Linguistics BA programme 2015-2018
UNIVERSITY OF MALTA Institute of Linguistics Programme of Studies 2015-­‐2018 (for courses commencing October 2015 and later)
Linguistics General YEAR ONE (2015-16)
Year (These study-units start in Semester 1 and continue in Semester 2)
Compulsory Study Units (All students must register for these units)
LIN1070 Grammar I
LIN1080 Meaning
LIN1090 General Phonetics
4
4
4
Nc
Nc
Nc
Semester 1
Compulsory Study Units (All students must register for these units)
LIN1024
Hands-on Language
LIN1121
Language for humans and machines
Linguistics workload this semester: 14
4
4
Recommended Optional Units (Students are strongly recommended to choose these as part of
their optional complement)
LIN1065
Academic Speaking in English
2
Semester 2
Compulsory Study Units (All students must register for these units)
LIN1063 Academic Reading and Writing in English
LIN1120 Language, Cognition and Society
Linguistics workload this semester: 12
2
4
Linguistics workload this year: 26
N.B. B.A. and B.A. (Honours) students are reminded that during their first year of study they are
required to register for study units from their subsidiary area programme of study to the value of
28 ECTS and to also register for optional study units, which may be taken from any area of study
(including from their main or subsidiary area), to the value of 4 ECTS.
Requirement for regular progression to YEAR II:
Total B.A. (Honours) this year:
1
26 ECTS in Linguistics
26 ECTS in the other main area
8 ECTS in optional study units
60 ECTS
Linguistics BA programme 2015-2018
YEAR TWO (2016 - 2017)
Year (These study-units start in Semester 1 and continue in semester 2)
Compulsory study units (All students must register for these units)
LIN2055 Developmental Psycholinguistics: The acquisition of a first language
8
Elective study units
LIN2024 From Data to Theory in Linguistics
4
Semester 1
Compulsory study units (All students must register for these units)
LIN2022 Models of Grammar
LIN2190 Segmental Phonology
Linguistics workload this semester: 10
Elective study units
LIN1017
Maltese Sign Language 1 for Linguistics Students
LIN1032
Formal Foundations for Linguistics
LIN2020
Grammatical Categories
LIN2290
Suprasegmental Phonology
LIN2034
Conversation Analysis
Semester 2
Compulsory study units (All students must register for these units)
LIN2083 Issues in Semantics and Pragmatics
Linguistics workload this semester: 8
Elective study units
LIN2017
Maltese Sign Language 2 for Linguistics Students
LIN2032
Quantitative Research Methods in Linguistics
LIN2099
Acoustic Phonetics: Preliminaries
ENG2018
Historical and Regional Variation in English I
Linguistics workload this year: 18
Electives to be selected in Linguistics: 8
Requirement for regular progression to YEAR III:
Total B.A. this year:
2
26 credits in Linguistics
26 credits in the other main area
8 credits in optional study units
60 credits
4
2
2
4
4
2
4
4
2
4
2
2
Linguistics BA programme 2015-2018
YEAR THREE (2017 - 2018)
Year (These study-units start in Semester 1 and continue in semester 2)
Compulsory Study Units (All students must register for these units)
LIN3003
Synoptic Study Unit: Topics in General Linguistics
LIN3004
Synoptic Study Unit: Interdisciplinary Linguistics
Semester 1
Compulsory Study Units (All students must register for these units)
LIN3010 Typology and Universals
LIN3060 Current issues in Linguistics
Linguistics workload this semester: 14
Elective Study Units
LIN2171
An Introduction to Sign Linguistics: Principles
LIN2172
Signwriting: An introduction
LIN2590
Discourse and Dialogue
LIN3190
Variation and Phonological Theory
LIN3301
Experimental Psycholinguistics
6
6
Nc
Nc
4
4
2
2
4
2
4
Semester 2
Linguistics workload this semester: 6
Elective Study Units
LIN2301 Experimental Techniques and Paradigms
LIN3095 Writing Systems
LIN3098 Corpus Linguistics
4
4
4
Linguistics workload this year: 20
Electives to be selected in Linguistics: 8
Requirement for successful completion of Year III:
Total B.A. this year:
28 credits in Linguistics
28 credits in the other main area
4 credits in optional study units
60 credits
Note on non-compensatable units: Units marked as non-compensatable have been selected on
the basis of their being fundamental to an Honours or B.A. degree in Linguistics. All the units thus
marked represent core components of the course.
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