MA Linguistic Studies
University of Essex
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Our MA Linguistic Studies is our broadest postgraduate degree, offering you the widest choice of options. You expand your knowledge of language through studying everything from syntax to computer-assisted language-learning, to language and gender, to language disorders, to multilingualism.You build a programme best suited to your individual needs. This course is ideal if you need to study on a part-time basis and wish to fit your course choices in with your existing commitments, as you can also ...Read more

Our MA Linguistic Studies is our broadest postgraduate degree, offering you the widest choice of options. You expand your knowledge of language through studying everything from syntax to computer-assisted language-learning, to language and gender, to language disorders, to multilingualism.

You build a programme best suited to your individual needs. This course is ideal if you need to study on a part-time basis and wish to fit your course choices in with your existing commitments, as you can also study on an accumulation basis over a period of up to five years.

Your future

Our course can lead to careers in areas such as academic research, publishing, journalism, administration, public service, and teaching. You develop key employability skills including research design, data analysis, thinking analytically, report writing and public speaking.

We work with the University’s Employability and Careers Centre to help you find out about further work experience, internships, placements, and voluntary opportunities.

Within our Department of Language and Linguistics, we also offer supervision for PhD and MPhil. We offer supervision in areas including language acquisition, language learning and language teaching, culture and communication, psycholinguistics, language disorders, sociolinguistics, and theoretical and descriptive linguistics.

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35/101
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30th
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Entry requirements

You need a 2:2 degree (or international equivalent) in the following disciplines: English Language studies – including education, English language and Literature, Teaching (English), Linguistics or Modern Languages. We will accept applicants with a degree in an unrelated area, but which contains a substantial element of education, Linguistics, Language studies and Teaching.

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£10,000 per year

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£21,700 per year

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£21,700 per year

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