Indigenous Languages and Linguistics (Graduate Certificate) at Simon Fraser University

Programme overview

The graduate certificate in Indigenous languages and linguistics offers training to students for careers as language researchers, post-secondary educators, and material developers. Students gain expertise in communicative skills, language documentation and analysis of a particular Indigenous language. Some cohorts will be entirely devoted to a single language (e.g. Hul'q'umi'num'), while others will be mixed-language cohorts focusing on work by individual students or groups of students on a particular language, but supplemented by material applicable to all the languages of the cohort (e.g.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences | Department: Department of Linguistics | Duration: three terms | Study mode: full-time | Location: Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

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Entry requirements

Applicants will be required to meet the minimum University requirements for a graduate certificate as per GGR 1.3.4 . In addition, applicants must be fluent speakers of the language (as assessed by a panel of Elders); or be semi-fluent speakers who have completed the certificate in Indigenous language proficiency at SFU with a CGPA of at least 2.5. Also admissible are students who have completed a BA or BEd, and have studied both the language and some linguistics. All applicants must provide a portfolio containing evidence of being a language specialist, providing examples of products created or projects completed, with role or contribution specified.

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the courses you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Duration: three terms

Apply through the official page: https://www.sfu.ca/gradstudies/apply.html

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