The graduate diploma (GDip) in Linguistics is unique and will appeal to current Carleton graduate students interested in interface linguistics. It is open to both PhD and Master’s students from disciplines other than linguistics and will allow them to incorporate the study of linguistics into their primary program. At this time, it is designed primarily for students pursuing Carleton degrees in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies, Cognitive Science, Anthropology, French and English. The program culminates with a Capstone Examination which ensures students have acquired the same level of linguistics knowledge as graduates from the MA.


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Admission Requirements

Undergraduate or graduate coursework in linguistics or related fields, and concurrent enrolment in a graduate program such as Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies, Anthropology, Cognitive Science, English or French.  For more information Lev Blumenfeld or Beth MacLeod.

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Program Requirements (2.5 credits)

0.5 credit from:

  • LING 5007 [0.5] Phonology
  • LING 5077 [0.5] Phonetics

0.5 credit from:

  • LING 5004 [0.5] Syntax
  • LING 5005 [0.5] Morphology
  • LING 5505 [0.5] Semantics

0.5 credit from:

  • LING 5004 [0.5] Syntax
  • LING 5005 [0.5] Morphology
  • LING 5007 [0.5] Phonology
  • LING 5077 [0.5] Phonetics
  • LING 5505 [0.5] Semantics

1.0 credit from any 5000-level LING course, or chosen from the following list:

  • ALDS 5102 [0.5] Systemic-Functional Linguistics
  • ALDS 5207 [0.5] Pedagogical Grammar
  • ALDS 5301 [0.5] Language and Cognition
  • ALDS 5302 [0.5] Second Language Acquisition
  • ALDS 5303 [0.5] Linguistic Analysis, Culture & Cognition
  • ALDS 5407 [0.5] Language Policy and Planning
  • ANTH 5106 [0.5] North American Indigenous Peoples
  • ANTH 5107 [0.5] Issues in North American Ethnohistory
  • ANTH 5208 [0.5] Indigeneity
  • ANTH 5210 [0.5] Special Topics in Indigenous Studies
  • ANTH 5305 [0.5] Special Topics in Ethnography
  • ANTH 5906 [0.5] Field Work
  • CGSC 5002 [0.5] Experimental Research in Cognition
  • CGSC 5003 [0.5] Cognition and Language
  • CGSC 5005 [0.5] Cognition and Neuroscience
  • CGSC 5101 [0.5] Experimental Methods and Statistics
  • CGSC 5103 [0.5] Formal Methods
  • CGSC 5303 [0.5] Linguistic Analysis, Culture & Cognition
  • ENGL 5207 [0.5] Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature
  • ENGL 5208 [0.5] Studies in Middle English Literature
  • ENGL 5303 [0.5] Studies in Early Modern Literature I
  • ENGL 5305 [0.5] Studies in Early Modern Literature II
  • FREN 5001 [0.5] Théories linguistiques françaises
  • FREN 5002 [0.5] Linguistique du français I
  • FREN 5003 [0.5] Linguistique du français II
  • FREN 5004 [0.5] Linguistique du français canadien
  • FREN 5100 [0.5] Le monde francophone: linguistique et litérature
  • FREN 5200 [0.5] Aspects linguistiques particulier
  • FREN 5300 [0.5] Métholodogie de la recherché

0.0 credits in:

  • LING 5907 [0.0] Graduate Diploma Capstone Examination