Linguistics - Study Abroad (Hons) Lancaster University

Overview

The Linguistics - Study Abroad (Hons) course from Lancaster University will provide you with a skill set that opens doors to a range of exciting and rewarding careers. You will develop transferable skills that include a capacity for critical thinking, an ability to gather, organise and analyse large quantities of data, and an aptitude for generating new and innovative ideas.

You’ll have the chance to develop specialist skills in the lexical and grammatical analysis of real and constructed languages, the acoustic analysis of speech, and computer programming for language technologies, skills valued by current and emerging industries which capitalise on generative AI.

There are plenty of opportunities to build on your skills outside of the classroom. Each year we invite current students to apply for a research internship. These are paid roles in which our students work closely with academic members of staff on active research projects. You would gain advanced research skills that are valuable in a variety of employment settings. Recently, our students have worked as interns on the following projects:

• What makes language(s) easier or harder to learn?
• Analysing AI-Generated Speech
• The role of creativity and working memory in second language writing performance

Career opportunities:

A degree in linguistics gives you access to a range of exciting and rewarding career paths, in linguistics roles and much broader occupations and industries. In our increasingly digital world, we continuously see new and innovative professional roles being created.

Some of our graduates have become:

• Speech and language therapists for the NHS and private sector organisations
• Marketing professionals in large corporations and small businesses
• Software engineers in the technology industry
• Researchers in primatology and neuroscience labs

In the future, we expect our graduates to go on to roles in:

• Developing chatbots
• Improving the quality of AI-generated voices
• Researching how humans interact with technology

This course also gives you the foundation for progressing into further study, with many graduates continuing to master’s and PhD study.

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