Linguistics as a Minor subject from Year 2
1. Why study Linguistics as a Minor?
You can choose to study Linguistics as a minor subject from Year 2 (Senior Fresh).
Linguistics often appeals to students who are curious about language as one of the most fascinating aspects of human knowledge and behaviour. Perhaps you are interested in accents, dialects, or slang, or you are a good learner of languages, or you are intrigued by how language changes over time, or you wonder how humans manage to learn and produce language. Linguistics is also appealing to those who enjoy detailed, problem-solving analysis and careful argumentation. It involves key transferable skills in problem solving and critical thinking.
Linguists investigate how language works; how patterns of sounds, words and sentences combine to convey meaning. Language is fundamental to nearly every aspect of human experience: how we communicate, our sense of identity, how we interact socially, how we think. Linguists explore all these areas and more. They study everyday language use, how it varies and changes geographically, socially and across time, and how children acquire language. Some make computational models of speech and language based on collections of spoken and written language.
2. What you’ll study
In the second year of the Linguistics course you will learn about many aspects of human language, including how sounds are produced and perceived (phonetics and phonology), how words are combined to form sentences (syntax), how meanings are expressed (semantics).
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Depending on your chosen pathway, you will be taking modules among the following:
Second Year
- LIU11009 Syntax I
- LIU11010 Phonetics and Phonology I
- LIU11011 Semantics I
- LIU11013 First Language Acquisition
Third Year
- LIU22005 Syntax II
- LIU22008 Phonology II
- LIU22009 Morphology
- LIU22012 Pragmatics I
Fourth Year
- LIU33005 Discourse Analysis
- LIU33006 Research Methodology
- LIU33007 Second Language Acquisition
- LIU33008 Semantics II
- LIU33009 Applied Linguistics II
- LIU33010 Historical Linguistics
- LIU33011 Phonetics II
- LIU33012 Introduction to Sign Linguistics II