Bachelor of Arts - Linguistics

University of Canterbury

With over 30 subjects to choose from you can customise your BA degree to suit your interests and career path. Over the three years of your BA degree you will gain the critical thinking, creative problem-solving, and communication skills that employers want. Practical experiences such as internships are on offer too. Bachelor of Arts specialisation option You can also do a BA with a specialisation pathway. Specialisations include a set programme of courses centred on a broad theme. These allow you to develop expertise in more subjects than a major, as well as the opportunity to customise your study to your particular interests. See the Bachelor of Arts - Specialisations. Study Involve: Choose from over 30 Arts subjects as your major and minor, or double major. Many courses offer field trips, real-world case studies, performances, internships, and community projects. You have the option to study a minor from additional subjects across Arts, Commerce, Digital Screen, Health, Product Design, Science, Sport, and Youth and Community Leadership. Get involved with some of the many Arts related student clubs including Arts Society, Japan Society, Classoc, and Musoc.Linguistics is the analysis of languages - from structure, how and why they change, to the way we learn and our unique way of speaking. By understanding how language is a part of everything we do, you can better understand how communication shapes our identity, relationships, and way of life. Study Involve: Opportunity to learn from research conducted here at UC. UC offers many language studies to complement Linguistics, such as Te Reo Maori, Chinese, Russian, and Japanese. Study a minor in Linguistics within a range of bachelor’s degrees so you can add communication skills and knowledge to other subjects.

Faculty of Arts