BA (Hons) Linguistics at Newcastle University

Explore how language works and how it's structured, from the physical properties of speech to how languages change over time. You'll explore linguistics in relation to English and other languages to build a firm base of skills and knowledge. This will open up many career paths to you - from journalism and data science to teaching or further postgraduate study.

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences  |  Department: School of English Literature Language and Linguistics  |  Duration: Full time: 3 years  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Your first year lays the foundation for analysing and describing language, focusing on topics such as word and sentence structure (morphology and syntax) and the sounds and sound systems of language (phonetics and phonology). Alongside your Linguistics modules, you will also choose one foreign language from a choice of French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Latin or Ancient Greek. Compulsory modules include: The Nature of Language, Introduction to the Structure of Language 1: Phonetics, Phonology & Morphology, Introduction to Language Structure 2: Syntax, semantics and pragmatics, Dealing with Data.

Career pathways

Linguistics students acquire a range of valuable skills which equip them to pursue diverse career paths. You will gain skills such as critical reasoning and problem-solving, project and data management, oral and written communication, collaboration and independent research. Graduate roles and employers include: teaching English as a foreign language; publishing and journalism; advertising, branding and marketing; law and policy; information services and data science; lexicographers; translators and interpreters; speech and language therapists; social researchers; legal sector workers (including forensic linguists).

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