Ph.D. Program Information

Concentration in Language and Literacy

The Ph.D. concentration in Language and Literacy prepares students for careers in areas where knowledge of child language and literacy is required. These include the areas of language and reading disorders, bilingualism and bilingual education, language arts and literacy, and language and culture.

The course requirements for the Ph.D. concentration in Language and Literacy are as follows:

1. CD 155 The Young Child's Development of Language
2. CD 151 Advanced Intellectual Development
3. One introductory linguistics course taken outside the University
4. CD 142 Problems of Research Methods and Design
5. CD 144 Qualitative and Ethnographic Methods
6. CD 140 Statistics
7. CD 243MW Reading, Dyslexia and the Brain
8. Four Concentration Electives
9. Four Open Electives
10. Internship
11. Two Qualifying Papers
12. Doctoral Dissertation

Ph.D. Language and Literacy Concentration Electives:

The following list of sub-specialties and concentration electives suggests courses most appropriate for different sub-specialties. However, any course listed below counts as a concentration elective regardless of the student's sub-specialty.

Language and Reading Disorders

• CD 124,125 American Sign Language
• CD 152 Development of Thought and Language
• CD 156 Applied Aspects of Physiological Development
• CD 195 Developmental Disorders of Reading and Language
• CD 196 Curriculum for Children with Special Needs
• CD 197 Learning Disorders

Bilingualism/Bilingual Education

• CD 124,125 American Sign Language
• CD 152 Development of Thought and Language
• CD 153 Culture and Learning: Issues for Education
• CD 177 Bilingual Children in U.S. Schools

Language Arts/Literacy

• CD 143 Technologies of the Self
• CD 152 Development of Thought and Language
• CD 170 Seminar in Early and Elementary Education
• CD 172 Reading and Language Arts for Young Children
• CD 176 Children's Literature

Related Courses Outside the Department

• CSC 131 Artificial Intelligence
• PH 133 Philosophy of Language
• PY 149 Psychology of Language
• AP 160 Linguistic Anthropology
• ED 185 Language Development in the English Curriculum
• ED 243 Assessment and Diagnosis of Cognitive Abilities
• PY 103 Brain and Behavior
• PY 129 Cognitive Neuropsychology
• PY 144 Memory and Retention
• PY 244 Cognition and Learning
• PY 247 Cognition

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