Chinese and Linguistics MA (Hons)

This programme offers you the opportunity to study Chinese while exploring how language is acquired, produced and understood. Edinburgh is the only university in Scotland to offer undergraduate honours programmes in Chinese, enabling you to learn modern standard Chinese in the context of Chinese history, literature and culture, past and present, and alongside Linguistics. We specialise in teaching students with little or no prior knowledge of the language. On this programme, you will learn to: * read, write and speak modern standard Chinese to an advanced level * read classical Chinese * develop translation skills You will also acquire a broad knowledge and understanding of: * how language develops * how language functions in interaction between individuals and in society * about language's abstract structure and representation in the brain * how language changes over time. You will spend Year 3 at a university in China or Taiwan.