Post bacc linguistics programs?

[Guest Gnome Chomsky]

Just wondering if anyone knows about any year-long post-bacc opportunities in linguistics, particularly for someone with a linguistics BA from a school that offered no computational linguistics who would like to gain knowledge/experience appropriate for applying to a computational linguistics PhD next year.

Edited December 20, 2012 by JoeyBoy718

[Phonolog]

Are you French? France is the only place I know that says post-bac. And no, 1-year linguistics programs in North America do not exist.

[busbus]

Are you French? France is the only place I know that says post-bac. And no, 1-year linguistics programs in North America do not exist.

 

The University of Washington definitely uses post-bac (  https://admit.washington.edu/Admission/Postbac ). UW's Speech and Hearing Sciences department has an official postbac program. 

 

Just wondering if anyone knows about any year-long post-bacc opportunities in linguistics, particularly for someone with a linguistics BA from a school that offered no computational linguistics who would like to gain knowledge/experience appropriate for applying to a computational linguistics PhD next year.

 

Check out U Washington. I don't recall if they have an official postbac program, but I have known a couple of students who were postbacs.  A friend of mine had a degree in Spanish, for example. She did her postbac at UW. And now she's in a linguistics program in one of the U California schools.

[Phonolog]

Oh wow - didn't know that existed. I should have done something like that instead of a masters (in France, where Post-bac is our bachelor's and it's all upside down). It would be nice to have left for a year and come back for say the honours year which is what that seems to be.

[antecedent]

In the UK you can get into an Informatics/Linguistics taught MSc with little or no programming experience. I know someone who got in to the University of Edinburgh study machine translation who had no formal computational training. 

[phalanges]

There is a Post-bac program at Maryland as well: http://ling.umd.edu/baggett/

 

Edit: you could also take courses at the LSA Summer Institute: http://lsa2013.lsa.umich.edu/

Edited March 4, 2013 by phalanges

[funchaku]

I don't think the Baggett fellowship is a post-bacc program in the typical sense. For instance, I'm not sure if you actually take classes. I think it's really more of a salaried RAship, and a highly competitive one--they have about 1 or 2 fellows each year.  

[madisonstarr]

Brandeis has a computational linguistics Masters degree that understands that some schools don't have the computational aspect. They'll focus on more foundational stuff at first for that in whichever area you need more coursework in. Looks pretty good but it's not my area so who knows