Deadlines: Plan of Study - End of first year (May)

For students entering fall 2007 or later, the following courses are required:

Core Courses: 21 credits
a. All of:	301 Semantics I; 308 Phonology I; 321 Syntax I; 323 Acquisition of Syntax
b. At least three of:	301 Semantics II; 308 Phonology II; 321 Syntax II; 333 Readings and Research in Acquisition
General Workshop: 3 credits
411	1 credit in spring of second year
	2 credits in fall of third year
Electives: 22 credits
	At most 6 credits can be LING 304 “Examination of…” (see section 3.3 for policy on LING 304 and Audit)
Total: 46 credits

 

In addition, all students are required to register for a total of 15 credits of GRAD 495 – Dissertation Research. These credits do not count towards course credits.
While the above table lists the minimum departmental requirements, it is expected that students will ordinarily take all four of the Core Courses in both semesters of the first year.
Students proposing an experimental study for either general examination (see below) are also required to take Linguistics 332 (Experimental Methods) in the fall semester of their second year. This course counts towards the 22 credits of electives.

Graduate School forms – http://www.grad.uconn.edu/forms.html

• Plan of Study
• Request for Changes in the Plan of Study

(1) LING 304 (Investigation of Special Topics) is our course number for independent study at the graduate level. When registering for LING 304, the student can give it a more specific title to reflect the topic of study. This is accomplished by submitting an ‘Independent Study Authorization’ card, available from the Linguistics Department Office. The card requires signatures from the instructor and department head, and then needs to be delivered to the Graduate School for processing. (The Graduate School will take care of registering the student for LING 304; there is no need to register for it through the PeopleSoft system.)

(2) Up to 6 credits of LING 304 can be included in a student’s Plan of Study and applied to the Department’s course-credit requirement for the Ph.D. When LING 304 is used in this way, it should be given a title that includes the word EXAMINATION (e.g. ‘Examination of wh-in-situ’).

(3) An exception to (2) is when LING 304 is used to give credit for a course taken at another university. In this case, LING 304 is counted as a regular course for purposes of the Ph.D. requirements, and the title should include the word COURSE.

(4) Any number of additional credits for LING 304, not counted towards the Ph.D. course-credit requirement, is permitted. In particular, when a student has regular meetings with a supervisor, he or she should register for one credit of LING 304 for each hour of weekly meeting time.

(5) When the student is auditing a course, the University’s registration status of ‘Audit’ is the preferred option, but students should not register as auditors if they wish to take the same course later for credit. Instead they should consult with the instructor and register for 1 to 3 credits of LING 304, depending on the amount of the regular coursework that they will be completing.

(6) The Registrar imposes a limit on the number of times a student can register for LING 304, but this limit can be raised. In the event of a problem, the student should contact the Director of Graduate Studies.

Note:  Although it is possible to register for LING 304 on PeopleSoft, in order to have the title properly noted in the system (needed to count towards credit requirement), there is still a paper form that needs to be filled out – available in main office.

A typical course package (for a student entering in 2007) might follow the following sequence (this is an illustration, individual plans may vary):

Courses are 3 credits except as noted; required courses in boldface

	Fall	Spring	Credit
Year 1	301 Semantics I 308 Phonology I 321 Syntax I 323 Acquisition of Syntax	370 Semantics II 309 Phonology II 322 Syntax II 333 R&R Acquisition	24
Year 2	2 courses such as (or others): 324 R&R Syntax 327 Comparative Syntax 332 Experimental Methods 341 Morphology 372 Topics in Semantics	411 Gen Wkshp (1 credit) 2 seminar or topics courses work on 1st generals paper	+13 =37
Year 3	411 Gen Wkshp (2 credit) 2 seminar or topics courses complete 1st generals, start 2nd	412 Prof. Meth (1 credit) 1 seminar complete 2nd generals	+12 =49
Year 4	GRAD 495 (6 credit)	GRAD 495
Year 5	GRAD 495	GRAD 495