For decades, linguistics was taught as an undergraduate subject area in
Anthropology at Western, with a combined program in Linguistics and
Psychology. In the last fifteen years, several linguists joined the
Faculty of Arts and Humanities. This has led to a wealth of experience
and interest in linguistics as a cohesive discipline for which there is
significant student demand across disciplinary boundaries. The success
of the recently created undergraduate program in linguistics at UWO
confirms the strength of the discipline at the University of Western
Ontario. Through the enthusiastic and effective participation of
linguists on campus we have been able to obtain a Canada Research Chair
in Linguistics and a state-of-the-art research facility for linguistics
(the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Laboratory). The
objective of the MA program in linguistics is to foster scholarship and
research in the discipline, both for students who are planning on
continuing with a PhD program in linguistics and for those who will be
seeking professional work in a range of fields (such as education,
communicative disorders, speech technologies, or elsewhere) for which a
background in linguistics is either required or very useful. Our diverse faculty,
made up of researchers from various fields (including Anthropology,
Computer Science, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Education,
French Studies, Modern Languages and Literatures, Philosophy and
Psychology) will offer students direct training in current research
methods from a wide range of theoretical and empirical perspectives,
enabling them to undertake independent research of their own in
linguistics.Program Overview
Linguistics at Western
Objectives of the Program
Western Linguistics
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