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Linguistics is the scientific study of language in all its facets. Language is a fundamentally important aspect of human life, and impinges on virtually everything that we do. Thus, Linguistics is a study which shares interests with a very wide range of other disciplines, and usefully complements a variety of other subject areas, such as the language subjects, Philosophy, Education, Sociology, Social Anthropology, Psychology and Artificial Intelligence.
Linguistics is available as a major for the BA and BSocSc. Linguistics may also be taken as a second major or as a supporting subject within other undergraduate degrees, subject to academic approval of the Faculty or School of Studies in which the student is enrolled.
To complete a major in Linguistics, students must gain 120 points above 100 level in Linguistics, including LING231, LING302, LING304 and at least 60 further points in Linguistics, of which 20 must be taken from a 300 level LING-coded paper.
It is recommended that students intending to major in Linguistics include LING131 and LING132 in the first year of their programme of study in order to meet prerequisites for study at 200 level and above.
To complete a supporting subject in Linguistics, students must include LING131, LING132 and LING231.
It is recommended that students intending to take Linguistics as a major or supporting subject include a language skills paper in a language other than their first language in their programme of study. Such a paper would not count as a Linguistics paper for the purpose of the degree regulations.
Note: Candidates must gain at least 60 points at 100 level in any subject(s) before enrolling in Linguistics papers above 100 level, and at least 90 points at 100 and 200 level before enrolling in Linguistics papers above 200 level.
| 100 level | 200 level | 300 level | Prescriptions for the GradCert(Ling) and GradDip(Ling) | Prescriptions for the MPhil | Prescriptions for the PhD |
100 level |
| ENGL113 - 12B (HAM) - English.Confidence |
| LING131 - 12B (HAM) - Describing Language |
| LING132 - 12A (HAM) - Introduction to Linguistic Communication |
| LING133 - Introduction to Latin |
200 level |
| ENGL214 - An Introduction to the History of the English Language |
| LING200 - The Languages of Europe |
| LING203 - 12B (HAM) - Language, Society and Culture |
| LING204 - 12B (HAM) - Introduction to Applied Linguistics |
| LING231 - 12A (HAM) - General Linguistics |
| PHIL204 - Language and Communication |
300 level |
| ALED322 - 12B (NET) - Language and Cognition in Life |
| LING302 - 12B (HAM) - Language Typology |
| LING304 - 12A (HAM) & 12B (HAM) - Sociolinguistics |
| LING306 - 12A (HAM) - An Introduction to Second Language Teaching |
| LING380 - 12A (HAM) - Special Topic |
| LING390 - 12A (HAM), 12B (HAM), 12S (HAM) & 12Y (HAM) - Directed Study |
Prescriptions for the GradCert(Ling) and GradDip(Ling) A Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma are available to graduates who have not included Linguistics at an advanced level in their first degree. |
Prescriptions for the MPhil The Master of Philosophy is a one year research-based degree in which students undertake a programme of approved and supervised research that leads to a thesis which critically investigates an approved topic of substance and significance, demonstrates expertise in the methods of research and scholarship, displays intellectual independence and makes a substantial original contribution to the subject area concerned, and is of publishable quality. |
| LING800 - 12C (HAM) - Linguistics MPhil Thesis |
Prescriptions for the PhD The Doctor of Philosophy is a two year research-based degree in which students undertake a programme of approved and supervised research that leads to a thesis which critically investigates an approved topic of substance and significance, demonstrates expertise in the methods of research and scholarship, displays intellectual independence and makes a substantial original contribution to the subject area concerned, and is of publishable quality. |
| LING900 - 12C (HAM) - Linguistics PhD Thesis |
Current information as of 15 May 2012 5:04pm
