Master in Linguistics
Program Description
This academic program is structured to achieve a master’s degree in linguistics. It is composed by two specializations: Spanish Language Sociolinguistics in America (SEA) and English Language Learning Theory (TALi).
Overall Objective:
Contributing to the preparation of human and academic resources. This process is issued from a standpoint that combines the problems with the potentials of human language to contribute in the fields of education and research.
Specific Objectives:
• Proportioning a solid basis in areas related to the study of language structure and functioning, in a personal-level as well as social-level.
• Providing a wide overview on methodologies and analytic strategies to solve linguistic problems.
• Promoting research on linguistics in order to create interdisciplinary projects for the development of the country.
Graduate Skills:
• To be capable of creating teams destined to research projects or applied linguistics interventions.
• To be capable of displaying and transmitting linguistic knowledge on different levels and situations. Particularly in different types of spoken and written contexts, such as bibliographic reviews, presentations, and articles.
• To incorporate the current disciplinary knowledge on social and teaching problems resolution in different contexts.
• To be capable of coming up with new solutions to language-related problems and how they are connected to society and culture. A skill issued from a standpoint that emphasizes dedication and solidarity.
Duration:
This program is comprised of 5 semesters, half-time. 34 TEL credits and 75 SCT-Chile credits. ¿What are SCT-Chile Credits?
Accreditation:
The program is accredited for 5 years. November 2017 - November 2022.
Contact:
Head of the Program:
Dr. Domingo Román Montes de Oca
Secretary:
Constanza Moreno Alou
Common courses are focused on research. There are a total of 5 courses, including Specialization Seminar and thesis.
Speciality courses deepen the knowledge on the chosen field. There are a total of 4 courses.
During the first semester, the students can update or complement their undergraduate formation through optional courses focused on issues relevant to the development of the discipline with a meticulous review related to the field of interest.
Study Plan for each speciality and list of courses
SEA Study Plan
TALi Study Plan
List of courses
Research Methodology in Linguistics
Credits: TEL: 4, SCT: 9
OCDE Area: 6
Semester: 1
Requirements: Inscription
Category: Compulsory
General Optional Course (Download programs: Subjetividad en el... / Analisis funcional... )
Credits: TEL: 4; SCT: 6
OCDE Area: 6
Semester: 1
Requirements: Inscription
Category: Optional
Discourse Analysis (download program)
Credits: TEL : 4; SCT: 8
OCDE Area: 6
Semester: 2
Requirements: Research Methodology in Linguistics
Category: Compulsory
Spanish Language Sociolinguistics in America
SEA Speciality
Credits: TEL: 4; SCT: 7
OCDE Area: 6
Semester: 2
Requirements: Research Methodology in Linguistics
Category: Compulsory
Learning Theory (download program)
TALi Speciality
Credits: TEL: 4; SCT: 7
OCDE Area: 6
Semester: 2
Requirements: Research Methodology in Linguistics
Category: Compulsory
Morphosyntactic and Textual Spanish Modelling (download program)
SEA Speciality
Credits: TEL: 4; SCT: 7
OCDE Area: 6
Semester: 3
Requirements: Research Methodology in Linguistics
Category: Compulsory
Spanish Language Phonetics and Phonology (download program)
SEA Speciality
Credits: TEL: 4; SCT: 7
OCDE Area: 6
Semester: 3
Requirements: Research Methodology in Linguistics
Category: Compulsory
Morphosyntactic and Textual English Modelling (download program)
TALi Speciality
Credits: TEL: 4; SCT: 7
OCDE Area: 6
Semester: 3
Requirements: Research Methodology in Linguistics
Category: Compulsory
English Language Phonetics and Phonology
TALi Speciality
Credits: TEL: 4; SCT: 7
OCDE Area: 6
Semester: 3
Requirements: Research Methodology in Linguistics
Category: Compulsory
Specialization Seminar
SEA Speciality
Credits: TEL: 4; SCT: 9
OCDE Area: 6
Semestre: 4
Requirements: 44 SCT Credits
Category: Compulsory
Specialization Optional Course
SEA Speciality
Credits: TEL: 4; SCT: 7
OCDE Area: 6
Semester: 4
Requirements: 30 SCT Credits
Category: Optional
Specialization Seminar
TALi Speciality
Credits: TEL: 4; SCT: 9
OCDE Area: 6
Semestre: 4
Requirements: 44 SCT Credits
Category: Compulsory
Specialitazion Optional Course
TALi Speciality
Credits: TEL : 4; SCT: 7
OCDE Area: 6
Semester: 4
Requirements: 30 SCT Credits
Category: Optional
Degree Thesis (regarding format and other aspects)
Credits: TEL 4 SCT 15
OCDE Area: 6
Semester: 5
Requirements: Specialization Seminar
Category: Compulsory
Resolution for the current study plan.
Anyone interested in postulating to the program should consider the following matters:
Documentation
- Professional degree or title legalized by a notary.
- Higher education Transcript.
- Two recommendations from academics specialized in the discipline.
- Resumee.
- Birth Certificate.
- Application letter addressed to the Head of the Program.
- Online application form in the Postgraduate Direction web site. Please, send it as an application for admission and attach the previously mentioned documents. The program will conduct a pre-selection based in those precedents.
Interview
The preselected applicants will participate in an interview with academics from the program, in which the applicants can give more relevant information about their backgrouos.
English Language Proficiency
- English Language Learning Theory (TALi) applicants must undertake a writing test in which they have to write an academic essay in English.
- The Spanish Language Sociolinguistics in America (SEA) applicants must answer an English comprehension test in Spanish.
Application Dates
Documentation from applicants can be submitted each year from July to November.
Program Committee: Dr. Miguel Farías, Dr. Roxana Orrego, Dr. Domingo Román, Dr. Manuel Rubio.
Associate Professors:
Claudio Araya. SEA Academic. Language & Communication Teacher (Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Chile). Master’s degree in Linguistics with mention in Spanish Language Sociolinguistics in America (Universidad de Santiago de Chile).
Eduardo Araya. SEA Academic. Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics & Literature (Universidad Católica, Chile). Master’s degree in Linguistics (Universidad de Santiago de Chile).
Carlos Álvarez. TALi Academic. English teacher (Universidad de Playa Ancha, Valparaíso). Master’s degree in Linguistics with mention in English Language (Universidad de Chile).
Wilfredo Quezada. PhD in Philosophy. General Philosophy of Science expert.
Rosa María Gutiérrez. PhD in Linguistics. Systemic-Functional Linguistics expert.
The virtualization team is responsible of supporting the virtualization process in every program from the faculty. It is composed of a multidisciplinary team comprised by lecturers and instructional and graphic designers.
This team oversees the creation of strategies to assist lecturers in the virtualization of their courses by distributing support material, providing virtualization training activities and coordinating training instances to further improve virtual teaching directed towards the lecturers from the faculty.
If you are interested in participating in any training activity, notify your Program Director to contact with the academic coordinator from the project: Gisela Watson: gisela.watson@usach.cl
If you have any inquire regarding the use of moodle or the virtualization team, please contact instructional designer Vivien Valenzuela: vivien.valenzuela@usach.cl. Vivien and Camila Berríos will aid you.
If you have participated in any training activities and need help with the creation of audiovisual and interactive digital resource, please contact graphic designer Macarena Saguer: macarena.saguer@usach.cl
Published on August 21st: Our student Loreto Aguilera exposed at the First International Meeting of Oral and Written Discourse Analysis Research Group (GIADI), organized by the Autonomous University of Querétaro. Her presentation was related to the current state of her thesis: Vowel elements in Chilean Spanish: Perceptual discrimination and influence in vowel recognition.
Published on June 30th: Invitation by the master's degree program from Universidad de Chile. Colloquiums and discussion groups on linguistic diversity, rights and politics in the new Constitution.
Published on June 30th: On May 28th, Isaías Reyes successfully defended his thesis: Conveying meaning through Suprasegmentals. A comparative study on the use of Suprasegmentals between Chilean EFL teachers of higher education and English Native speakers when producing structurally ambiguous sentences. Supervised by Dr. Domingo Román. Evaluated by Dr. Raquel Rubio and Dr. Miguel Farías.
PPublished on May 27th. Today, Constanza Quintero successfully defended her thesis: A multilingual learner's complex and dynamic metacognitive system examined through the reconstruction of his language learning history: a single case study from a socio-cognitive ecological perspective. The examination phase was carried out by an international evaluation team composed of: Dra. Tammy Gregersen (American University of Sharjah) and Dr. Paul Abraham (Simmons University). The research was supervised by Dr. Miguel Farías (USACH). Constanza Quintero passed with top score and there was a complete consensus on the excellent quality of both her presentation and research work. Defense video.
Published on May 24th: Webinar The meaning of being a woman: the discourse of women from the Chilean University Feminist Movement in 2018 by Dr. Andrea Franulic. Tuesday, 25 May at 18:30. Via Zoom. Video.
Published on April 28th. Welcome Speech by the Program Director. Read more.
