In the Master's Programme in Linguistic Diversity and Digital Humanities (LingDig), you get an understanding of the nature and diversity of human language and the theoretical and digital tools for working with language and speech. You may also focus on digital methods in other fields within humanities or on human cognition and artificial intelligence. The programme offers five fields of specialisation: Cognitive Science, Digital Humanities, General Linguistics, Language Technology and Phonetics.

These five study tracks interact at all levels, starting with an introductory course common to all students, bringing together the perspectives of all five study tracks. Taking courses across study tracks is made easy. The integration of these five disciplines into one programme is unique - no similar programme exists anywhere else.

The Master's Programme in Linguistic Diversity and Digital Humanities is for you if you want to:

1. deepen your understanding of language in general.
2. become an expert in linguistic diversity at a local or global scale.
3. learn how humans perceive the world and process information.
4. learn how to create artificial systems that resemble language, speech and human cognition.
5. know how to use digital methods to study aspects of human life such as history and social development.

During your studies, you will:

1. gain an in-depth understanding of the basic structure of language, its subsystems (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics) and their interrelationships.
2. learn the fundamentals of linguistic analysis and language description.
3. familiarise yourself with linguistic concepts, theories, descriptive models and the associated research methods.
4. learn how language is related to cognition, speech and interaction as well as to social structures, culture and society.
5. learn to use various methods and technical tools in order to manage and analyse language data.
6. gain a good understanding of linguistic variation and diversity: what is common to the world's languages and how they differ, how language changes over time, how languages influence each another, how individuals cope with multilingual situations and how communities speaking endangered languages can be supported.

After completing your studies, you will be able to work independently in various fields that require multidisciplinary expertise in linguistic sciences. You will have the theoretical knowledge and skills that are required for postgraduate studies in doctoral programmes in language studies.

Further information about the studies on the Master's programme website.