Bachelor in Licence - Sciences du langage - Parcours Licence 1 Sciences du langage

Tuition fees are 204 USD per year.

Sciences du langage — language sciences — is the academic discipline devoted to the systematic study of human language in all its dimensions. Students examine how sounds are produced and organised (phonetics and phonology), how words and sentences are constructed (morphology and syntax), how meaning is conveyed (semantics), and how language functions in social interaction (pragmatics). The field also encompasses the history and evolution of languages, the processes of language acquisition in children and adult learners, and the ways languages vary across regions and communities. At Université Bordeaux Montaigne, located in Pessac, France, the programme leads to a bachelor's degree (Licence) awarded after three years of study. Instruction is conducted entirely in French, and yearly tuition is 178 EUR. The curriculum typically draws on methods from cognitive science, sociology, and computational linguistics, giving students both theoretical grounding and practical research skills such as transcription, corpus analysis, and fieldwork. Students learn to work with linguistic data systematically and to apply their analysis to real-world language questions. Career directions include speech therapy (with further specialised training), language teaching, translation, lexicography, language technology, publishing, and communication services. Graduate study at master's level opens paths in research, computational linguistics, natural language processing, or clinical fields related to language disorders. The programme welcomes students from a wide range of secondary-school backgrounds and is designed to build strong analytical and writing capacities over the course of three years, starting in September.