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

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