语言学和犯罪学（荣誉）文学士学位

语言对于包括犯罪和刑事司法系统在内的社会各方面的行为至关重要。本课程使您能够同时学习两者。它使您能够使用现代语言学的某些技术和框架来研究语言，并帮助您了解英语在多种情况下和不同情况下的功能。您还将对主要的犯罪学概念，理论和观点有透彻的了解。您将学习语言对于理解刑事司法系统和犯罪活动的重要性。因此，例如，法证语音学和法证语言学的模块将这两个领域结合在一起，以了解如何分析语言证据（例如互动记录）可用于解决犯罪。该课程旨在通过教育您理解，分析和批评与您的刑事司法系统特别相关的交流，为您提供现实世界的装备。在第二
Language is central to the way all aspects of society are conducted, including crime and the criminal justice system. This course enables you to investigate language using some of the techniques and frameworks of modern linguistics and develop a thorough understanding of the major criminological concepts, theories and perspectives. State-of-the-art facilities including a forensic linguistics lab, a research and resource centre and conference labs, Opportunity to take a five-week placement as part of the ‘Language in the Workplace' module, Get involved in the writing, editing and production of the popular department linguistics magazine, Babel, Our team of English academic staff are ranked in the top 5 in the UK for the quality of their research publications (REF 2014), You'll have the chance to hear from guest speakers such as police officers, drug outreach workers or criminal justice staff and You'll take part in debates about the latest issues, such as why people commit crime as well as the opportunity to investigate some fascinating topics such as sexual offending, cyber and environmental crime. The course aims to equip you for the real world by educating you to understand, analyse and critique the communication going on around you with particular relevance to the criminal justice system. The kinds of careers that relate most closely to this course lie in the police and criminal justice system as well as in forensic linguistics and speech analysis.<br><br>Duration - 3 years full-time and 4 years including placement year