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A. Major Requirements (69 AUs)

The Major Requirements for Linguistics and Multilingual Studies Major consists of 3 components:

• Linguistics and Multilingual Studies Core Courses (21 AUs)
• Linguistics and Multilingual Studies Prescribed Electives (40 AUs)
• Graduation Project (FYP) (8 AUs) - Check your eligibility here.

Requirements of the Linguistics and Multilingual Studies Major:

A1. Linguistics and Multilingual Studies Core (Compulsory) Courses

The 7 core courses (21 AUs) equip students with a firm foundation in Linguistics. Each course (unless otherwise stated) is equivalent to 3 AUs.

• HG1001 Mind and Meaning
• HG2001 Morphology and Syntax
• HG2002 Semantics and Pragmatics
• HG2003 Phonetics and Phonology
• HG2010 Bilingualism and Multilingualism
• HG2020 Language in Society
• HG2034 Structure of Modern English
• HG4099 Graduation Project/Essay (8 AUs)

Students are strongly advised to complete all the LMS core courses by the end of their second year.

A2. Linguistics and Multilingual Studies Electives

Students must choose 12 electives (with a minimum of 40 AUs) from the wide range of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies Prescribed Electives. At least 4 of the 12 electives must be from level-4000 courses, and at least three electives must be from level-3000 courses. These courses are offered in five concentrations. These are:

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
• HG3015 Psycholinguistics
• HG3016 Language and Cognition in Bilingualism and Multilingualism
• HG3017 Advanced Study of Language and Literacy in Infancy
• HG4011 Language and the Brain(4 AUs)
• HG4013 Multilingualism Across the Lifespan (4 AUs)
• HG4047 Pragmatic Theory (4 AUs)

Multilingual Societies and Multiculturalism

• HG2021 Intercultural Communication
• HG2023 Language and Gender
• HG2024 X-rated Linguistics: Language, Sexuality and Desire
• HG2032 Globalisation and World Englishes
• HG3020 Language Planning and Policy
• HG3021 Language Change
• HG3022 Sociolinguistics of a Region
• HG3024 A Wor(l)d in Motion
• HG3025 Language Variation​
• HG4020 Languages in Contact (4 AUs)
• HG4021 Language Shift and Maintenance (4 AUs)
• HG4031 Multimodality in Situated Contexts (4 AUs)

Language Structure

• HG2017 Father-and-Mother tongues: Languages of SE Asia
• HG3042 Contrastive Linguistics
• HG3043 Malay Linguistics 1 - History and Structure​
• HG3046 Language Universals and Language Types
• HG3047 Experimenting with Spoken Language
• HG4012 Structure of Sign Language (4 AUs)
• HG4040 Phonological Theory (4 AUs)
• HG4041 Theories of Grammar (4 AUs)
• HG4042 How and Why Languages Differ (4 AUs)
• HG4045 Field Methods: Structure and Language (4 AUs)
• HG4046 Malay Linguistics 2 - Dialectology and Language Contact (4 AUs)
• HG4049 Semantic Analysis (4 AUs)
• HG4070 Experimental Phonetics (4 AUs)
• HG4071 The Meat of Speech: The Anatomy and Physiology of Speaking and Hearing (4 AUs)


Language and Technology

• HG2051 Language and the Computer
• HG2052 Language, Technology and the Internet
• HG2053 Language Modeling
• HG3051 Corpus Linguistics
• HG3052 Speech Synthesis and Recognition
• HG4050 Machine Translation (4 AUs)
• HG4053 Grammar Engineering (4 AUs)


Special Topics

• 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
• HG3040 Language Evolution
• HG3043 Malay Linguistics 1 - History and Structure
• HG4022 Forensic Linguistics (4 AUs)
• HG4030 Conversation Analysis (4 AUs)
• HG4032 The Linguistics of Humour (4 AUs)
• HG4033 Advanced Conversation Analysis (4 AUs)
• HG4048 Comparative Chinese Dialectology (4 AUs)
• HG4062 Language, Culture and Society in Southeast Asia (4 AUs)
• HG4063 Advanced World Englishes (4 AUs)
• HG4060 Special Topics in Linguistics (4 AUs)


Note:

1. The Programme recommends students to take an average of 3 LMS courses every semester.

2. We strongly encourage students to complete their Core Courses (2000-level courses) first before attempting the prescribed electives (3000- and 4000-level courses).

Students are strongly encouraged to read the Core Courses as soon as they are offered. Please do not delay the reading of Core Courses because these Core Courses may be the pre-requisite for some courses offered in future semesters. A failure to clear the Core Courses as early as possible will impose restrictions in the choice of courses in future semesters.

B. General Education Requirement (GER) (59 AUs)

B1. GER - Core (17 AUs)

​Communication Skills ​	​HW0105 Academic Communication in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (to be taken in Year 1 Sem 1)	​2 AUs
	​HW0207 Academic Communication in Linguistics (to be taken in Year 1 Sem 2)	​2 AUs
​Singapore Studies	​Please check semester's offerings under this sub-category.	​3 AUs
​Digital Literacy ​	​HD0101 Digital Society (to be taken in Year 2 Sem 2)	​3 AUs
	​HD0102 Making Sense of Big Data (to be taken in Year 2 Sem 1)	3 AUs​
​Others (online courses that will be offered in Semester 2 of every academic year) ​ ​	HY0001 ​Ethics and Moral Reasoning	​1 AU
	GC0001 ​Environmental Sustainability	​1 AU
	ET0001 Entrepreneurship and Innovation	​1 AU
​Margaret Lien Centre for Professional Success (MLCPS) ​	​ML0003 Career Development Module (to be taken in Year 3)	​1 AU

  


B2. GER - Prescribed Electives (PEs) (12 AUs)
Students to choose 4 courses from 3 categories of studies with at least 1 course from BM and LA.

• Business and Management (BM) (3 AUs)
  
• Liberal Arts (LA) (3 AUs)
• Two modules from ANY of the categories LA, BM or STS (6 AUs) 

 
B3. GER - Unrestricted Electives (UEs) (30 AUs)

There are no restrictions on the selection of courses to make up unrestricted electives. Students can choose any of the following:

• Complete a Minor in another discipline.
• Earn AUs under an International Exchange programme.
• Earn AUs under the optional Professional Attachment programme offered under SoH.
• Any course offered by any School as long as the pre-requisites are satisfied.