Linguistics and Philosophy BA

at University of Leeds

Combine Linguistics with Philosophy in a joint honours degree exploring how language works, how it is structured, interpreted and used, alongside key philosophical questions and thinking.

This degree will allow you to develop an understanding of human communication using approaches from the arts and sciences to equip you with a variety of skills. Core and optional modules will allow you to explore topics such as language acquisition, syntax, language change and processing as well as phonetics – the study of how speech sounds are physically produced.

You’ll also explore fundamental questions about how we understand the world. Through core and optional modules, you’ll learn how to construct arguments and study key topics such as ethics and logic, as well as specialist knowledge in topics from ancient and moral philosophy to the ethics of life and death, philosophy of language or aesthetics.