* Visa/residence permit, Books
The Admissions Office will evaluate your eligibility on the basis of 4 criteria:
Secondary school diploma
Mathematics proficiency
UvA Matching
During this Bachelor’s, you must be able to read textbooks, understand lectures, participate in classroom discussions and complete written assignments in English. Therefore, you have to verify your English proficiency (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR): level C1) in your application.
Proof of sufficient English language proficiency
The requirement for sufficient English language proficiency can be met in one of the following ways:
By completing English-taught secondary education in Australia, Canada (with the exception of Quebec), Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom or the United States of America;
By obtaining an International Baccalaureate diploma in English;
By obtaining a European Baccalaureate diploma, with the subject English as first or second language (minimum final score result: 6);
By obtaining a French Diplôme du Baccalauréat Général with the Option Internationale du Baccalauréat (OIB), section britannique/américaine;
By submitting a valid English language proficiency test certificate. Please see below for the approved tests and minimum scores.
If your diploma is not mentioned above, please consult the diploma calculator to see if your prior education exempts you from taking the English language proficiency test.
Approved tests and minimum scores:
TOEFL IBT: a minimum of 92 points overall and a minimum of 22 points for each sub-score (TOEFL institution code: 9011). The TOEFL Home Edition is allowed for the September 2022 intake.
IELTS (Academic test): a minimum of 6.5 overall and a minimum of 6.0 for each sub-score. The IELTS indicator test is not allowed.
Cambridge Assessment English
Certificate in Advanced English: 180 points overall and in each skill or
Certificate of Proficiency in English: 180 points overall and in each skill.
Test scores must also conform to the following guidelines:
Make sure you schedule your English proficiency test before the application deadline.
Test scores received after the application deadline are accepted, as long as your English proficiency test was taken before the application deadline.
Your English proficiency test score cannot be more than 2 years old before the start date of your programme. For example, if you are applying for the September 2022 intake we do not accept English proficiency tests taken before September 2020.
Be sure to plan your test on time; test dates fill quickly and it can take several weeks for you to receive your results. Applications without a sufficient score or with a test date after the application deadline, will not be accepted.
Language is present in all aspects of our daily lives and our capacity to use it makes human beings unique as a species. In the Bachelor's programme in Linguistics, you will explore both the structure and acquisition of language as well as the diversity of language around the world
Understanding language
Linguistics focuses on our uniquely human capacity to use language – something indispensable in our daily life. As a linguist, you are interested in how language and speech are structured, how we acquire we language, how it can be impaired, how it is represented in the brain, how it functions in society, how we deal with 2, 3, or 4 languages at the same time, and how it changes. All of these questions are addressed in this broad Bachelor's programme in Linguistics.
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The first year
The first year of the programme offers a broad, general overview of the entire discipline of Linguistics.
You will take a course (Introduction to Linguistics) in which you learn all of the basic concepts that are relevant to a linguist.
You will become familiar with Phonetics, Morphology and Sociolinguistics.
You will choose a modern language (other than English), which we call your “Language X”. You will use the experience of acquiring this language in the theoretical courses where you will be asked to come up with certain phenomena in your language. For your Language X, you can choose from Arabic, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Romanian, or Sign Language of The Netherlands (NGT), and if you master Dutch, you can also opt for Classical Greek, French, Latin, Modern Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian/Croatian, Spanish, or Swedish.
You will develop specific academic skills, such as academic writing and conducting independent research.
At the end of the first year, you will conduct a small research project exploring the acquisition of a new language.
The second and third year
In the second and third years of the programme, you deepen your knowledge of linguistics and of subjects of your own choice.
You will take “structural” courses that teach you about the structure of sounds (Phonology), phrases and sentences (Syntax), and meaning (Semantics & Pragmatics), from various theoretical points of view, culminating in the Linguistic Theories project.
You will take additional courses on the acquisition and processing of language (First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Language & Speech Disorders), learning how to collect linguistic data and how such data can contribute to theories of linguistics and to theories of acquisition and processing.
You will take courses on methodology (Philosophy of Science, Speech Processing, Research Methods & Statistics).
In the third year of the programme, you can tailor your own curriculum by specialising in a minor in a field related to linguistics or in a completely different field of study, or by choosing electives in a wide range of subjects, perhaps including courses that deepen your knowledge of the Language X that you chose in the first year.
You also have the opportunity to use your elective credits to study abroad or do an internship for a semester.
You will conclude the programme by writing a Bachelor’s thesis, your first major piece of independent research.
As a Linguistics graduate, you will have developed unique academic abilities relevant to a career in your specific subject area, as well as a range of employment opportunities where a critical, curious, and independent disposition is essential.
Insurance: €420 per year
