Universidade de Aveiro Doctorate in Language Sciences
Universidade de Aveiro

Universidade de Aveiro

Doctorate in Language Sciences

Aveiro, Portugal

PhD

6 semesters

English

On-Campus

Key Summary

About: The Doctorate in Language Sciences at Universidade de Aveiro offers advanced training in language and natural-language studies with an applied focus. The three academic years give seminars in contrastive linguistics, language acquisition, applied linguistics and cultural aspects of communication; students pick areas to shape a thesis. Fourteen faculty supervise thesis work. The university hosts students from 96 countries.

Career Outcomes: Graduates may enter academia or research, or work in language teaching, curriculum design, language policy, applied linguistics, translation, language technology and communication consulting. Typical roles include university lecturer, researcher, applied linguist and curriculum developer. Skills include research and analysis.

Doctorate in Language Sciences

The Doctorate in Language Sciences offers advanced training in the fields of language, in general, and natural languages, with particular emphasis on an applied dimension.

The doctoral program is organized in three academic years, the last two being dedicated to the elaboration of the doctoral thesis. In the first year, contents and skills in several linguistic fields will be available in seminars. The general goal is to respond to the previous training and interests of doctoral candidates, thus allowing the choice of a thesis topic. In this sense, training is offered in the study of contrastive languages, in language acquisition, in applied linguistics and in the investigation of the cultural dimension of languages ??in the context of communication. Of the three last areas indicated, only two are available according to the general profile of the doctoral students. Furthermore, the existence of an optional curricular unit, to be freely chosen among those offered by the University of Aveiro, will also help to adapt the doctoral program to the training needs and objectives of doctoral students.

The teaching of curricular units and the supervision of doctoral theses is ensured by a team of fourteen professors with proven experience in teaching and research in the constitutive areas of the doctoral Program.