Bachelor in Licence - Sciences du langage

At Université de Caen Normandie, tuition comes to 206 USD per year.

Licence - Sciences du langage is a bachelor's degree program in linguistics offered by Université de Caen Normandie in Caen, France. Sciences du langage studies language as a system: how sounds combine into words, how words combine into sentences, how meaning is built and interpreted, and how language is used in social context. Programs in this discipline typically cover phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, giving students the analytical tools to describe how any language is structured, along with coursework on language acquisition and how children develop language skills over time. Students in this field often study several languages comparatively to understand shared linguistic principles and points of variation, rather than aiming for fluency in one particular language, and coursework frequently includes sociolinguistics, which looks at how language relates to social identity and community, and psycholinguistics, which looks at how the mind processes and produces language, with some programs introducing computational approaches to language. Practical skills built throughout the degree typically include phonetic transcription, formal grammatical analysis, and structured academic writing, since much of linguistics involves systematically describing and explaining patterns in language data. Career paths connected to this background include training toward speech and language therapy, teaching French as a foreign language, translation, editorial and publishing work, or further study at the master's level in linguistics, cognitive science, or language technology. At Université de Caen Normandie, the program runs over three years and is taught in French, consistent with standard practice at French public universities. The intake is expected to begin in September. Yearly tuition is 178 EUR, in line with the nationally regulated, modest fee level applied to undergraduate programs at French public institutions. Students considering this program in Caen should be comfortable with detailed grammatical and phonetic analysis across the three years.