This joint honours degree explores how language works, how it’s structured, interpreted and used, alongside key philosophical questions and thinking. Studying linguistics will allow you to develop an understanding of human communication using approaches from the arts and sciences to equip you with a variety of skills. Compulsory and optional modules will allow you to explore topics such as language acquisition, syntax, language change and processing as well as phonetics – the study of how speech sounds are physically produced. In philosophy, you can explore fundamental questions about how we understand the world, through studying key concepts and topics such as argument construction, moral and political philosophy, the nature of knowledge and reality, and philosophy of language. You’ll also explore applied philosophy in topics such as bioethics, race, gender, and the philosophy of war and terrorism.Specialist facilitiesLeeds has fantastic resources for studying a Linguistics and Philosophy joint honours degree, with a unique focus on understanding speech production and interaction.Our facilities include a fully equipped phonetics lab for speech analysis, a recording studio and a range of other resources to help with experimental and corpus-based research.Our libraries are valuable assets for your studies, including archives of specialist manuscripts, and a huge range of digital sources, books, journals and corpora of written and spoken language. You’ll have access to free classes and workshops on how to use these resources to provide you with excellent digital literacy skills.Take a look around our libraries:Brotherton LibraryLaidlaw LibraryEdward Boyle Library