Bachelor in Licence - Sciences du langage

The Licence - Sciences du langage (Language Sciences) at Université de Limoges in Limoges, France, is a three-year bachelor program devoted to the scientific study of language as a structured system, a social practice, and a cognitive phenomenon. The discipline encompasses phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, historical and comparative linguistics, and discourse analysis. Students learn to describe and analyse linguistic structures in French and other languages, examine how language varies across social groups, regions, and situations, and understand how language is acquired by children and processed by the human mind. The program also addresses applied dimensions of linguistics relevant to language teaching methodology, translation theory, lexicography, and communication. Teaching is conducted in French. The program begins in September, runs for 3 years, and costs 178 EUR per year. Graduates pursue careers in language teaching in France and abroad, lexicography and terminology, publishing and editorial work, speech and language therapy preparation, communication consulting, and documentary work. The analytical training the degree provides is also valued in fields such as natural language processing and computational linguistics for those who continue to master's or doctoral programs. Many graduates advance to master's programs in linguistics, French as a foreign language teaching, language documentation, or applied language sciences.