Second Major in LMS
To take Linguistics and Multilingual Studies as their second Major, students must obtain a minimum cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 4.0 in their first year at university.
Students who choose Linguistics and Multilingual Studies as their second Major are required to complete the 5 core courses below and at least 6 prescribed electives. At least 2 courses must be from the level 4000 courses. Total number of AUs earned must be at least 35 AUs.
Students who choose Linguistics and Multilingual Studies as their second Major are required to complete the 5 core courses below and at least 6 prescribed electives. At least 2 courses must be from the level 4000 courses. Total number of AUs earned must be at least 35 AUs.
5 CORE COURSES (15 AUs)
- HG1001 Mind and Meaning
- HG2034 Structure of Modern English
- HG2001 Morphology and Syntax
- HG2002 Semantics and Pragmatics
- HG2003 Phonetics and Phonology
6 PRESCRIBED ELECTIVES (20 AUs)
Language, Mind and Multilingualism
- HG2012 Cognitive Linguistics
- HG2013 Child Language
- HG2014 Second Language Acquisition
- HG2015 Investigating Literacy as Social and Textual Practice
- HG2016 Language and Music
- HG2030 Reading Development and Disorders
- HG3005 Research Methods in Linguistics II - Statistical Analysis
- HG3010 Language and Communication Disorders
- HG3012 Deaf Culture and Sign Language
- HG3016 Language and Cognition in Bilingualism and Multilingualism
- HG3017 Advanced Study of Language and Literacy in Infancy
- HG4011 Language and the Brain
- HG4013 Multilingualism Across the Lifespan
- HG4015 Psycholinguistics
- HG4047 Pragmatic Theory
Multilingual Societies and Multiculturalism
- HG2021 Intercultural Communication
- HG2023 Language and Gender
- HG2024 X-rated Linguistics: Language, Sexuality and Desire
- HG2032 Globalisation and World Englishes
- HG3021 Language Change
- HG3022 Sociolinguistics of a Region
- HG3024 A Wor(l)d in Motion
- HG3025 Language Variation
- HG4020 Languages in Contact
- HG4021 Language Shift and Maintenance
- HG4023 Language Planning and Policy
- HG4024 Social Theories and Language
- HG4031 Multimodality in Situated Contexts
Language Structure
- HG2017 Father-and-Mother tongues: Languages of SE Asia
- HG3042 Contrastive Linguistics
- HG3043 Malay Linguistics 1 - History and Structure
- HG3047 Experimenting with Spoken Language
- HG4012 Structure of Sign Language
- HG4040 Phonological Theory
- HG4041 Theories of Grammar
- HG4042 How and Why Languages Differ
- HG4043 Language Universals and Language Types
- HG4046 Malay Linguistics 2 - Dialectology and Language Contact
- HG4049 Semantic Analysis
- HG4070 Experimental Phonetics
- HG4071 The Meat of Speech: The Anatomy and Physiology of Speaking and Hearing
Language and Technology
- HG2051 Language and the Computer
- HG2052 Language, Technology and the Internet
- HG2053 Language Modeling
- HG3051 Corpus Linguistics
- HG4050 Machine Translation
- HG4052 Speech Synthesis and Recognition
- HG4053 Grammar Engineering
Special Topics in Linguistics
- HG2027 Ecolinguistics: Language and the Environment
- HG2031 The History of English
- HG2033 Introduction to Conversation Analysis
- HG2093 Discovering Unwritten Stories: A General Introduction to Toponymy and Toponomastics
- HG2094 Word of Mouth: Transmission of Oral Culture
- HG2095 Codes from the Past: A General Introduction to the History of Cryptography
- HG2096 What's in a text? - Analysing Written Discourse
- HG2097 What's in a Name? - A General Introduction to Etymology
- HG2098 Gesture and Discourse
- HG2099 Languages of the World
- HG3023 Anthropological Linguistics
- HG4022 Forensic Linguistics
- HG4025 Linguistic Ethnography
- HG4032 The Linguistics of Humour
- HG4033 Advanced Conversation Analysis
- HG4044 Language Evolution
- HG4048 Comparative Chinese Dialectology
- HG4062 Language, Culture and Society in Southeast Asia
- HG4063 Advanced World Englishes
In addition, a maximum of 3 courses from the list below may count towards a 2nd Major in LMS
- HC2050 Chinese Lexicology
- HC2053 Varieties of Chinese
- HS2012 Sociology of Language
- HP2600 Cognitive Psychology
- HC3050 Sound and Prosody of Chines
- HC3052 Chinese Language and Grammatical Theories
- HC4050 Chinese Semantics
- HC4051 Text, Rhetoric and Style
- HC4052 Special Topics in Chinese Linguistics
- Any level 3000 and above language courses offered by the Centre for Modern Languages (open only to students taking these languages as a third language)*
*Maximum of one (1) Modern Language course can be cross listed.