Program

Graduate Program Requirement

Course Requirements: M.A. degree candidates should complete a minimum of 40 credits, of which 13 are of required courses and 27 are of elective courses in linguistics.

Graduate Student Courses: 2003 FJU Bulletin

Required Courses (13 credits)
1.Syntax (3 credits)
2.Phonology (3 credits)
3.Semantics (3 credits )
4.M.A. Thesis (4 credits)

Elective Course (27 minimum credits)

Core Courses of Linguistics
I. Linguistics Proper

A. Structural Linguistics
1. Articulatory Phonetics
2. Acoustic Phonetics
3. Phonology
4. Syntax
5. Semantics
6. Pragmatics
7. Linguistic Analysis
8. Discourse Analysis

B. Chinese Linguistics
1. Chinese Linguistics
2. Mandarin Grammar
3. Chinese Phonology
4. Chinese Morphology and Syntax
5. History of Chinese Linguistics: Syntax
6. History of Chinese Linguistics: Phonology
7. Taiwanese Syntax
8. Taiwanese Phonetics and Phonology
9. Hakka Linguistics

C. Biolinguistcs
1. Biolinguistics
2. Psycholinguistics
3. Neurolinguistics
4. History of Neurolinguistics
5. Speech and Hearing Science
6. Language Development and Acquisition
7. Speech and Language Pathology
8. Clinical Linguistics
9. Language Processing

D. Sociolinguistics
1. Sociolinguistics
2. Anthropological Linguistics
3. Discourse Analysis
4. Language Interaction in Society
5. Dialectology6. Language and Culture
7. Language Science and Evaluation

II. Interdisciplinary Studies

A. Language and Education
1. Applied Linguistics
2. Teaching English as a Foreign Language
3. Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
4. Methods of Language Teaching: Theory and Practice
5. Computer-assisted Language Instruction
6. Computer-assisted Languistic Research

B. Linguistics and Translation
1. Translation: Theory and Practice
2. Linguistic Applications in Translation

C. Linguistics and Literature
1. Linguistic Approach to Literary Criticism
2. Linguistic Study of Poetry

D. Multimedia Communication
1. Media Information Processing
2. Cross Modal Information Processing

E. Long Distance Communication
1. Internet Communication
2. Proxemics and Negotiation

F. Linguistics and Performing Arts
1. Performing Arts and Communication
2. Cultural Semiotics
3. Language and Music

III. Special Seminars
1. Seminar in Linguistics Theory: Phonology
2. Seminar in Linguistics Theory: Syntax
3. Topics in Syntax
4. Topics in Pragmatics
5. Topics in Semantics
6. Topics in Psycholinguistics
7. Topics in Sociolinguistics
8. Historical Linguistics
9. History of Linguistics
10. History of the English Language
11. Philosophy of Language
12. Language Typology
13. Linguistic Fieldwork
14. Contrastive Linguistics
15. Formosan Languages: Investigation and Analysis
16. Topics in Formosan Languages
17. Austronesian Linguistics
18. Lexicography
19. M.A. Thesis

N.B.
1. Tool course : 2 credit; 2 hours.
2. Other course : 2 credits; 2 hours, 3redits; 3 hours.
3. All of them are semester courses.