The nationally-ranked Linguistics program atGeorgetown University includes internationally renowned scholars in discourse analysis, language acquisition and pedagogy, linguistic theory, and natural language processing. Strong emphasis on excellence in teacher education.
Students usually attend while employed.
An ambitious curriculum of literary, cultural, and critical studies provides a variety of options encouraging students to shape their own programs. The curriculum is intended to provide a theoretical understanding of the structure of language and its social function, the process of language acquisition, and the relationship between language and beliefs, values, and culture. For students of French, German, and Spanish, the M.A. in Intercultural Communication provides an opportunity to combine graduate work in a language with studies in an appropriate related field. For non-native speakers of English, the U.S. Culture focus is an avenue for pursuing graduate studies dealing with specific aspects of U.S. culture, including the teaching of English as a second language. Viewing language as an integral part of social and cognitive development, we pay particular attention to the cultural and political contexts in which it occurs.