Resources for Graduate Students

• A new PhD handbook is now available to view on the PhD Resources page. It incorporates all the program updates that were made in the 2024-2025 academic year.
• We've reevaluated the PhD course requirements to ensure our students are devloping a reasonably substantial breadth and depth in our program. These new course requirements apply to all PhD students admitted in Fall 2025 and onward.
• The department is excited to introduce newly structured course sequences in syntax, sound, and morphology, which involved renaming existing courses, as well as creating a range of new courses that will begin being offered in Fall 2025. A few of these new courses include: Statistical Methods in Linguistics, Languages of Africa, Phonetics, Phonology, Topics in Sociolinguistics, and Prosody.
• We’ve clarified our policy on testing out of foundational courses—highlighting that exceptions are rare and must be earned through demonstrated, substantial expertise. Students testing out of a course must still complete an equivalent or more advanced course in that subfield to satisfy the foundational requirement. Additionally, PhD candidacy now follows the successful defense of the second qualifying paper.

For a full and updated list of linguistics courses, reference our most recent course catalog for the 2025-2026 academic year.

While we try to maintain a consistent course offering pattern, due to faculty leaves, enrollment numbers, and curricular changes, we can't always accomodate this. Use the links below to check out the courses that are currently beging offered and our course offering history.