{"id":21,"date":"2016-09-03T07:43:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T14:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/?p=21"},"modified":"2016-09-03T07:43:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T14:43:11","slug":"new-m-a-program-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/2016\/09\/03\/new-m-a-program-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"New M.A. Program Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The M.A. (<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/2016\/09\/03\/new-ph-d-program-requirements\/\">and Ph.D.<\/a>) requirements are being modified to reflect a better balance of depth and breadth in your graduate-level training. Here is the new plan, which we will be implementing as we can this year (2016W) and will be fully implementing next year (2017W).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">(Remember those <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/2016\/09\/03\/new-courses-for-2017w\/\">new courses<\/a> that are on the horizon? Be thinking about those, as you process this information.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Breadth requirement.<\/strong>\u00a0Complete at least 3 courses from the following list for a total of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">9 credits<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">LING 508 (Phonetics)<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">LING 510 (Phonology)<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">LING 520 (Syntax)<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">LING 525 (Semantics)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Methods requirement.<\/strong>\u00a0Complete LING 531 (Field Methods) and at least 3 credits of Linguistics methods\u00a0courses<span class=\"s1\">* for a total of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">6 credits<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Thesis. <\/strong>This is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">6 credits<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Choose your own adventure!<\/strong> An additional <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">9 credits<\/span> are to be chosen with approval from the supervisory committee; courses may\u00a0be from Linguistics or another appropriate department. This is where these new courses will be key.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">*These new methods courses do not exist at all yet! For the time being\u00a0students will have to take Ling 518 to complete this methods bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The M.A. (and Ph.D.) requirements are being modified to reflect a better balance of depth and breadth in your graduate-level training. Here is the new plan, which we will be implementing as we can this year (2016W) and will be fully implementing next year (2017W). (Remember those new courses that are on the horizon? Be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42839,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,1979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-ma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}