Linguistics ba (hons)
Postgraduate
In London
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School of Languages and Social Sciences - Aston University
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Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
London
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Duration
3 Years
Teaching
Teaching and learning
You'll receive approximately eight to 10 hours of teaching per week, comprising lectures, seminars and workshops.
For every hour spent in class, you'll complete a further two to three hours of independent study.
Assessment
Assessment typically includes a combination of research diaries, poster presentations, class tests and exams. In your final year, you’ll carry out a research project based on real-world data and applying cutting-edge theory, which will bring together everything you have learned.
Resources and facilities
The School offers excellent on-campus resources to aid your studies, including:
the Queen Mary library
a phonetics laboratory, including a soundproof recording studio
Ling Lunch talks
Departmental guest speaker seminars, which allow you to hear from Queen Mary academics, researchers and experts from institutions in Europe and North America.
Learn another language
If you’re interested in learning another language, you can sign up for a course at Queen Mary’s Language Centre, where you can choose from Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Japanese or Spanish.
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Subjects
- Project
- Phonetics
- English
- Teaching
Course programme
Structure
You can complete your Linguistics degree in three or four years. If you choose to study abroad, this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.
- Year 1
- Year 2
- Year 3
Year 1
- Academic and Professional Writing
- English in Use
- Foundations of Linguistics
- Introduction to English Syntax
- Introduction to Phonology
- Languages of the World
- Sounds of English
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Year 2 Compulsory
- Aspects of Meaning
- Research Methods in Linguistics
- Applying Linguistics in the Real World
- Describing Prosody
- English Around the World
- Explaining Grammatical Structure
- History of English
- Interaction and Discourse
- Language and Mind
- Language and the Media
- Linguistic Typology and Grammatical Theory
- Sociolinguistic Variation and Change
You will be expected to complete a sequence of modules in at least two core areas such as phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics or typology.
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Year 3 Compulsory
- Dissertation project
- Beyond Language
- Bilingualism and Multilingualism
- Communication Disorders
- Constructed Languages
- Formal Semantics
- Health Communication
- Philosophy of Language
- Sex, Gender, and Language
- Structures of Spoken English
- Syntactic Theory
- Unfamiliar Languages
You may also be able to choose modules in Computer Science, Psychology, English Literature and Comparative Literature.
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Study options
Apply for this degree with any of the following options. Take care to use the correct UCAS code - it may not be possible to change your selection later.
Year abroad
Go global and study abroad as part of your degree – apply for our Linguistics BA with a Year Abroad. Queen Mary has links with universities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia (partnerships vary for each degree programme).
Find out more about study abroad opportunities at Queen Mary and what the progression requirements are.
Linguistics ba (hons)
-
School of Languages and Social Sciences - Aston University
Master Distance LearningPrice on request -
Courses For Success
Course OnlinePrice on request -
University of West London
Bachelor's degree London / Classroom-based£ 9,250 + VAT -
University of the Arts London (UAL)
Bachelor's degree London / Classroom-based£ 9,250 -
Goldsmiths, University of London
Bachelor's degree London / Classroom-basedPrice on request -
Birkbeck, University of London
Bachelor's degree London / Classroom-based£ 6,935 -
Middlesex University
Bachelor's degree London / Classroom-basedPrice on request
See all