MA Forensic Linguistics
Course Overview
Elevate your linguistics expertise and contribute to the justice system with the Forensic Linguistics MA at Aston University. This one-year master's program, based at the world-leading Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, teaches you to apply advanced linguistic analysis to real legal and forensic contexts. You will learn to critically engage with the language of law and provide crucial linguistic evidence.
Key Program Highlights
- Learn from world-leading academics at the prestigious Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics.
- Gain hands-on experience with unique access to real-world data through our strong police links.
- Master the application of linguistic analysis to police interviews, courtroom interactions, and investigations.
- Complete a substantial 15,000-word research dissertation on a topic of your choice.
- Open doors to careers in intelligence, security services, or PhD-level research.
Course Overview
Elevate your linguistics expertise and contribute to the justice system with the Forensic Linguistics MA at Aston University. This one-year master's program, based at the world-leading Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, teaches you to apply advanced linguistic analysis to real legal and forensic contexts. You will learn to critically engage with the language of law and provide crucial linguistic evidence.
Key Program Highlights
- Learn from world-leading academics at the prestigious Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics.
- Gain hands-on experience with unique access to real-world data through our strong police links.
- Master the application of linguistic analysis to police interviews, courtroom interactions, and investigations.
- Complete a substantial 15,000-word research dissertation on a topic of your choice.
- Open doors to careers in intelligence, security services, or PhD-level research.
Express Offer
An Express Offer will provide you with a priority pass to Aston University. By meeting requirements, you'll get an Offer in Principle (OIP) in just 24 hours and a final offer letter in a few days.
This exclusive deal is available only for select courses.
Here are some more benefits from the Express Offer:
- Backlogs accepted
- Gap years accepted
- English test waivers available
- All boards accepted for IELTS waiver
- Visa refusal accepted (Student should upload the visa refusal paper along with the application)
- NIOS and distance education accepted
Requirements
Modules
- Forensic Linguistics: Theory & Practice
- Research Methods
- Analysing Discourse
- Variation and Change
- Deviant Online Communities
- Spoken Encounters with Policing
- Practical Applications in Forensic Linguistics
- Concepts of Forensic Inference and Statistics
- Corpus Linguistics
- Harmful Online Interactions
- Courtroom Interaction and Cultures
- Authorship Analysis and Expert Witnessing
- Dissertation
