48 monthsProgramme duration
33,300 GBPTuition Fee/year
13 Jan, 2027Application Deadline
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Linguistics
Degree
BA
Study Level
Bachelor's
Study Mode
On Campus
How is meaning created? How do we transfer an idea from one person to another? On this four-year course, you will develop your knowledge and expertise in linguistics theory. You may study evolutionary biology to shed light on the origins of language, deploy psychological and neuroscientific methods to observe language processing in the brain in real time, use philosophy and logic to analyse meaning, and put together field studies to learn more about languages from all over the world.
This course is essentially the same curriculum as our three-year Linguistics BA but you will complement your studies at UCL with a year spent abroad studying at one of our partner institutions. Please note that year abroad options are subject to change without notice. The course also shares many core elements with the Experimental Linguistics BSc course.
Linguists work across many different environments and industries, and this wide-ranging course reflects that variety. You might find yourself comparing how questions are formed in Russian and Swahili, exploring the factors that influence stuttering, or recording speakers’ dialects and accents for phonetic or sociolinguistic analysis.
In your first year, you’ll acquire a foundational understanding of the three core areas of grammatical description:
- Phonetics and phonology (how sounds are produced and perceived)
- Morphology and syntax (how words are formed and combined into sentences)
- Semantics and pragmatics (what sentences mean and how they are used)
As you progress into the second year, and alongside four compulsory modules, you’ll select four elective or optional modules, allowing you to tailor your course around your own interests and career goals. Your third year is the year abroad. You will gain further linguistic knowledge with exposure to research and education from another leading linguistics department. Places at individual partner institutions are competitive and subject to availability. In order to qualify for the study year abroad, you must maintain an average mark of 60% during each of your first two years.
Your undergraduate dissertation is the main focus of your final fourth year. It is the culmination of your studies where you will work with an academic supervisor to develop an original piece of research on a topic of your choice. Additionally, you will take three advanced modules from the core areas of linguistics, one intermediate or advanced module offered in an area of linguistics, and two further elective modules. Your elective modules can be studied within linguistics, but you may also choose modules from outside the department. Students studying a foreign language in Year 2 often continue this later in their studies.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Linguistics
Degree
BA
Study Level
Bachelor's
Study Mode
On Campus
How is meaning created? How do we transfer an idea from one person to another? On this four-year course, you will develop your knowledge and expertise in linguistics theory. You may study evolutionary biology to shed light on the origins of language, deploy psychological and neuroscientific methods to observe language processing in the brain in real time, use philosophy and logic to analyse meaning, and put together field studies to learn more about languages from all over the world.
This course is essentially the same curriculum as our three-year Linguistics BA but you will complement your studies at UCL with a year spent abroad studying at one of our partner institutions. Please note that year abroad options are subject to change without notice. The course also shares many core elements with the Experimental Linguistics BSc course.
Linguists work across many different environments and industries, and this wide-ranging course reflects that variety. You might find yourself comparing how questions are formed in Russian and Swahili, exploring the factors that influence stuttering, or recording speakers’ dialects and accents for phonetic or sociolinguistic analysis.
In your first year, you’ll acquire a foundational understanding of the three core areas of grammatical description:
- Phonetics and phonology (how sounds are produced and perceived)
- Morphology and syntax (how words are formed and combined into sentences)
- Semantics and pragmatics (what sentences mean and how they are used)
As you progress into the second year, and alongside four compulsory modules, you’ll select four elective or optional modules, allowing you to tailor your course around your own interests and career goals. Your third year is the year abroad. You will gain further linguistic knowledge with exposure to research and education from another leading linguistics department. Places at individual partner institutions are competitive and subject to availability. In order to qualify for the study year abroad, you must maintain an average mark of 60% during each of your first two years.
Your undergraduate dissertation is the main focus of your final fourth year. It is the culmination of your studies where you will work with an academic supervisor to develop an original piece of research on a topic of your choice. Additionally, you will take three advanced modules from the core areas of linguistics, one intermediate or advanced module offered in an area of linguistics, and two further elective modules. Your elective modules can be studied within linguistics, but you may also choose modules from outside the department. Students studying a foreign language in Year 2 often continue this later in their studies.
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