List of available courses, BA (2023/24)

You can now view a list of courses offered for the academic year 2023-2024 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

Introductory Courses

All courses have LING1000 – Introduction to Language as their prerequisite.

• Phonetics: Describing sounds (Core) – LING2004
• Languages of the World – LING2009
• Psycholinguistics – LING2034
• Grammatical Description (Core) – LING2050
• Sociolinguistics – LING2056

Advanced Courses

• Phonology: An Introduction to the Study of Sound Systems – LING2027
• Morphology – LING2030
• Syntactic Theory – LING2032
• Languages in Contact – LING2040
• Languages and Cognition – LING2048
• Topics in Cantonese Linguistics – LING2058
•Languages of China – LING2060
• Linguistic Fieldwork – LING2061
• Variation Analysis – LING2066
• Natural Language Processing – LING2067
• Historical Linguistics: Languages, Genes and Human Migrations – LING2070
• Introductory statistics for the humanities – LING2071
• Introduction to second language research – LING2074

Capstone Courses

• Extended Essay – LING3002
• Linguistics Field Trip – LING3003
• Laboratory Linguistics – LING3006