Doctoral School of Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Studies

Faculty: Humanities

Doctoral council of disciplinary area: Humanities

Discipline: English linguistics, Literary and cultural studies

Research areas:

• English and North American literature
• Doctoral program of general and applied linguistics
• English linguistics

Only students with a university/MA degree are accepted, based on an interview that evaluates the applicant's scholarly performance, research proposal, and general professional intelligence. Doctoral students may be engaged in teaching in the undergraduate program of the University of Debrecen.

Short description

Linguistics: We are especially interested in syntax, morphology, semantics, and pragmatics; as well as in the more interdisciplinary fields of computational linguistics, discourse analysis, first and second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics. With a firm devotion to linguistic theory, we also welcome and encourage experimental and corpus-driven approaches to the study of language; and though we focus on English, we are also open to other languages of the world.

Literature and Culture: The applicants of the program may choose from the following research areas: British studies, (North) American studies, Canadian studies, Australian studies, literary and cultural studies, American, British, Australian history, comparative literature, film studies, media studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies.

The instructional part of this doctoral program provides students with the theoretical and historical background as well as with analytical skill necessary for the completion of their dissertation, in the disciplines and fields specified above.

Contact:

Dr. Gönczy Monika; deidi@arts.unideb.hu 

Szendreiné Főzy Lucia; fozy.lucia@arts.unideb.hu

Applicants must have an English proficiency of at least C1 level as the program is fully taught in English. For your information, this is equivalent to:

• a TOEFL test with a minimum score of 600 (Paper-Based).
• an IELTS test with a minimum score of 8.0

The language proficiency of applicants must be proven with a standardized, at least Advanced (C1) level language certificate, obtained at a proctored exam.

Applicants can be exempted from submitting an English proficiency test if they are native speakers of English (first language) or they have completed the secondary or higher education in the English language (in this case a medium of instruction certificate as proof of proficiency is required). Exemptions may be granted on the basis of certain other educational certificates submitted with the application.

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