MA Forensic Linguistics

Duration: Full time 12 months. Part-time 24 months.
Start date(s): October

Entry requirements:
A good UK Honours Degree (minimum 2.1) in English or a related discipline or an overseas degree recognised by Aston University, plus two references.
Mathematics - C/4 or above at GCSE (or equivalent).

The information contained on this website details the typical entry requirements for this course for the most commonly offered qualifications. Applicants with alternative qualifications may wish to enquire with the relevant admissions teams prior to application whether or not their qualifications are deemed acceptable. For less commonly encountered qualifications this will be judged on a case-by-case basis in consultation with the academic admissions tutor.

Applicants whose first language is not English will be required to provide evidence of an English language qualification. .

Fees for 2017/18*:
UK/ EU: £5,450
Non-EU: £14,100
*These figures have not been confirmed, but they are expected to be approximately as stated. Part-time students pay a pro-rata version of full-time fees.

Application: We recommend that overseas students apply before the end of June due to visa requirements as these can take a few weeks to process.

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This programme is designed for students of linguistics and aims to improve students’ linguistic skills and understanding such that they can apply them to forensic texts and contexts. There is a strong ethos throughout this programme that forensic linguistics is an application of linguistics and thus students study and improve their knowledge and abilities in the linguistic analysis of spoken and written language. Alongside the linguistics modules students then learn about the legal and forensic contexts and how linguists have developed understandings and critiques of the language of the law and how linguists analyse language to provide evidence in a variety of legal contexts. To complete the programme students complete a short practical project or placement and then research for a dissertation.

Core modules:

• Lexicogrammar (LEM051)
• Analysing Written and Spoken Discourse (LEM001)
• Analysing Written and Spoken Discourse II (LEM050)
• Research Methods (LRM001)
• Linguistics in Legal contexts (LEM012)
• Language as Evidence (LEM059)
• Practical Applications in Forensic Linguistics (LEM060)
• Dissertation (LRM005)