Those in the linguistic track receive an education grounded in all areas of anthropology with expanded training in the current theories and methods of linguistic anthropology. Course work covers both anthropological approaches to the field as well as formal linguistic training. Students may choose to broaden their studies with relevant courses in Computer Science, English, Foreign Language and Literature, History, Linguistics, Psychology, Communication Disorders, Speech Communication, and Women s Studies. Students have the opportunity to hone their skills as teaching assistants in the undergraduate linguistic anthropology course with its hands-on lab component. We offer a graduate program in biological anthropology, but this program is in transition as we are in the process of making a tenure-track hire in that area in time for Fall Semester 2001.
All students participate in fieldwork.
Students complete the program ready for work in applied linguistic settings or Ph.D. study. Support, in the form of departmental teaching and research assistantships, is awarded on a competitive basis. Exposure to or skill in a foreign languages important both as a cross-cultural experience and also for access to the results of research published in other languages. The graduate level statistics course provides analytical skills that are useful not only in research but also in achieving critical understanding of others' work. Writing is an essential means of communicating our research findings to an increasingly wide and diverse audience.