攻读语言学博士学位的学生必须完成除学士学位以外的至少60个单元的课程。除了完成MA的32个单元外，学生还必须参加三个600级别的语言学研讨会，以及至少四个794ab博士论文单元。博士学位申请不得超过794的八个单位。<br> <br>成功完成筛选程序后，学生将建立合格的考试委员会，以确定博士学位课程计划，以准备博士学位课程。为论文。该课程必须由研究生研究委员会批准。
The USC Department of Linguistics enjoys a national and international reputation for excellence in the scientific study of language. For over thirty years, its faculty has regularly made fundamental contributions to the advancement of theoretical linguistics, with research primarily carried out in five major subfields of formal linguistics: phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, semantics, and syntax. The department has 20 core faculty, 35-40 graduate students, and around 70 undergraduates engaged in a range of linguistics majors, including computational linguistics, linguistics and cognitive science, and linguistics and philosophy.