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Overview
About the Linguistic Anthropology program
Students in Linguistic Anthropology at OU have unique research opportunities that extend beyond the classroom.
The Department of Native American Languages at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History offers students several research opportunities in Native languages of Oklahoma. The archives house over 6,000 media and print resources in languages of Oklahoma and North America. Students may use the recording facilities and equipment. They have the opportunity to participate in language programming at the museum, including the annual Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair and museum exhibits. The department has a two-year Graduate Research position for students in Linguistic Anthropology.
The Linguistic Anthropology program from University of Oklahomaparticular strengths lie in:
- Language endangerment and revitalization, with a collaborative approach to working in endangered language communities
- Ethnographic and discourse-centered approaches to language, culture, and society
- Verbal art and performance, including narrative, poetics, and ceremonial speaking
- Documentation and descriptive linguistics, and the role of language archives in this work
- Endangered language instruction and acquisition
- Language and identity
- Linguistic relativity (language and worldview)
- Language ideologies (cultural conceptions of language)
- Language contact and change
- Historical linguistics and grammaticalization
- Oklahoma and related Native languages and families, especially Athapaskan, Kiowa, Euchee (Yuchi), Siouan, Muskogean, and Algonquian
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Morphology
- Linguistic Anthropology
- Ethnography of Communication
- Professionalization in Anthropology
- Research for Master's Thesis
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 12 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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Language
English
IELTS 6.5
TOEFL® IBT 79
Credits
30 SCH
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Language Studies Languages Linguistics View 806 other Masters in Languages in United StatesAcademic requirements
GPA 3
GRE® Required
English requirements
IELTS 6.5
TOEFL® IBT 79
Other requirements
General requirements
- Current resume
- Three letters of recommendation
- A statement of your career and educational goals (1 to 1.5 pages, double-spaced)
- Official transcripts for all institutions attended
- International applicants must also submit an official TOEFL score and confidential financial statement
Tuition Fee
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International
19966 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 19966 USD per year during 12 months.
- Oklahoma Residents: $334.75 per credit
- Non-Residents: $334.75 per credit
Living costs for Norman
900 - 1400 USD /month
Living costs
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Financing
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