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MPhil - Master of Philosophy
University of Oxford
Full Time
OCT-26
21 Months
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MPhil - Master of Philosophy
University of Oxford
Full Time
OCT-26
21 Months
Select a an exam type
The MPhil in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics is a taught course offering a range of options for graduates seeking a higher academic qualification in language studies and wishing to specialise in general linguistics (including phonetics but not applied linguistics), in historical and comparative linguistics, or in the linguistics of a specific language.
In addition to a compulsory paper in linguistic theory, you will specialise in general linguistics (B), Indo-European historical and comparative philology and linguistics (C) or in the linguistics of one or two selected languages (D).
You will select three options from the following range of topics:
You may also ask for one option in another subject in general linguistics approval will be subject to the availability of proper instruction and provision for examination. For students with substantial previous training in the subject, it is also possible to choose Computational Linguistics as an option.
Please note that not all options may be offered every year, depending on the availability of teaching.
You will select two ancient Indo-European languages or language groups (eg Greek, Italic, Celtic, Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Slavic). Three exam papers cover the comparative grammar, the historical grammar, and a number of set texts for linguistic commentary in the two languages or language groups.
You may select either ancient (eg Latin, Sanskrit) or modern languages (eg French, Italian, German, Slavic languages).
There will be three examination papers:
As a minimum, applicants should hold or be predicted to achieve the following UK qualifications or their equivalent:
a first-class or strong upper second-class undergraduate degree with honours in a relevant subject, for example in modern languages, classics, computer science, philosophy or mathematics.
However, entrance is very competitive and most successful applicants have a first-class degree or the equivalent.
While some applicants may have a background in linguistics or philology, few will have taken a full undergraduate course in these subjects. The backgrounds of entering students vary considerably, and the first-year curriculum is designed to bring every student to a general understanding of linguistic research, while not hindering progress in fields of special interest.
Students wishing to pursue Option C should have studied at least one of their chosen ancient Indo-European languages to degree level (though they need not have studied the linguistics of the language before). Students wishing to pursue Option D or paper B (vi) in History and Structure of a Language, should have a good grammatical knowledge of the language(s) they wish to pursue.
For applicants with a bachelor's degree from the USA, the minimum overall GPA that is normally required to meet the undergraduate-level requirement is 3.5 out of 4.0. However, most successful applicants have a GPA of 3.7.
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£1,493 month
Students from Domestic
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£3,644 month
Students from EU
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£3,644 month
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