BSc Language and Linguistics
About this course
BSc (Hons) Language and Linguistics is an undergraduate degree exploring the structural, social, and psychological dimensions of human communication. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Clinical Skills, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The course offers an optional counselling studies specialism through designated module choices. The first year covers the foundations through Communication and Language and How language works. The second year introduces Children's Language, Analysing Language I, and Analysing Language II, alongside optional modules such as Varieties of English and Nature and Contexts of Counselling. Subsequent years progress through Talk, Interaction and Social Organisation, Linguistic Theory I, Semantics, and Research Methods in Linguistics, while later stages offer optional modules including Researching Talk, Linguistic Interfaces, and Current Issues in Linguistics. The final year involves independent research culminating in the Dissertation in Linguistics and the Literature Review in Linguistics.
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Entry requirements
Applicants should satisfy the University General Requirements e.g. 1. Provide evidence of competence in written and spoken English (GCSE English Language grades A-C/ 4-9 or equivalent); and 2. Provide evidence of passes in five subjects, two of which must be at A level (grades A-E) and three at GCSE level (grades A-C/4-9); or 3. Provide evidence of passes in four subjects, three of which must be at A level (grades A-E) and one at GCSE level (grades A- C/4-9); or 4. Provide evidence of an approved qualification at an equivalent level such as a BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma or Access to Higher Education qualification or equivalent; or 5. Provide evidence, for a process of formal accreditation by the University, of learning you have gained through work or other experience.
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Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 20 students who started, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 80%
- Left higher education: 20%
Who gets in
Based on about 15 students who started, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 20%
- Access course: 5%
- A degree: 45%
- Other HE qualification: 20%
- No formal qualifications: 5%
Modules
- Communication and Language
- How language works
- Children's Language
- Analysing Language I
- Analysing Language II
- Varieties of English
- Nature and Contexts of Counselling
- Talk, Interaction and Social Organisation
- Linguistic Theory I
- Counselling Theory
- Semantics
- Language Acquisition
- Research Methods in Linguistics
- Issues in morphology and morphosyntax
- Researching Talk
- Language Acquisition
- Developing the Reflective Practitioner
- Linguistic Interfaces
- Literature Review in Linguistics
- Current Issues in Linguistics
- Structure and History of English
- Investigating Ellipsis
- Dissertation in Linguistics
Questions about this course
How many students continue on BSc Language and Linguistics at Ulster University?
80% of students continued into their second year, and 20% left higher education.