Selecting modules

Selecting your modules

Before selecting a module:

• You need to be aware of the type of assessment and the time at which it takes place.
  • Closed examinations
    You must ensure that you are able to attend these examination sessions, otherwise your modules will not be validated.
    • Modules studied in term one will be examined in week one of term two (beginning of January)
    • Modules studied in term two and three will be examined in the exam period in term three (end of May - mid June)
• When choosing modules, read all related information to see if it appropriate for your time at York. Check with your course coordinator at your home university the relevance and appropriateness of your module choices.
• For Europe students, please note that 20 York credits are equivalent to 10 ECTS. In most cases you are required to take 20 ECTS each term. You should seek advice from your home university in terms of the requirement for your degree. It is your responsibility to ensure that you meet those requirements.

Module registration

Module registration

Final registration for modules will not take place until after the first supervisory meeting in the first week that you arrive. This means that although we will always try our best to accommodate your module choices, in some cases there might not be places available, or we may not be able to resolve timetable clashes. In these cases you will have to consider new options, so that you may not always get the modules that you want. You should bear in mind that it will be assumed that you will take the modules that you are then registered for and will then not be able to make changes unless you can prove that it is really necessary. If this is the case, you will need to supply evidence that you have clarified this with your home university.

Modules

Modules

The following list only gives you an idea of modules that might be available to you if you meet the necessary prerequisites. You can see an up to date list of modules and the full module description including information on prerequisites, assessments and exams here: http://www.york.ac.uk/language/current/undergraduates/modules/

• History of English II
  You should have taken introductory courses in linguistics, and either a course introducing you to the history of English, or a course in Old or Middle English in which you read the language, not simply literature in translation.
• Introduction to language acquisition
  Please contact the convenor to check whether your studies at your home university provide you with the relevant academic background for this module.
• Introduction to phonetics and phonology
  Please contact the convenor to check whether your studies at your home university provide you with the relevant academic background for this module.
• Prosody of English
  The teaching of this module assumes that students are already familiar with the basics of phonetics (including acoustic phonetics) and phonological analysis (including structural notions such as the syllable and foot). Students on this module need to be willing to learn how to use acoustic analysis software. If you are in any doubt about whether you have an appropriate background for this module, contact the module convenor.
• Introduction to language variation and change
  The teaching of this module assumes some knowledge of the causes and effects of linguistic variation and change and appropriate methods for undertaking research in these areas. If students have not studied sociolinguistics in their home institution, this course may not be appropriate.
• Formal semantics
  It is recommended that students interested in this module have a basic understanding of logic and set theory. Previous study in semantics or pragmatics is also useful.
• Second language syntax
  Please contact the convenor to check whether your studies at your home university provide you with the relevant academic background for this module.
• Articulatory and impressionistic phonetics
  The teaching of this module assumes that students are already familiar with the general framework of the International Phonetic Alphabet and the basics of phonetic description, including notions such as coarticulation and secondary articulation. Students on this module also need to have basic competence at phonetic transcription. If you are in any doubt about whether you have an appropriate background for this module, contact the module convenor.
• Intermediate syntax
  Visiting students may not use an 'equivalent' course as the prerequisite.  They must have taken or audited L230 in this department.
• Child bilingualism
  Students are expected to have some experience with data analysis, whether in phonology or morphosyntax.
• Introduction to syntactic theory
  In order to take this course you must have taken an elementary course in generative syntax equivalent to a 20 credit (10 credit ECTS) module, which typically involves around 25 hours of class teaching and 200 hours of study in total. If it is not clear whether the course you have done is suitable, you may be asked, upon arrival in York, to informally take the exam that students achieving the York prerequisite course had to sit in their first year. The course tutor will then determine whether your background is suitable. You would also be advised to read the textbook on which the prerequisite course was based L. Haegeman (2006) Thinking Syntactically: a guide to argumentation and analysis, Blackwell:Oxford.
• Introduction to psycholinguistics
  You will need to have had at least one year's course work in syntax and one year's in phonetics/phonology.
• Phonological development
  Students will be expected to have studied phonetics at an introductory level and to have some acquaintance with the principles of phonological analysis.
• Accents of Britain
  Please contact the convenor to check whether your studies at your home university provide you with the relevant academic background for this module.
• The evolution of a language
  Please contact the convenor to check whether your studies at your home university provide you with the relevant academic background for this module.
• Semantic theory
  The teaching of this module assumes that the students have had previous training in formal semantics, and are capable of understanding and producing formulae of predicate logic, and know how to use lambda operators. Familiarity with funamental topics in natural language semantics, in particular generalized quantifier theory, is also assumed.
• Competence/ performance and the theory of syntax
  You will need to have taken at least two courses in syntactic theory.
• Structure of a language: Japanese
  Please contact the convenor  to check whether your studies at your home university provide you with the relevant academic background for this module.