Linguistics

Description

Our BA Linguistics lets you delve into questions like: How do children learn to talk and read? What are the best ways of teaching and learning a foreign language? How do our age, sex, social background and regional origins affect the way we speak? How do accents and dialects come about? How do languages change over the course of time and why? How do we produce and process words and sentences? What are the causes and consequences of different types of language disorder in young children and adults? How is language used in conversation and the media?
How do contemporary linguistic theories help us understand the nature of sounds, words, sentences, use and usage? Can languages be classified into a small number of different types? How does English differ from other languages in respect of its typological properties?

Our flexible BA Linguistics provides you with a good grounding in a range of areas of linguistics in your first year, and allows you a free choice of linguistics options in your second and third years: you choose from dozens of modules on topics like language variation, language change, child language acquisition, language disorders, language processing, language learning, language teaching, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and so on. Due to its flexible structure, this is an ideal course to combine with spending a study year abroad (eg in Australia, Europe, Canada or the USA), if you wish.

Detailed Course Facts

• GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
• GBP 11950 Year (Non-EEA)

• English

Course Content

The special characteristics of our course are flexibility and choice. In your first year you take three compulsory modules and one optional module. During your second and final years, all your modules are optional. However, you must take three Linguistics modules. For BA Linguistics one of your optional modules can be from across the faculty each year. There is a great deal of choice for these optional modules due to the extensive range of modules offered by our departments.
With a small number of exceptions, if you successfully complete the first year of your BA, then you are qualified to enter the second year of that course and a range of other courses: for example, if you take economics, politics, philosophy and sociology, then you have a choice of at least nine possible single or joint honours courses at the end of your first year. This means you can change your course, providing you have taken the appropriate pre-requisites and places are available.
We operate a credit framework for our awards, which is based on principles widely used across the UK university sector. Each module has a credit rating attached and our standard three-year course consists of 360 credits (120 credits in your first year, and 240 credits across your second and final years).
Please note that module information on our course finder provides a guide to course content and may be subject to review on an annual basis.

Year 1

Foundations of Sociolinguistics;
Foundations of Psycholinguistics;
Foundations of Linguistics; and
one linguistics, language or social science option

Year 2

Three linguistics options; and
one linguistics, language, social science or project option

Year 3

Three linguistics options; and
one linguistics, language, social science or project option

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

Requirements

• A-levels: ABB-BBB
• GCSE English: C
• IB: 32-30 points (we consider IB certificates at the Higher Level on a case-by-case basis)
• Achievement of the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 6 level three credits at distinction and the remainder at merit (or above) or achievement of the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 45 level three credits at merit (or above).

English language requirements for applicants whose first language is not English: IELTS 6.0 overall with minimum 5.5 in each component (or equivalent). Different requirements apply for second year entry.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Essex.

Funding

For up-to-date information on funding opportunities at Essex, please visit: www.essex.ac.uk/studentfinance.