This doctoral program studies communication processes, language use and acquisition, communication disorders, and related areas. Students are expected to concentrate their work in one or more areas of active faculty research. The program is designed to produce research professors for colleges and universities and/or researchers for schools, clinics, and hospitals.

Contact: Graduate Coordinator of Applied Language and Speech Sciences

Graduate study leading to a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science is offered by the Institute of Cognitive Science, which emphasizes the comparative study of human, animal, and machine cognition. The Institute links research in various university units, including The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS). The New Iberia Research Center (NIRC) and the departments of Biology, English (Linguistics), Mathematics, Philosophy, Psychology, and Communicative Disorders.

Contact: Graduate Coordinator of Cognitive Science

The Master of Science in Communication degree program provides concentrations in Advertising; Interpersonal/Organizational Communication; Mass Communication (journalism); and Public Relations. Each concentration incorporates substantial preparation in research, theory, and communication management.

Contact: Graduate Coordinator of Communication

The Counselor Education program, jointly administered by the College of Education, the College of Liberal Arts, and the Graduate School is designed to prepare graduate students to assume roles as school counselors, community counselors, rehabilitation counselors, and college counselors. The student who successfully completes the degree will have satisfied the education requirements for several state and national certifications and licenses.

Contact: Graduate Coordinator of Counselor Education

The degree of Master of Arts with a major in English is designed to satisfy the needs of a variety of students; those who wish to prepare themselves for college teaching on the freshman and sophomore levels or for continuation into doctoral studies; those who are currently high school English teachers and wish to broaden their knowledge of their specialty; those who plan to enter high school teaching; and those who wish to receive training in professional writing. Students may concentrate in English or American literature and language; in creative or professional writing; in rhetoric; in linguistics or ESOL studies; in folklore; or in American culture, which emphasizes American literature with additional coursework in other American studies such as history or sociology.

Contact: Graduate Coordinator of English

The Ph.D. program affords students close professional contact with and guidance from a diverse graduate faculty distinguished in its commitment to both teaching and research. All doctorates in English have a foundation in studies of British and American language and literature, thus Ph.D. students receive a broad education in the discipline that prepares them to teach effectively at any college level and provides the background for advanced research in their areas of particular expertise. With the help of faculty mentors, students have the flexibility to fashion a course of study, comprehensive examinations, and dissertation research both in these concentrations and in such specialized areas as critical theory, African American literature, women's folklore and literature, and children's literature.

Contact: Graduate Coordinator of English

The Master's program in French is designed to provide a broad knowledge of the French language, literature and culture. Students may elect to focus on France exclusively or on the Francophone world, with France as a primary area, as well as Francophone Europe, Quebec, Acadia, Louisiana, the Antilles and Haiti, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Maghreb, and the Mediterranean. Both thesis and non-thesis tracks are available.

Contact: Graduate Coordinator of French

The doctoral program in Francophone Studies is designed to provide a broad knowledge of the Francophone world, including France, Francophone Europe, Quebec, Acadia, Louisiana, the Antilles and Haiti, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Maghreb, and the Mediterranean. The program offers a variety of approaches: literary, linguistic, critical, ethnographic and historical. Courses offered through the departments of History, Sociology and Anthropology and English (Folklore) complement those taught in the French and Francophone Studies Program.

Contact: Graduate Coordinator of Francophone Studies

The Master of Arts degree program in history provides intensive graduate training in European, Latin American, United States, and Public history. It prepares the student pursue doctoral studies, to teach history at the secondary, community or junior college levels, or to find employment in public history fields, as well as providing rigorous study in the humanities for those from non-academic professions.

Contact: Graduate Coordinator of History

The graduate program in psychology offers a Master of Science degree. Students may take courses in general-experimental psychology or in applied psychology. Courses in the general-experimental track are appropriate for students preparing for doctoral work. Courses in the applied track are appropriate for students pursuing a terminal Master of Science degree. Although students taking courses in the applied track have occasionally gone on to doctoral programs, applied psychology students would normally seek professional employment in community service agencies or in educational settings at all levels. The program also works in conjunction with the Institute of Cognitive Science and the Master of Science in the Counselor Education program. The objectives of the program are to provide academic knowledge, technical skills, and experience under professional supervision for persons interested in entering the field and profession of psychology.

Contact: Graduate Coordinator of Psychology

The Master's degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology introduces students to advanced study and specialization in communicative disorders, instructs them in methods of independent investigation, enables them to satisfy the academic requirements for the Certificate of Clinical Competence of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and to acquire the requisite skills to become responsible professionals in Speech-Language Pathology.

Contact: Graduate Coordinator of Communicative Disorders

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