List of available courses, BA (2024/25)
You can now view a list of courses offered for the academic year 2024-2025 below and the latest timetable here.
All courses are assessed by 100% coursework. Coursework assessment may take a variety of formats, including projects, term-papers, essays, portfolios, class tests, and student presentations.
All are taught as one-semester courses. Course availability is subject to staffing considerations.
First Year Courses
• Introduction to Language – LING1000
Advanced Courses
• Semantics: Meaning and Grammar – LING2003
• Phonology: An Introduction to the Study of Sound Systems – LING2027
• Morphology – LING2030
• Syntactic Theory – LING2032
• Languages in Contact – LING2040
• Languages of China – LING2060
• Natural Language Processing – LING2067
• Origins of language – LING2069
• Advanced topics in syntax – LING2073
• Introduction to second language research – LING2074
Courses not on offer this year
Language structure for Language Learning – LING1004
Experimental Phonetics & Phonology – LING2012
Language Typology: The Study of Linguistic Diversity – LING2013
Lexical-functional Grammar – LING2018
Pragmatics – LING2022
Discourse Analysis – LING2023
Child Language – LING2036
Bilingualism – LING2037
Optimality theory – LING2047
Language and the brain – LING2053
Reading Development and Reading Disorders – LING2055
Topics in Cantonese Linguistics – LING2058
Writing Systems – LING2059
Linguistic Fieldwork – LING2061
Experimental Syntax – LING2062
Language in Africa – LING2064
Endangered Languages: Issues and Methods – LING2065
Variation Analysis – LING2066
Computational Approaches to Language – LNIG2068
Historical Linguistics: Languages, Genes and Human Migrations – LING2070
Introductory statistics for the humanities – LING2071
Advanced Statistics for the Humanities – LING2072
Issues in language documentation – LING2075
Mind and body: A holistic approach to the sounds of language – LING2076
Advanced topics in reading, language and cognition – LING3005
Seminar in Psycholinguistics – LING3007