Study Programme
The M.A. Programme
This programme consists of compulsory courses and electives offered in two Modules: Research methods and Language in Social Communication. The general overview is available here:
Elective courses you may expect during your two-year M.A. degree
(The list is not exhaustive and the exact offer will depend on teacher availability in a given academic year)
RESEARCH METHODS
- Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing
- Linguistic experiments
- Eye tracking research
- EEG research and data analysis
- Acoustic analysis and Praat scripting
- Fieldwork in sociolinguistics
- Second Language Acquisition
- Computational linguist’s toolkit
- Data science
- Language Typology
- Language documentation and revitalisation
- Social Network Analysis
- Rhetoric
- Word formation
- Modern syntax
- Clinical linguistics
- Forensic Phonetics
- Cognitive psychology
- Selected topics in phonology
- Corpus phonetics and forced data alignment
- Automatic Speech Recognition
- Machine learning for linguistic applications
- Practical tools for programming and running studies
- Linear mixed models in statistical analysis
- Working with Git and SQL
LANGUAGE IN SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
- Language and Identity
- Intercultural Dialogue
- Multilingualism
- Language and the brain
- Accents of English
- Language variation and change
- Language contact
- Historical comparative linguistics
- The bilingual brain
- Media Discourses
- Language and Power
- Communication on the Internet
- Interpersonal aspects of social communication
- Language and social change
- Language in Voice User Interfaces
- Practical aspects of using large language models (LLM)
- Neurodidactics
- Social semiotics
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Narrative Analysis
- Ergonomics and accessibility in language services, research and practice
- Sign language and the deaf community