The Undergraduate Degree in Linguistics (Linguistics Tripos)
Please also see the information for prospective undergraduates.
The Linguistics Tripos is divided into a one-year Part I and a two-year Part II, with Part II being subdivided into Parts IIA and IIB.
- Part I, where you follow four lecture series, provides a foundation across a wide range of linguistics taught within the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.
- Part II allows you to specialise in the areas which particularly interest you, and in both IIA and IIB there is a wide choice of lectures taught within and beyond the Department, the latter including the linguistics of particular languages. Part IIB includes an element of individual research as you write a dissertation on a topic of your choice.
Depending on your interests, you can approach the Linguistics Tripos in several ways:
- If you wish to study just linguistics, you can focus exclusively on this subject.
- If you are interested in combining some linguistics with other subjects, you can borrow one or more papers taught by the Department within the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos. Students in some other Faculties can also borrow one linguistics paper.
- It is also possible to do Part II of the Linguistics Tripos having completed Part I in another subject.
For more details about the papers available in each part of the Tripos, please select that part from the menu on the left hand side of this screen.
Please also see:
- Summary of the Linguistics Tripos
- Recommended reading
- Further study
- Faculty information on supervisions
- Marking criteria
- Research facilities
- Faculty policy on plagiarism
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