Advising
for Graduate Students
Graduate programs
typically do not have specific language requirements which require the
mastery of a PAAL language. Though a graduate student may find knowledge
of a PAAL language useful for fieldwork even if at the beginner or intermediate
level of study, graduate programs traditionally do not support or encourage
graduate students enrolling in 100 and 200-level courses for credit.
Where a graduate
student wishes to embark on the curriculum of a PAAL language program's
100 and 200-level offerings, the student is encouraged to register under
the rubric of the 410 "advanced study." The student is placed
at the appropriate level of study, and usually follows the curriculum
of that course in the same way as the undergraduates who are registered
within it. All PAAL languages offer the 410-1,2,3 option for all courses
and levels; specific courses are linked to the instructor by a system
of section numbers--each instructor has a designated 410 section number.
In the Department
of Linguistics, one requirement is the "demonstration of advanced
proficiency in one non-English language and intermediate proficiency
in another non-English language (department assumes native or near-native
proficiency in English); choice of languages must meet department guidelines
of language diversity; in some cases, one additional course, for example,
LING 319 or LING 320, may be required to extend student's language experience."
Linguistics grads often find that they are advised, based on the requirement
of language diversity to gain intermediate proficiency in a non-western
language, "intermediate" here suggesting the equivalent of
two years of classroom study.
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