Below we've provided some information on the on-campus courses hosted by our colleagues at the Language and Lingustics department, University of Essex. Please click on the links and contact the University of Essex directly for further information.
"Everything starts with language. Language starts here.
Language is fundamental to our thoughts, relationships and cultures."
The above is taken from the department of Language and Linguistics page at the University of Essex
MA Applied Linguistics
More detail here. Applied linguistics addresses real-life language problems through insights gained from current linguistic theory, psychology and education.
MA English Language and Linguistics
More detail here. Conduct an in-depth study of the grammar of English. Learn about dialectal and social variation, language change and the pragmatics of language use, and study varieties of English used around the world.
MA Linguistics
More detail here. Study the nuts and bolts of language: sound systems, word structure, sentence structure, and how meaning is conveyed. Learn about the different theories that have been proposed to account for human linguistic ability. In this degree you will learn what human languages share, and where they differ.
MA Psycholinguistics
More detail here. Discover how insights from linguistics help to explain how humans learn, understand and use languages. Our MA Psycholinguistics provides you with a thorough grounding in research from the perspective of linguistics on human language processing, the representation of language in the brain, and first and second language acquisition.
MRes Linguistics
More detail here. Study languages from across the world, from their sounds and structures to their social functions. You explore what features are shared across all languages, and what the significance of their differences are.