剑桥大学(Cambridge) 语言学专业 BA Linguistics 开设在应用语言学系下为期三年的本科课程。除了St Catharine's这个College 没有，其他所有的College都有语言学专业。语言学是对人类语言的系统研究。从表面上看，世界语言之间存在巨大差异，语言学家不仅描述了各个语言的不同特征，还探索了所有语言共有的特性，这些特性可以洞察人类的思想。语言学的研究借鉴了广泛学科的方法和知识。例如，意义的研究借鉴哲学，语音信号的分析采用物理学和工程学的方法，语言习得的研究借鉴心理学。

Year 1 (Part I)

Part I provides a foundation across a wide range of linguistics taught within the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. You take the following four papers:

Sounds and Words – an introduction to phonetics, phonology and morphology

Structures and Meanings – looking at topics including sentence construction, semantics and pragmatics

Language, Brain and Society – considering the relationships of language to cognitive and social factors

History and Varieties of English – a linguistic analysis of contemporary variation and historical change in English

Year 2 (Part IIA)

Part II allows you to specialise in the areas which particularly interest you. There’s a wide choice of topics to choose from, taught by the Linguistics team as well as other faculties and departments.

In Part IIA, you take four papers chosen from a wide range of options dealing with different linguistic levels and perspectives, which may include the following (not all options are offered every year):

Phonetics

Phonology

Morphology

Syntax

Semantics and Pragmatics

Historical Linguistics

History of Ideas on Language

History of English/History of French

Language Acquisition

Psychology of Language Processing and Learning

Language Typology

Year 3 (Part IIB)

In Part IIB, you take:

Linguistic Theory – a general theory paper

two further papers from the remaining Part IIA options

For your fourth paper, Part IIB also includes an element of individual research as you write a dissertation of 8,000-10,000 words on a topic of your choice.

1. 高中毕业证或在读证明（中英文对照，复印或打印在学校抬头纸上，并盖有学校公章）

2. 高中成绩单（中英文对照，复印或打印在学校抬头纸上，并盖有学校公章）

3. 个人陈述（英文书写，限制字数 4000 字符；UCAS 系统会自动审核 PS 有无雷同，若发现会直接通知申请学校， 建议每个学生 PS 都不能copy，并且ps是ucas申请系统所有学校共用，不能出现学校的名字）

4. Word 版本英文推荐信一封（推荐人信息要详细，包括：姓名、 性别、职位、工作单位、联系电话、Email 地址等）

5. 护照复印件

6. 语言成绩复印件（雅思）

7. 其他补充材料：Assessment format: Two data questions and one essay question (60 minutes)

Application Deadline:

15 October

语言类专业主要培养掌握语言学方面的基本知识，受到有关理论、发展历史、研究现状等方面的系统教育和业务能力的基本训练，可在科研机关、高等院校从事研究、教学工作、有的可从事对外汉语教学，可适宜在党政机关，包括报刊宣传、新闻出版、影视文化、互联网、对外交流其他企事业部门从事语言文字工作。

申请要求：

Alevel: A*AA

IB: 40-42 points, with 776 at Higher Level

对于所选的学科没有特别要求，不过这几门会比较有帮助：English (Language or Literature), Mathematics, an arts/science mix, a language (ancient or modern)

Note: 该专业需要额外的Assessment format: Two data questions and one essay question (60 minutes)，有个别College还需要额外的Submitted work

雅思总分7.5单项不低于7.0