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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
  1. P1
  2. P2
  1. P1
  2. P2
Elective courses
P1
P2
P3
P4
Specialisation course
6 EC
  1. P1
Skills/Method elective
3 EC
  1. 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
  1. P3
  2. P4