硕士学位包括两年的学习课程。拥有UCSC语言学学士学位并在其大学生涯中修过许多核心研究生课程的学生，可以在一年内完成该课程。学生至少完成十三门课程（65学分）。在第一年，学生将学习语音，语音，心理语言，语义，句法以及现场或实验方法等一系列核心课程。到第二年年底，大多数必修课程（包括另外一个研究研讨会和三个不同领域的研讨会）通常已完成。
The MA degree involves a two-year course of study. It may be completed in one year by students who have a BA in Linguistics from UCSC and who have taken a number of the core graduate courses during their undergraduate career.<br><br>The degree requires completion of a minimum of nine courses (45 units) beyond whatever courses were taken at the BA level. These include: the A sequence in phonology, syntax, and semantics, two courses from the B sequence, four additional graduate-level linguistics courses (one of which must be from the named list).