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1) Subject:New Ph.D. program at UofA

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Date: 02 Jan 2006
From:farwaneh at email.arizona.edu
Subject:New Ph.D. program at UofA

Dear Colleagues,

In addition to the SLAT Program Martha Schulte has announced in an  
earlier
message, the Department of Near Eastern Studies is currently working on
developing a Ph. D. track in the linguistics of Near Eastern  
Languages in
collaboration with our colleagues in the Linguistics Department. Please
circulate this announcement to students who you believe are  
interested and
qualified. Applications for admission and financial aid (two separate
forms) may be obtained from Jennifer Columbus at (520) 621-8013 or
<jennife2 at email.arizona.edu>. We offer teaching assistantships in  
Arabic,
Persian and Turkish; requests for assistantships in Hebrew will be  
directed
to the Judaic Studies Program. Students may also apply for a FLAS
fellowship from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies to strengthen  
their
focus language, or satisfy the requirement for a second Middle Eastern
language. Please check CMES's website at www.cmes.arizona.edu.  
Deadline for
FLAS applications is February 7.


The Department of Near Eastern Studies is pleased to announce a new  
Ph. D.
program in the Linguistics of Near Eastern Languages to begin fall  
2006. We
invite qualified students to apply by February 7, 2006. Below is a
preliminary proposal to be finalized in January, prior to our Academic
program review in February. For questions or additional information,  
please
contact me at <farwaneh at email.arizona.edu> or call (520) 621-8629.

1. General Description

The Ph.D. program in the linguistics of Middle Eastern languages is
designed for students interested in an in-depth investigation of one or
more of the Middle Eastern languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Persian or Turkish
from a theoretical, empirical, pedagogical, or sociocultural  
perspective,
including but not limited to the following areas of specialization:

O	empirical analysis of the phonology, morphology, or syntax of Near
Eastern languages
O	regional and social varieties of Near Eastern languages
O	Near Eastern languages in social and political contexts
O	historical and contemporary study of Near Eastern  languages.

The program   provides students with training in research methods and
analysis, and features discussions on current debates on Middle Eastern
languages and their varieties within regional and national contexts;
thereby accommodating both students interested in Ph.D. research and
students with primary interest in language pedagogy. The program is
structured to feature the expertise of  the participating faculty  
members,
all of whom are engaged in active research in the field of linguistics.

2. Admission Requirements

The standard admission requirements are a B.A. degree in NES,  
Linguistics,
or related field, and satisfaction of the Graduate Record Examination.
International students need to satisfy only the TOEFL requirement.

3. Course Structure

The program will involve several components. Students are required to  
take
a designated number of units from each components as stated below. A
comprehensive list of all the components and the courses within each are
found in Section 4.

In the first year of the program, students will be required to take the
core linguistics courses in phonology, syntax and morphology to cover  
the
basic elements of linguistic analysis, in addition to completing  
courses in
sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, and cultural  
anthropology.
NES 595d is required the first semester of study, on par with graduate
students in other NES tracks.

The student continues to take the 500-level required courses; in the  
spring
of the second year (fourth semester), the student must complete a
professionalism and prelim courses in preparation for their prelim paper
(in lieu of an M. A. thesis). At this stage, the student will be  
subject to
a programmatic evaluation to determine their eligibility to continue  
into
the Ph.D. phase. Students who have already obtained an M.A. from other
institutions will be evaluated for their eligibility for the Ph.D.  
phase of
the program.

Upper level seminars and elective courses will be completed the third  
year.

An oral comprehensive examination emphasizing the student's breadth of
knowledge in both major and minor areas will be held during the sixth
semester. Students should be ready with their dissertation proposal  
defense
by the end of the seventh semester.

4. The Curriculum

O.	Language component (0 Units)
This component is a prerequisite for the program: a minimum of three  
years
(6 semesters) of a language of the Middle East is required. Students may
satisfy the language requirement concurrently with their graduate  
work, but
credits from these language courses will not count  toward the degree.

I.	Cultural component (6 units)
       Choose two of the following
O	Sociolinguistics- Language & Society of the Middle East 	
O	Cultural anthropology	
O	Language and Gender
O Other;possibly History or Islamic Studies; selected in consultation  
with
committee

II.	Basic/Theoretical linguistics component (15 Units)

O	Linguistics 503 (Syntax I)
O	Linguistics 510 (Phonology I)
O	Linguistics 535 (Morphology)
        Choose two of the following structure courses:
O	New course:  Structure of Near Eastern Languages; co-taught by  
Farwaneh,
Karimi, Ussishkin, and Wedel.
O	Courses in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish  Linguistics
O	TAFL: Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, to be cross-listed  
with SLAT
and Linguistics.
O	A teaching methods course with emphasis on Less Commonly Taught  
Languages.

III.	Research component 	(7 Units)

O	NES 595D: Approaches, Themes, and Controversies in Near Eastern  
Studies
O	Professionalism course
O	Prelim course	 (3 Units)

IV.	600-level (seminar) component (6 Units)
	Seminars: 2 required	(6 units)
o	Structure of Iranian languages
o	Structure of Hebrew
o	Arabic dialects
o	Diglossia
o	Jewish languages
o	Issues in Language politics (possibly Language Planning and Policy  
LRC 795)
o	Philosophy of language

V.	Minor 	 (9 Units)
Can be in Linguistics, applied linguistics, literature, Anthro, LRC,  
or any
related field approved by the Graduate Committee.	

Total Coursework Hours: 43


VI 	Dissertation Requirements	(18 Units)

Dissertation Requirement.  The dissertation amounts to credit for two
semesters of full-time work.  Registration for eighteen units of
dissertation credit (NES 920) is required during the dissertation stage
with a maximum of nine units in any given semester.

Total: 61 units

Samira Farwaneh
Assistant Professor, Arabic Language and Linguistics
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Department of Linguistics
Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program
Louise Foucar Marshall Building
845 N Park Avenue, Room 440
PO BOX 210158B
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona  85721-0158B
Phone: (520) 621-8629 Or 621-8012
Fax: (520) 621-2333

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