Language Technology as a subsidiary area: BA programme 2014-17
UNIVERSITY OF MALTA
Institute of Linguistics
Programme of Studies
2014-2017
(for courses commencing October 2014 and later)
Language Technology as a subsidiary area
YEAR ONE 2014 - 2015
Year (These study-units start in Semester 1 and continue in Semester 2).
Compulsory Units (All students must register for these units).
LIN1070
Grammar
LIN1190
An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology for HLT Students
LIN1080
Meaning
4 ECTS
4 ECTS
4 ECTS
Semester 1
Compulsory Units (All students must register for these units).
LIN1121
Language for humans and machines
LIN1024
Hands-on Language
4 ECTS
4 ECTS
Workload this semester: 14 compulsory ECTS, of which 6 from the year-long study units
Semester 2
Compulsory Units (All students must register for these units).
LIN1122
Language for humans and machines 2
Workload this semester: 12 compulsory ECTS, of which 6 from the year-long study units
Workload this year: 26 ECTS
Requirement for regular progression to YEAR II:
Total B.A. this year:
26 ECTS in Language Technology
26 ECTS in the other main area
8 ECTS in optional study units
60 ECTS
1
6 ECTS
Language Technology as a subsidiary area: BA programme 2014-17
YEAR TWO (2015 - 2016)
Note:
Students need to select 10 ECTS from among the elective study units in Year 2
Year
Elective study units
LIN2155
Developmental Psycholinguistics: The acquisition of a first language
6 ECTS
Semester 1
Elective study units
LIN2020
Models of Grammar
LIN2590
Discourse and Dialogue
ICS1251
Python Programming: A practical introduction*
LIN2190
Segmental Phonology
LIN1032
Formal Foundations for Linguistics
4 ECTS
4 ECTS
6 ECTS
2 ECTS
4 ECTS
Semester 2
Elective study units
LIN1301
Quantitative Approaches to Natural Language Analysis
ICS1133
Natural Language Programming *
LIN2580
Computational Lexical Semantics
LIN2083
Issues in Semantics and Pragmatics
LIN3098
Corpus Linguistics
LIN2290
Suprasegmental Phonology
4 ECTS
4 ECTS
4 ECTS
4 ECTS
4 ECTS
2 ECTS
* These study units involve programming. This is introduced from scratch in ICS1251, which does not assume
prior programming knowledge.
Requirement for regular progression to YEAR III: 10 ECTS in Language Technology
2