29.4700, Support: German; Germanic: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

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Subject: 29.4700, Support: German; Germanic: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 16:38:02
From: Irmengard Rauch [irauch at berkeley.edu]
Subject: German; Germanic: PhD, University of California, Berkeley, USA

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

Level: PhD 
Required Language(s): German (deu)

                      Germanic 

Description:

Welcome to the Germanic Linguistics Specialization at the University of
California, Berkeley. 

Applications for the academic year 2019-2020 are due by December 15. For
further 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 is
characterized by its trend-setting, forward-looking stance. Thus, for example,
in the first half of the twentieth century the Germanic Linguistics program
included in its outreach to non-Germanic languages the research of the
structure of California’s American Indian languages. In the second half of the
last century, Berkeley’s Germanic Linguist was instrumental in creating the
first written grammar of Pashto as part of the World War 2 effort. The second
half of the twentieth century brought American semiotics with its inherent
multi-disciplinary foci to the West through its addition to Berkeley’s
Germanic Linguistics curriculum and through the hosting of the first
California meeting of the Semiotic Society of America. In 1994, 700 persons
from 50 countries were hosted in Berkeley for the Fifth Congress of the
International Association for Semiotic Studies. At that time as well Dutch
Linguistics courses were established and brought under the umbrella of the
Germanic Linguistics Specialization, thereby strengthening its
interdisciplinary reach.

The Germanistics field is well served as a discipline which includes the
hallmark scientific rigor provided by the Germanic Linguistics Specialization.
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.

Nineteen course offerings, including the open topic German 290 Seminar in
German Linguistics, comprise the interdisciplinary Germanic Linguistics
Specialization. This curriculum displays the broad range of courses in
contemporary German, in historical Germanic languages, and in the methods of
German and Germanic linguistics, subsuming recent directions in theoretical
approaches such as cognitive models, corpus linguistics, natural language
processing, semiotics, and literary studies, 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. Interdisciplinary
courses in other Germanic languages, for example, Dutch, English, Scandinavian
languages, as well as in non-Germanic languages, e.g., Slavic, Romance
languages, and/or non-Indo-European languages are encouraged. Participation in
the biennial Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, meeting since 1990, and
in the annual Semiotic Circle of California, meeting since 1985, affords
students a forum to present their linguistic and/or semiotic research, as well
as to initiate global professional contacts.

Placement statistics of the 49 Ph.D. degrees awarded students in Berkeley’s
Germanic Linguistics Specialization since 1982 are: Academe 32; Entrepreneurs
10; IT/Computer Firms 5; Law 1; US government 1.
 

Application Deadline: 15-Dec-2018 

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

Contact Information: 
	Dr. Irmengard Rauch 
	irauch at berkeley.edu  


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