Overview:

The Language Sciences BSc examines language from a scientific and interdisciplinary perspective, bringing together ideas about how language is organised, understood and acquired. It offers students a broad framework for exploring the relationship between language, the mind and human communication.

What You'll Learn:

• Fundamental principles and concepts in language sciences

• The organisation and patterns of human language

• How people comprehend and produce spoken and written language

• Language development and the processes involved in language learning

• Links between language, cognition and behaviour

• Different academic approaches used to investigate language

• The use and interpretation of evidence in language-related research

• Critical discussion of theories concerning language and communication

Learning Outcomes:

By completing the course, students will be able to describe major concepts and perspectives within language sciences and explain how different disciplines contribute to the study of language. They will be able to analyse language-related questions using appropriate concepts and evidence, assess competing explanations and identify relationships between language, cognition and communication. Students will also develop structured approaches to interpreting information, evaluating arguments and presenting their understanding of language sciences clearly and effectively.