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Study programme Linguistics and Communication Sciences year 2
Study year
2
Year 2 consists of a few compulsory courses with a course load of 21 EC. In addition, you’ll follow elective courses with a course load of 9 EC. The Master's will be completed with a Master’s Thesis consisting of 30 EC. A schematic overview of the programme can be found here.
Total EC
60 EC
Compulsory courses
P1
P2
P3
P4
9 EC
- P1
- P2
- P1
- P2
6 EC
- P1
- P2
Elective courses
P1
P2
P3
P4
Specialisation course
6 EC
- P1
Skills/Method elective
3 EC
- P2
Specialisation courses
During your second year, you choose one specialisation course from the list below, totaling 6 ECs:
- Text and Multimedia Mining
- (Automatic) Speech Recognition
- Non-nativeness in Communication
- Speech Production and Comprehension
- Intro to Language and Speech Technology
- Multimodal Language and Cognition
- Technology-Enhanced Language Learning
- Child Bilingualism
- Computational Psycholinguistics
- Syntax in the Lab
- Conversational AI
- Interactional Socioling. Global Perspectives
- Aspects of Language Assessment
- Research Topics in Second Language Acquisition
- Perspectives on Language Variation
- Aspects of Intercultural Incompetence
- Diversity in Communication
- Internet Outrage
- Words in Speaking and Listening
- First Language Acquisition
- Using and Acquiring Multiple Languages
- Neurobiology of Language
- Socially Contextualised Languages
Note: Some courses are offered in alternate years.
Skills/Method Courses
During your second year, you choose one skills/methods course from the list below, totaling 3 ECs:
- Academic Writing
- Apprenticeship Research Methods
- Text and Multimedia Research Project
- Eye Tracking
- Introduction in R Statistics
- Transformer-Based Models
- Python 1
- Python 2
- EEG
- Mixed Models in Practice
Note: Some courses are offered in alternate years.
Thesis & research
P1
P2
P3
P4
30 EC
- P3
- P4