Year 1: Introduction to linguistics (sounds and structures of language); language, society and power (wide range of socio-linguistics issues); hands-on language (practical project involving collection and analysis of data); meaning in language (how words make sense).

Years 2-3: Courses give both broad and detailed knowledge of significant areas of language studies, training students in language analysis and in critical evaluation of a range of theories relating to the field. Core courses include: history of the English language; English in its social context; discourse and conversation analysis; phonetics and phonology. Topic courses focus on specialised areas of language study, including: language acquisition; language in the media; language and gender; conversational narrative; pidgins and Creoles; morphology and psycholinguistics.