BA Linguistics (Placement Year)
Entry requirements
A level: AAB IB: 35 points overall with 16 points from the best 3 HL subjects
About this course
BA Hons in Linguistics (Placement Year), an English Language and Linguistics degree centred on the study of human language, communication structures, and real-world applications. Core topics include Programming, Statistics, Research Methods, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. The third year consists of an industrial work-based placement role to build professional workplace experience. The first year covers foundational concepts through compulsory modules such as English across Space and Time, Foundations of Language, Language in Mind and Society, and Linguistic Inquiry and Applications, alongside optional choices like English in Use. The second year introduces core areas of spoken communication and societal data through Corpus Linguistics, Language and Society in a Data-Driven World, Sounds of the World's Languages, and Structures of the World's Languages, while offering optional modules including Computational Approaches and their Applications for Language, Discourse Studies, and English Grammar. The third year is spent on a professional work placement. The final fourth year advances theoretical understanding through core modules such as Cognitive Linguistics and Phonetic and Phonological Theory, with optional topics available in Forensic Linguistics, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, and a final-year independent research dissertation.
Modules
- English across Space and Time
- Foundations of Language
- Language in Mind and Society
- Linguistic Inquiry and Applications
- English in Use
- Knowledge and Reality in a Complex World
- Ethics: How Should I Live?
- Crime and Popular Culture
- Corpus Linguistics, Language and Society in a Data-Driven World
- Sounds of the World's Languages
- Structures of the World's Languages
- Computational Approaches and their Applications for Language
- Discourse Studies
- English Grammar
- English Phonetics
- Language Acquisition
- Language and Creativity in Advertising
- Language and Pedagogic Practice
- Professional Communication
- Organised Crime
- Contemporary Issues in Policing
- Work Based Learning Year
- Cognitive Linguistics
- Phonetic and Phonological Theory
- Forensic Linguistics
- Language and Media
- Language and Social Identities
- Language Variation and Change in English
- Language, Culture and Cognition
- Linguistics and English Language Dissertation
- Pragmatics
- Psycholinguistics