New courses in Language Endangerment at Monash University

[Margaret Florey]

Announcement
New courses in Language Endangerment at Monash University

A number of new postgraduate courses in Language Endangerment Studies
will commence in the Monash University Linguistics Program in 2006.

The courses are designed for people who are involved in, or aspire to
become  involved in work with minority endangered language groups. They
offer professional development at four levels, ranging from a Masters in
Linguistics to a Postgraduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate.
Interested applicants who have not completed high school may commence
study at Faculty Certificate level. Students in Language Endangerment
are required to be affiliated (or develop an affiliation) with a
language community or organisation which is engaged in language
maintenance. The newly developed units in each course aim to provide
linguists, language maintenance practitioners and speakers of minority
languages with specialist training in both the theoretical and applied
aspects of language documentation and language maintenance for
endangered languages in the particular social and political contexts in
which they are spoken.

Australian and international applicants are welcome to apply. The
courses can be taken full-time or part-time, either on campus or
off-campus by distance education via web based study.

Further information is available on the website at
<http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ling/pglangen/> or by contacting Margaret
Florey (the Course Coordinator) by email at
<Margaret.Florey at arts.monash.edu.au> or by phone on +61 (0)3 9905-2237.

Please bring these courses to the attention of appropriate people.

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Dr Margaret Florey
Senior Lecturer
Linguistics Program
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Monash University
Victoria 3800
Australia
Tel: +61 (0)3 9905-2237
Fax: +61 (0)3 9905-5437
Email: Margaret.Florey at arts.monash.edu.au
Home page: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ling/mf2.html

Maluku Endangered Languages Project
Email: Maluku at arts.monash.edu.au
Fax: +61 (0)3 9905-8492