The
MA concentration in linguistics at NC State has gained a national
and international reputation as one of the outstanding sociolinguistic
programs in the nation. Within four years of its inception,
the program was cited in The Real Guide to Graduate School
(Lingua Franca, 1997) as one of the top five sociolinguistic
programs in North America. NC State is the only MA-level program
in the list, which includes well-established, longstanding PhD
programs in sociolinguistics such as the University of Pennsylvania
and Georgetown University.
The
graduate M.A. program requires 15 semester hours in linguistics
out of a 33 semester-hour requirement for a Master of Arts in
English and a research thesis.
