English Language and Linguistics

University of Glasgow
Postgraduate MSc Full-time 12 Months English language

About this course

This Masters will equip you with the key linguistic and technical research skills to explore the structure and everyday use of English, past and present, from Anglo-Saxon manuscripts to medieval letters, from speech to semantics, from language experiments to investigating vast text corpora. If you have little or no background in English Linguistics, we have a range of introductory courses which progress to more advanced courses, allowing you to develop theoretical and methodological background for you to carry out your own research study. If you have taken linguistics before, and want to deepen your interests, we offer advanced courses which will allow you to deepen your existing understanding and skills, to carry out your own research project.

WHY THIS PROGRAMME

  • You can study options from a wide range of historical and contemporary areas of English Language and Linguistics.

  • Its flexibility allows you to tailor the course to your own interests, so you can gain research expertise and key linguistic, technical, and study skills in the analysis of spoken and written English across all periods of English.

  • We cater both for students who have little or no background in linguistics and also for students with a background in language and linguistics who wish to carry out more sophisticated independent research in a particular area.

  • Your courses will be taught by expert academic staff who have directed and are currently directing research projects (e.g. Seeing Speech, Sounds of the City, One Speaker Two Dialects, the Scots Syntax Atlas (SCOSYA), Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) among others).

  • We have outstanding resources in English Language and Linguistics, such as the Glasgow University Archives, Special Collections (which includes a large collection of medieval and renaissance manuscripts and early printed books) and the Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics (with a speech recording studio).

  • You can, if you wish, select one or two of your options from other available courses in the College of Arts.

  • We have close links with the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities and the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science, giving you access to additional training courses for graduate students.

    PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

    You will take:

  • One core course

  • Five optional courses

    You will also produce an independent, small-scale research project.

    Semester One: September to December ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS - RESEARCH TRAINING (Core) Two optional courses

    Semester Two: January to March Three optional courses

    Summer: April to September MSC DISSERTATION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

    Optional Courses Optional courses (currently provisional) may include:

    Semester 1 HISTORY OF ENGLISH (PGT) INTRODUCTION TO PHONETICS (PGT) INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLINGUISTICS (PGT) SEMANTICS OF ENGLISH (PGT) INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLINGUISTICS (PGT) TOPICS IN PHONETICS TOPICS IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS EARLY MODERN MANUSCRIPTS FOR RESEARCH ONOMASTICS MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE 2 (PGT)

    Semester 2 CORPUS LINGUISTICS (PGT) APPROACHES TO SCOTS IN SPEECH AND TEXT LANGUAGE AND THE GLOBAL CAMPUS: LINGUISTIC ISSUES IN THE INTERNATIONALISATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION CRITICAL APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION EDITING HISTORICAL ENGLISHTEXTS (PGT) EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND DATA ANALYSIS INTRODUCTION TO OLDER SCOTS (PGT) MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE 1 (PGT) METHODS IN WRITTEN TEXT ANALYSIS METHODS IN PHONETICS (PGT) METHODS IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS (PGT) OLD ICELANDIC LANGUAGE (PGT) MULTILINGUALISM: INDIVIDUALS, INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY

    • Study Options

    This course is available in 2 study options:

    Full-time Shown above

    Duration: 12 Months

    Qualification: MSc

    Location: Glasgow

    Part-time

    Duration: 24 Months

    Qualification: MSc

    Location: Glasgow

    Career Prospects

    Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

    3412 Authors, writers and translators
    4135 Library clerks and assistants
    2472 Archivists, conservators and curators
    2471 Librarians
    2492 Newspaper and periodical broadcast journalists and reporters
    2115 Social and humanities scientists

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    Course Details

    Qualification
    MSc
    Study Mode
    Full-time
    Duration
    12 Months
    Start Date
    2025
    Academic Year
    2025
    Campus / Location
    Glasgow
    Scheme
    Postgraduate
    Subjects
    English language

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    University of Glasgow

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