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Our Linguistics Department offers Undergraduate and Graduate programmes. Our students have gone on to careers in many areas including Audiology, ESL, Teaching, Linguistics Research and Language Preservation.

Our department offers four different undergraduate programs in Linguistics, as well as M.A. and Ph.D. graduate programs. Although all the programs are based on the same core set of introductory courses, each program is designed to serve the different needs of students and subject areas and thus involves a different set of requirements.

Undergraduate

There are over thirty undergraduate linguistics majors students enrolled in our department., and more than 100 students are currently enrolled to take one or more linguistics courses.

Read about our programs listed on the left-hand column.

Read our undergrad FAQ page for answers and additional information on our course offerings.

Graduate

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Victoria provides an academic home to 30-35 graduate students researching grammatical topics in a variety of indigenous languages of North America and the Pacific Rim, as well as topics in applied linguistics, articulatory and acoustic phonetics, and sociolinguistics. Because the Department encourages a close working relationship between students and their supervisors, the Department is best able to accommodate students whose research interests correspond closely to those of their potential graduate supervisor.

Applicants should have a significant background in Linguistics before admission; for the Master's program, a Bachelor's degree in Linguistics or a related field (with linguistic specialization) and for the PhD program, a Master's degree in Linguistics. Students without this background can sometimes be admitted in special circumstances. In this case, the student's program is augmented with undergraduate coursework.

Applicants for Graduate Studies at the University of Victoria send their application forms and supporting documents to the Office of Graduate Admissions and Records, Faculty of Graduate Studies. This office then forwards the material to the department for adjudication.

The application forms can be downloaded from the university's websites or sent by mail.

There are a limited number of financial awards available for entering students. To meet Linguistics Department deadlines for consideration for financial awards, application materials must be received at the Office of Graduate Admissions and Records by 15 January, or 15 December for International students.