Bachelor in Licence - Sciences du langage

Licence - Sciences du langage is a bachelor's degree program in linguistics offered by Nantes Université in Nantes, France. Sciences du langage is the scientific study of language: how it is structured, how it is acquired, and how it functions in communication and society. Coursework typically covers phonetics and phonology, the study of speech sounds; morphology and syntax, the study of word formation and sentence structure; semantics, the study of meaning; and pragmatics, the study of language use in context, along with how children acquire language and how languages change over time and vary across social groups and regions. Programs in this field often include multiple languages as objects of comparative study, rather than focusing on fluency in any single one, since linguistics analyzes the underlying structure languages share and the ways they differ, and coursework may also touch on psycholinguistics, which examines how the brain processes language, sociolinguistics, which examines the relationship between language and social identity, and in some programs an introduction to computational linguistics or natural-language processing. Students typically build skills in transcription, formal linguistic analysis, and academic writing, learning to describe and analyze language data systematically. Graduates from this background move into fields such as speech and language therapy training, teaching French as a foreign language, translation, publishing, or further study toward research careers in linguistics, cognitive science, or language technology. At Nantes Université, the program runs over three years and is taught in French, consistent with standard practice at French public universities. The intake is expected to begin in September. Yearly tuition is 178 EUR, in line with the nationally regulated, modest fee level applied to undergraduate programs at French public institutions.