5 monthsProgramme duration
Programme overview
Main Subject
Linguistics
Degree
Other
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
Online
Why Lancaster?
We are home to the ESRC research Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, delivering world-leading work in corpus-based language data science. We’ve developed major corpora such as the British National Corpus 2014 and the Trinity Lancaster Corpus and led innovations in digital analysis tools.
Our researchers are internationally recognised for their work in applying corpus approaches to the real world, from misinformation and social media discourse to education and public health communication, as well as the development and evaluation of GenAI tools.
Our team are committed, passionate and expert teachers. You will find they are readily accessible to our students and quick to share their expert insights.
This Postgraduate Certificate puts all of this expertise within your reach, wherever you are in the world. You’ll receive regular personalised feedback and take part in interactive online teaching that keeps you engaged and supported.
A flexible approach From online seminars to group discussions and collaborative activities, the experience at Lancaster is rich, flexible, and designed with your success in mind.
If you choose the full-time route, you will take two modules in the first part of the academic year. These will be:
The course is designed for those from varied academic and professional backgrounds. You don’t need prior experience in linguistics or programming - just curiosity and a desire to explore how language works.
Whether you’re an educator, researcher, analyst, or just curious about language, this online course provides the tools and techniques you need to investigate language patterns and real-world discourse using large-scale data.
What will you study? During your studies, you will learn from experts in the field and will be given access to a wealth of corpus resources. You'll learn core techniques such as concordance, keyword, and collocation analysis, with practical applications in areas like media, marketing, healthcare, language teaching, and social research.
The programme is ideal for professionals or researchers in linguistics, education, data analysis, or related fields, and no prior knowledge of linguistics is required.
On the course you will:
Programme options We offer a suite of postgraduate level awards in Language Testing:
This flexibility is valuable to those who are combining study with work or other responsibilities, or who are unsure about entering postgraduate level study.
On successful completion of the Certificate, you will be eligible to join the Diploma or Master’s programme, with recognition of modules already taken allowing you to join at a midway point and a reduced fee. Similarly, after successfully completing the Diploma, you can join the Master’s programme and take only the remaining modules. If you complete the Certificate or Diploma and wish to take a break from studies, you can return within a designated timeframe and ‘trade in’ your award to join the Diploma or Master’s with recognition of your prior learning and the credit which you earned.
- Choose a university with a global reputation for excellence in corpus linguistics, and one of the only universities worldwide to offer full qualifications in this area
- Learn from world-leading experts in the field of corpus linguistics and language data analysis
- Gain advanced skills in language data analysis valued by employers across domains and industries
- Access Lancaster University’s extensive online resources and interact with peers and your tutors via our virtual learning site
- Join this programme from anywhere in the world, regardless of time zone
We are home to the ESRC research Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, delivering world-leading work in corpus-based language data science. We’ve developed major corpora such as the British National Corpus 2014 and the Trinity Lancaster Corpus and led innovations in digital analysis tools.
Our researchers are internationally recognised for their work in applying corpus approaches to the real world, from misinformation and social media discourse to education and public health communication, as well as the development and evaluation of GenAI tools.
Our team are committed, passionate and expert teachers. You will find they are readily accessible to our students and quick to share their expert insights.
This Postgraduate Certificate puts all of this expertise within your reach, wherever you are in the world. You’ll receive regular personalised feedback and take part in interactive online teaching that keeps you engaged and supported.
A flexible approach From online seminars to group discussions and collaborative activities, the experience at Lancaster is rich, flexible, and designed with your success in mind.
If you choose the full-time route, you will take two modules in the first part of the academic year. These will be:
- Fundamentals of Corpus Linguistics
- Corpus Design, Construction and Annotation.
- Corpora and New Technologies in Language Teaching
- Corpus Data Analysis: Research Design, Statistics and Visualisation
- Corpus-based Discourse Analysis
The course is designed for those from varied academic and professional backgrounds. You don’t need prior experience in linguistics or programming - just curiosity and a desire to explore how language works.
Whether you’re an educator, researcher, analyst, or just curious about language, this online course provides the tools and techniques you need to investigate language patterns and real-world discourse using large-scale data.
What will you study? During your studies, you will learn from experts in the field and will be given access to a wealth of corpus resources. You'll learn core techniques such as concordance, keyword, and collocation analysis, with practical applications in areas like media, marketing, healthcare, language teaching, and social research.
The programme is ideal for professionals or researchers in linguistics, education, data analysis, or related fields, and no prior knowledge of linguistics is required.
On the course you will:
- Gain a strong foundation in core corpus linguistic methods such as concordance analysis, wordlists, keyword and collocation analysis
- Learn key methods for analysing large collections of language data (corpora) using cutting-edge digital tools like #LancsBox and CQPweb
- Use quantitative methods to identify patterns in large language datasets and combine them with qualitative data analysis and interpretation
- Discuss advantages and challenges of combining corpus analysis with AI-powered tools
- Explore how corpora are used in fields such as sociolinguistics, media analysis healthcare communication, and language teaching
Programme options We offer a suite of postgraduate level awards in Language Testing:
- Postgraduate Certificate in Corpus Linguistics (Online) – 2 modules
- Postgraduate Diploma in Corpus Linguistics (Online) – 4 modules
- Master’s in Corpus Linguistics (Online) - 4 modules plus dissertation
This flexibility is valuable to those who are combining study with work or other responsibilities, or who are unsure about entering postgraduate level study.
On successful completion of the Certificate, you will be eligible to join the Diploma or Master’s programme, with recognition of modules already taken allowing you to join at a midway point and a reduced fee. Similarly, after successfully completing the Diploma, you can join the Master’s programme and take only the remaining modules. If you complete the Certificate or Diploma and wish to take a break from studies, you can return within a designated timeframe and ‘trade in’ your award to join the Diploma or Master’s with recognition of your prior learning and the credit which you earned.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Linguistics
Degree
Other
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
Online
Why Lancaster?
We are home to the ESRC research Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, delivering world-leading work in corpus-based language data science. We’ve developed major corpora such as the British National Corpus 2014 and the Trinity Lancaster Corpus and led innovations in digital analysis tools.
Our researchers are internationally recognised for their work in applying corpus approaches to the real world, from misinformation and social media discourse to education and public health communication, as well as the development and evaluation of GenAI tools.
Our team are committed, passionate and expert teachers. You will find they are readily accessible to our students and quick to share their expert insights.
This Postgraduate Certificate puts all of this expertise within your reach, wherever you are in the world. You’ll receive regular personalised feedback and take part in interactive online teaching that keeps you engaged and supported.
A flexible approach From online seminars to group discussions and collaborative activities, the experience at Lancaster is rich, flexible, and designed with your success in mind.
If you choose the full-time route, you will take two modules in the first part of the academic year. These will be:
The course is designed for those from varied academic and professional backgrounds. You don’t need prior experience in linguistics or programming - just curiosity and a desire to explore how language works.
Whether you’re an educator, researcher, analyst, or just curious about language, this online course provides the tools and techniques you need to investigate language patterns and real-world discourse using large-scale data.
What will you study? During your studies, you will learn from experts in the field and will be given access to a wealth of corpus resources. You'll learn core techniques such as concordance, keyword, and collocation analysis, with practical applications in areas like media, marketing, healthcare, language teaching, and social research.
The programme is ideal for professionals or researchers in linguistics, education, data analysis, or related fields, and no prior knowledge of linguistics is required.
On the course you will:
Programme options We offer a suite of postgraduate level awards in Language Testing:
This flexibility is valuable to those who are combining study with work or other responsibilities, or who are unsure about entering postgraduate level study.
On successful completion of the Certificate, you will be eligible to join the Diploma or Master’s programme, with recognition of modules already taken allowing you to join at a midway point and a reduced fee. Similarly, after successfully completing the Diploma, you can join the Master’s programme and take only the remaining modules. If you complete the Certificate or Diploma and wish to take a break from studies, you can return within a designated timeframe and ‘trade in’ your award to join the Diploma or Master’s with recognition of your prior learning and the credit which you earned.
- Choose a university with a global reputation for excellence in corpus linguistics, and one of the only universities worldwide to offer full qualifications in this area
- Learn from world-leading experts in the field of corpus linguistics and language data analysis
- Gain advanced skills in language data analysis valued by employers across domains and industries
- Access Lancaster University’s extensive online resources and interact with peers and your tutors via our virtual learning site
- Join this programme from anywhere in the world, regardless of time zone
We are home to the ESRC research Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, delivering world-leading work in corpus-based language data science. We’ve developed major corpora such as the British National Corpus 2014 and the Trinity Lancaster Corpus and led innovations in digital analysis tools.
Our researchers are internationally recognised for their work in applying corpus approaches to the real world, from misinformation and social media discourse to education and public health communication, as well as the development and evaluation of GenAI tools.
Our team are committed, passionate and expert teachers. You will find they are readily accessible to our students and quick to share their expert insights.
This Postgraduate Certificate puts all of this expertise within your reach, wherever you are in the world. You’ll receive regular personalised feedback and take part in interactive online teaching that keeps you engaged and supported.
A flexible approach From online seminars to group discussions and collaborative activities, the experience at Lancaster is rich, flexible, and designed with your success in mind.
If you choose the full-time route, you will take two modules in the first part of the academic year. These will be:
- Fundamentals of Corpus Linguistics
- Corpus Design, Construction and Annotation.
- Corpora and New Technologies in Language Teaching
- Corpus Data Analysis: Research Design, Statistics and Visualisation
- Corpus-based Discourse Analysis
The course is designed for those from varied academic and professional backgrounds. You don’t need prior experience in linguistics or programming - just curiosity and a desire to explore how language works.
Whether you’re an educator, researcher, analyst, or just curious about language, this online course provides the tools and techniques you need to investigate language patterns and real-world discourse using large-scale data.
What will you study? During your studies, you will learn from experts in the field and will be given access to a wealth of corpus resources. You'll learn core techniques such as concordance, keyword, and collocation analysis, with practical applications in areas like media, marketing, healthcare, language teaching, and social research.
The programme is ideal for professionals or researchers in linguistics, education, data analysis, or related fields, and no prior knowledge of linguistics is required.
On the course you will:
- Gain a strong foundation in core corpus linguistic methods such as concordance analysis, wordlists, keyword and collocation analysis
- Learn key methods for analysing large collections of language data (corpora) using cutting-edge digital tools like #LancsBox and CQPweb
- Use quantitative methods to identify patterns in large language datasets and combine them with qualitative data analysis and interpretation
- Discuss advantages and challenges of combining corpus analysis with AI-powered tools
- Explore how corpora are used in fields such as sociolinguistics, media analysis healthcare communication, and language teaching
Programme options We offer a suite of postgraduate level awards in Language Testing:
- Postgraduate Certificate in Corpus Linguistics (Online) – 2 modules
- Postgraduate Diploma in Corpus Linguistics (Online) – 4 modules
- Master’s in Corpus Linguistics (Online) - 4 modules plus dissertation
This flexibility is valuable to those who are combining study with work or other responsibilities, or who are unsure about entering postgraduate level study.
On successful completion of the Certificate, you will be eligible to join the Diploma or Master’s programme, with recognition of modules already taken allowing you to join at a midway point and a reduced fee. Similarly, after successfully completing the Diploma, you can join the Master’s programme and take only the remaining modules. If you complete the Certificate or Diploma and wish to take a break from studies, you can return within a designated timeframe and ‘trade in’ your award to join the Diploma or Master’s with recognition of your prior learning and the credit which you earned.
Admission Requirements
2:2 Hons degree (UK or equivalent) in a related subject is normally required. We will also consider applications where you have a degree in other subjects and/or extensive relevant experience. In these cases, you should clearly demonstrate how your experience and skills have prepared you for postgraduate study.
Please see our website for more details.
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