Linguistics (E99) (Taught)

This postgraduate diploma explores the fundamental roles language plays across diverse personal and professional settings. You’ll examine the core components of linguistic study, engaging with theoretical approaches to language and how its building blocks construct meaning. You’ll also gain experience applying different methodologies of analysis before choosing a specialist route. In the Applied Linguistics route, you’ll explore English language and linguistics in professional contexts, or in the Artificial Intelligence route, focus on the relationship between language use and evolving global technologies. This qualification enhances your expertise for communication-led careers and offers the option to progress to our MA in Linguistics.

Key features of the course

• Choose between specialising in applied linguistics or the use of artificial intelligence in linguistics

• Improve your professional practice by engaging with contemporary issues, concepts and debates that enrich your knowledge

• Become an independent and advanced scholar as you learn within and about your own context

To gain this qualification, you need 120 credits.

You’ll choose one of two specialist routes and study two 60-credit modules. You’ll begin with core concepts in linguistics before progressing to either applied linguistics in society or the relationship between language, society and artificial intelligence, depending on your chosen pathway.