AILP students are able to take courses at the BA, MA, and PhD levels, leading to departmental certification in American Indian Languages. It accords equal academic status to both applied and theoretical linguistics. Unlike M.A. degrees in other linguistics departments, this degree is in itself a strong professional credential. These strengths, together with the theoretical and area expertise in the department, offer students a rare opportunity to combine practical and theoretical training in all areas of applied linguistics. Descriptive Linguistics Members of the Linguistics faculty are actively engaged in descriptive work on a wide variety of languages, especially American Indian languages.
Faculty publish regularly in leading journals of the field.
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