Bachelor in Licence - Sciences du langage

A Licence in Sciences du langage is the French bachelor's degree in linguistics, the scientific study of language structure, use, and acquisition. Students typically study phonetics and phonology, syntax, semantics, and language acquisition, alongside sociolinguistics and the history of language, building an analytical understanding of how languages are structured and how they function in social contexts. Some programs also introduce computational linguistics or language technology, reflecting growing overlap between linguistics and natural language processing. Graduates of linguistics degrees commonly move toward careers in speech therapy after further specialized study, language teaching, translation, publishing, or roles in language technology and computational linguistics, and many continue into master's-level study in linguistics, speech and language therapy, or education. This Licence is offered by Université de Lorraine, at its Metz site, in Metz, France, with instruction in French. It runs for three years beginning in September, with yearly tuition of 178 EUR. Because linguistics analyzes language as a formal system, coursework in a Sciences du langage degree typically combines descriptive analysis of sounds, sentence structure, and meaning with broader modules examining how language varies across social groups and how children and adults acquire new languages. This analytical grounding is intended to prepare graduates for further specialized study in fields ranging from speech therapy to computational linguistics, depending on the direction chosen after the bachelor's degree.