• UW Madison offers an MA and PhD degree in Chinese, specializing either in linguistics or in literature and culture.
  • The program provides broad foundations and focused training in these two specialties, assuring that the graduates are amply prepared to teach and conduct research.
  • The linguistics specialty excels in areas of historical linguistics, phonology, prosody, grammaticalization, interface study between syntax and phonology, dialectology, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, pedagogy, and pragmatics.  
  • The literature and culture specialty covers periods from the pre-Qin through the modern and contemporary, including the study of fictional and historiographical narrative, poetry, drama, film, and new media.