Degree: Doctor of Philosophy
School/College: Arts and Sciences
Department: Romance Languages
Program of Study or Area of Emphasis: Hispanic Linguistics
Total Hours Required for this Degree: 39

For the Ph.D. degree in Romance Languages with an area of emphasis in Hispanic Linguistics a minimum of 20 graduate courses (including those taken at the M.A. level), preliminary written and oral examinations, a dissertation, and an oral dissertation defense are required. The three preliminary written exams are three-hour exams, taken within a period of three weeks. One of these exams must be on Spanish Phonetics and Phonology, Spanish Morphology and Syntax, or Spanish Semantics and Pragmatics. The other two examination areas must be selected from among the previous three areas or the History of the Spanish Language, Spanish Dialectology, Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, or Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. Upon successful completion of the three area exams, the student will write a take-home exam consisting of two essay questions dealing with: a. the dissertation topic and the specific linguistic theory to be used in the dissertation, b. the general area of linguistics in which the dissertation topic falls, or c. an area of linguistic research directly related to the dissertation topic. Within three weeks of completion of the take-home exam, the student will take an oral exam based on the take-home exam. The hours of credit of ROML 8000 which may be taken at the Ph.D. level are limited to 6.

REQUIRED COURSES (24 HOURS)
Course Number		Course Title		Credit
		Choose eight courses from the list below:
SPAN (LING) 6350		Romance Linguistics: Theory and Analysis		3 hours
ROML(LING) 6350		Romance Linguistics: Theory and Analysis		3 hours
SPAN (LING) 6450		Variation and Sociolinguistics in Spanish		3 hours
SPAN (LING) 6550		History of the Spanish Language		3 hours
SPAN (LING) 6650		Spanish Phonetics and Phonology		3 hours
SPAN (LING) 6750		Spanish Syntax and Morphology		3 hours
SPAN (LING) 6850		Spanish Applied Linguistics		3 hours
SPAN (LING) 6950		Spanish Semantics and Pragmatics		3 hours
SPAN (LING) 7750		Teaching College Spanish		3 hours
SPAN (LING) 8010		Topics in Culture, Language, Linguistics, and Literature of the Spanish-Speaking World		3 hours
SPAN (LING) 8850		Spanish Second Language Acquisition		3 hours
DISSERTATION HOURS (3 HOURS)
Course Number		Course Title		Credit
ROML 9300		Doctoral Dissertation		3 hours
ELECTIVE COURSES (12 HOURS)
Course Number		Course Title		Credit
		Select from among graduate courses in Spanish (SPAN prefix), Linguistics (LING prefix), Romance Languages (ROML prefix), or other courses as approved by the Doctoral Advisory Committee.

FACULTY IN SPANISH LINGUISTICS

Complete faculty information can be found on our faculty research page.

Gary Baker (gkbaker@uga.edu) Ph.D., University of Florida, 2004, Academic Professional of Spanish and Assistant Director of the Language Resource Center. Spanish phonetics and phonology, historical language change, Spanish dialectology

Sarah Blackwell (blackwel@uga.edu) Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1994, Associate Professor of Spanish. Spanish pragmatics and semantics, conversation and discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and applied linguistics

Chad Howe (chowe@uga.edu) Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2006, Assistant Professor of Spanish. Sociolinguistics, semantics, and pragmatics

Margaret Lubbers Quesada (quesadam@uga.edu) Ph.D. Michigan State University, 1995, Associate Professor of Spanish, Director of the Language Resource Center. Spanish as a second/foreign language, corpus-based data analysis, language learning/teaching and technology

Teresa Pérez-Gamboa (perezt@uga.edu) Doctor of Arts, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1999, Academic Professional of Spanish and Spanish Language Coordinator. Foreign language pedagogy, Spanish and English phonetics

Diana L. Ranson (dranson@uga.edu) PhD, University of Michigan, 1986, Associate Professor of French and Spanish. Language change and variation in the Romance languages

Please do not hesitate to contact any faculty member listed above if you would like further information about our programs. For general questions on admissions procedures, please contact Dr. Catherine M. Jones, Graduate Coordinator, Department of Romance Languages.

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