30.3837, Support: German; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Germanic Linguistics: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

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Subject: 30.3837, Support: 	German; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Germanic Linguistics: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 21:23:48
From: Irmengard Rauch [irauch at berkeley.edu]
Subject: German; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Germanic Linguistics: PhD, University of California, Berkeley, USA

 Institution/Organization: University of California, Berkeley 
Department: German 
Web Address: https://german.berkeley.edu/graduate/overview/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Teaching
 
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics 
Germanic Linguistics 
Required Language(s): German (deu)

Description:

Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Specialization 

Applications for the academic year 2020–2021 are due by December 16, 2019. For
information contact Thomas Shannon (tshannon at berkeley.edu) and/or Irmengard
Rauch (irauch at berkeley.edu)

Germanic Linguistics Specialization: An Overview
Throughout its history the UC Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Specialization has
been characterized by its trend-setting, forward-looking perspective. Thus,
its inclusion in the early 20th century of research of California’s American
Indian languages and of the first written grammar of Pashto. American
Semiotics with its inherent multi-disciplinary foci was brought to the Western
US through Berkeley’s Germanic Linguistics curriculum and its hosting of the
first California meeting of the SSA, followed by its hosting of the 700
persons from 50 countries Fifth Congress of the IASS in 1994. At that time
Dutch linguistics courses were established under the Germanic Linguistics
Specialization. Interdisciplinary outreach to other Germanic and non-Germanic
languages/cultures remains one of its hallmarks.

Pathway to Jobs, Placement
The field of Germanistics is well founded as a discipline which includes the
hallmark scientific rigor provided by the Germanic Linguistics Specialization.
Aware of the STEM goals, it imbues the Humanities with a scientific component
that offers unique skills and tools for job placement. Given today’s evolving
and changing job market, the Germanic Linguistics Specialization prepares and
equips students for employment not only in Academia, but also in non-Academic
positions, such as hi-tech, business, publishing. Germanic Linguistics 49
Ph.D. Placement statistics since 1982: Academe 33; Entrepreneurs 9;
IT/Computer Firms 5; Law 1: US Government 1.

Course Offerings, Theoretical and Applied
Nineteen course offerings, including the open topic German 290 Seminar in
German Linguistics, comprise the interdisciplinary Germanic Linguistics
Specialization. It offers a broad range of courses in contemporary German and
its dialects, in the historical Germanic languages, e.g., Gothic, Old Saxon,
among others, and in the methods of German and Germanic linguistics, subsuming
recent directions in theoretical and applied approaches such as cognitive
models, corpus linguistics, natural language processing, semiotics, and
literary studies, teaching techniques as well as in anthropological and
sociological approaches which seek the cultural and social impetus for given
changes as ongoing, for example, in the language of gender, age, ethnicity.
The Bay Area German Project (BAG) offers the methods of linguistic fieldwork
and socio-cultural, anthropological analysis of German as it is spoken by
native and first-generation German speakers in the Bay Area

Public Forums
Participation in the biennial Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable,
meeting since 1990, and in the annual Semiotic Circle of California, meeting
since 1985, affords students forums to present their linguistic and/or
semiotic research, and to initiate global professional contacts.

Student Funding
See https://german.berkeley.edu/graduate/fellowships-support/
 

Application Deadline: 16-Dec-2019 

Web Address for Applications: https://grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/apply/ 

Contact Information: 
	Irmengard Rauch 
	irauch at berkeley.edu  


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