Digital Media & Information Studies/English Language & Linguistics

Course description

**DIGITAL MEDIA & INFORMATION STUDIES**: Digital media and information studies explores the creation, use and impact of digital content and information in the arts, humanities and society at large. It brings a human perspective to the issues of the digital age. This programme is accredited by CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals.

**ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS**: English language and linguistics combines the study of the structure and meaning of the English language, past and present, to see what all this tells us about our culture, our society and ourselves. Over 50 years, we created the world-leading Historical Thesaurus of English, a unique resource charting the semantic development of the huge and varied vocabulary of English. You will also have access to dedicated laboratories for analysing spoken and written language.

Subjects

• Media studies
• English language
• Informatics
• Languages
• Language
• Linguistics
• Applied linguistics
• Philology
• Computational linguistics
• English linguistics
• Language development
• Phonetics
• Lexicography
• Psycholinguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Welsh linguistics
• Historical linguistics
• Gaelic linguistics
• Broadcasting
• Communication skills
• Communication studies
• Business communication
• Communication design
• Communication policy studies
• Mass communication
• Technical communication
• Visual communication
• Science communication
• Media management
• Media production
• Scottish studies