Degrees

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Completion:

The Master's degree program in Linguistics must be completed within minimum and maximum time limits of 12 and 30 months, respectively. The Doctorate's degree program in Linguistics must be completed within minimum and maximum time limits of 24 and 54 months, respectively. In the case of scholarship students, the maximum period will be reduced in accordance with the commitments made with the supporting agencies (CAPES, CNPq, FAPESP).

MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAM IN LINGUISTICS

The activities of the Master's Degree Program in Linguistics are divided into two curricular components, in addition to the thesis: a required component and an elective component.
1. The required component must be completed through a minimum number of two courses related to the area of research in which the student will develop his/her thesis.
2. The elective component must be completed through the fulfillment of a minimum of three courses, as authorized by the advisor. The credits of the elective component must be obtained from courses of the same area or sub-area of research in which the Thesis will be developed. One of the courses of this component can be attended in other Graduate Programs – provided they are outstanding Programs - upon the Linguistic Program director's authorization and his/her advisor, taking into consideration the relevance of the course to the thesis.

Requirements for Obtaining the Master's Degree

To obtain the Master's degree, the student regularly enrolled in the Master's Degree Program in Linguistics must successfully complete the total of credits required and meet the following requirements:
1. Demonstrate mastery of reading skills in English
2. Successfully complete the credits in the courses of the required component
3. Successfully complete the credits in the courses of the elective component
4. Be approved in his/her Qualifier
5. Have his/her Master's Thesis approved.

Master's Supervision and Thesis

The student must choose a thesis advisor and, under his/her supervision, he/she will develop a thesis about the topic in the research area in which he/she completed the credits of the required component.

The Qualifier

After having successfully completed at least one academic semester and presented his/her thesis plan, the candidate must take the qualifier exam that will cover the content of the thesis project and will be evaluated by the Board of Examiners comprising (3) three members, one of whom must be his/her advisor.

Thesis Defense

The candidate must defend his/her thesis before the Board of Examiners according to Unicamp's General Rules of the Graduate Program Courses.

DOCTORATE'S DEGREE PROGRAM IN LINGUISTICS

The Doctorate's degree Program in Linguistics provides guidance as to more advanced specialization studies. As a result, students must choose the credits in courses which are aligned with the interests of his/her education and research to the degree they are applicable to their dissertation.

Requirements for Obtaining the Doctorate's Degree

To obtain the Doctorate's Degree in Linguistics, the student must fulfill a total of credits required and meet the following requirements:
1. After enrolling in the course, the student must complete a minimum of 4 courses, in which one of them may be the Thematic Seminar, but none of them in LL406 - Supervised Individual Reading. One of the courses may be completed in other Graduate Programs, provided they are outstanding, upon the Linguistic Program director’s  and the student's advisor's authorization, based on the relevance of such courses to the dissertation.
2. Be approved in the Qualifier Exams;
3. Demonstrate mastery of reading skills in two foreign languages, one of which must be English;
4 Have his/her Doctorate's Dissertation approved.

Doctorate's Supervision and Dissertation

The student will choose an advisor for the Dissertation and, under his/her supervision, will prepare a Study plan establishing the courses he/she must attend, develop a Research Plan, and prepare its Doctorate's Dissertation.

Qualifier Exams

The Qualifiers for the Doctorate's Degree Program is applied in two modalities:
a) General Qualifier (or Area Qualifier), conducted in another area or sub-area which must be different from that of the dissertation, chosen in agreement with the advisor.
b) The Dissertation Qualifier will include the content of the student's dissertation.
The general qualifier, applied under the supervision of a faculty member from the selected area, will consist of the development and publication of a text with characteristics of a paper worth publishing in a relevant journal.

In order take the General Qualifier, the doctoral student must:
     - Define one of the fields of the 05 major research areas of the Program, one which is necessarily different from that in which he/she develops his/her dissertation;
     - Choose a faculty member to supervise the paper and submit  to him/her the text to be qualified.

After the text has been approved by the faculty member supervising the work, he/she will appoint the qualification board members. The qualification board consists of a chair, the one who is supervising the work, and two PhD professors that may or may not be a member of the PGLL program. The two members of the board must communicate their evaluation to the chair  by means of a review of the paper.
The doctoral student has the responsibility of informing the PPGL of the date when the qualifier took place, the title of the paper to be qualified, the members of the board, as well as submitting copies of the  paper to the board members.
If the doctoral student wishes to obtain his General Qualifier from a Program other than the PPGL, he/she must:
- Request, in writing, an authorization from the PPGL describing the area, the institution and the board members and attach a letter signed by the advisor justifying such a choice.
The text produced will be evaluated by a board comprising the advisor and two other faculty members, who will be responsible for rendering an informed decision about the paper.
The paper should be analyzed and  reviewed by the board within a minimum period of six months prior to  the date scheduled for the defense of the dissertation.
 

The Dissertation Qualifier will be taken before a Board of Examiners comprising (3) three faculty members, one of whom must be his/her advisor.

Dissertation Defense

The candidate must defend his/her dissertation before a Board of Examiners according to Unicamp's General Rules of the Graduate Program Courses.

Foreign Language Proficiency

The enrollment in the Master's or Doctorate's Degree programs requires that the student pass a reading comprehension test in English, for the Master’s, and English or French, for the Doctorate’s, according to the candidate's choice.
During the course, the doctoral student must demonstrate his/her proficiency in a second foreign language. Spanish will not be accepted as an option to meet the foreign language-related requirement, because it is assumed that Portuguese speaking candidates already master technical reading skills in Spanish.

Portuguese Proficiency

Non-Portuguese-speaking candidates must demonstrate Portuguese proficiency in written and oral skills by taking a proper test during the admission process (or by presenting the CELPE-BRAS certificate).

 

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