Course summary

Immerse yourself in the English language. Discover how humans produce English and how English shapes human experience. Apply linguistic knowledge and theory to solve real-world problems. Learn from world-leading research in linguistics, language, psychology, education, and culture, and be empowered as an independent scholar, critical thinker, communicator, and problem-solver. This course engages you in the systematic study of language with a specific focus on English. You will learn to analyse the structure of English, and the ways people use English to structure the world. You will explore the evolution of English from a set of dialects on an island to a global lingua franca, and examine ways that English continues to change today. You will learn more generally about how language is formed, acquired, learned, and used. You will develop an extensive set of qualitative and quantitative research skills, and practise oral and written communication intensively. You will be eminently employable in careers ranging from marketing to publishing to media to teaching English internationally, and may pursue further study toward fields like speech pathology, forensic linguistics, or computational speech recognition.