Master in Indo-American Linguistics
Mexico City, Mexico
MA
DURATION
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Jul 2027
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Master in Indo-American Linguistics at CIESAS trains linguists in theoretical and applied linguistics focused on Amerindian languages. It prepares graduates to research, teach, and design projects and public policies on language knowledge and development. Students gain grounding in linguistics and may specialize in Acquisition and socialization of language, Sociolinguistics, Anthropological Linguistics, or language documentation and subfields. The programme emphasizes problems affecting indigenous languages and interdisciplinary links with anthropology, history, and social sciences.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work in language teaching, linguistic research, language documentation, public policy design, community advocacy, and cultural heritage management in public or academic sectors.
The postgraduate course is aimed at training linguists with a broad domain of the discipline, capable of researching, teaching, and intervening in the design of projects and public policies aimed at the knowledge and development of Indo-American languages. The graduate will have a deep knowledge of Linguistics and a specialization in any of the areas offered by the program: Acquisition and socialization of language; Sociolinguistics; Anthropological Linguistics, and the documentation of Amerindian languages in some of its sub-disciplines. In addition, by having solid training in the various problems that concern indigenous languages, the professional will be able to work in teaching and research, both in the public or private sector or work on the design of language policies.
