Admission criteria
Profile for admission
The Doctoral Programme in Linguistics, which aims to train doctoral candidates in any of the various fields of linguistics, is directed at those who have the skills to conduct research and scientific innovation in the field of linguistics, and specifically to see complex structures in languages, subjected to universal patterns rooted in the human mind; as well as viewing them as historical products of different societies and human communities across the planet. Candidates must be able to approach linguistic phenomena with an analytical mind, search for the elements making up their structures, and with an open mind, attempting to broaden the limits of their own prior experience with access to new languages and situations.
Candidates must have postgraduate level knowledge in one of the many fields of linguistics, either traditional or modern, historical or descriptive, theoretical or applied; or in interdisciplinary fields of linguistics such as language studies and related sciences, linguistic historiography, anthropology, and psychology.
Given that the programme is taught in Castilian Spanish and English, candidates who are not native speakers of those languages must have level B2 English and/or Spanish.
No complementary training proposed.
Specifically, the Doctoral Programme in Linguistics will admit those candidates who hold an official Master¿s in Linguistics (theoretical or applied), Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, Master¿s in Language Studies, Translation and Interpretation, or any other Master¿s related to the multidisciplinary field of linguistics.
Spanish
English
Procedure for assigning a faculty member as a doctoral thesis tutor and director
Once a student has been accepted onto the doctoral programme, the Academic Commission will assign them a tutor and at least one director from among the faculty at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) participating in the programme.
When a letter of endorsement is required from Doctoral Programme, director of the candidate will be the person indicated at the endorsement letter. No candidates will be accepted without endorsement letter, when it is required by doctoral programme.
Tutors are responsible for interactions between the doctoral candidate and the Academic Commission. They are also responsible for adapting training and research activities to the principles of the programmes and, where appropriate, the Doctoral School.
For more information, see the procedures and rules.
Specifications for this doctoral programme
No complementary training proposed.