Bachelor in Licence - Sciences du langage

Université Paris 8, based in Saint-Denis, France, offers a Licence - Sciences du langage, a bachelor's program in linguistics, the scientific study of language. This discipline examines how language is structured and used, covering areas such as phonetics and phonology, the sounds of language, morphology and syntax, the structure of words and sentences, and semantics, the study of meaning. Students also typically explore sociolinguistics, which looks at how language varies across social groups and contexts, and psycholinguistics, which examines how language is processed and acquired by the human mind. A linguistics education develops close attention to the structure of language, comparative analysis across different languages, and methods for describing and analyzing spoken and written data. Graduates can pursue further study toward careers in language teaching, whether of French or of foreign languages, speech and language therapy after additional specialized training, translation and interpreting, publishing and editorial work, or computational linguistics and natural language processing, an area connecting linguistics with computer science. This bachelor's program spans three years and is taught in French. Classes start in September, and the annual tuition fee is 178 EUR, consistent with public university rates in France. Studying in Saint-Denis places students near Paris, a setting that offers access to a wide linguistic and cultural environment, along with the academic resources of one of France's major university centers for language studies.