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General Linguistics

Bachelor's degree in full-time form. The language of instruction is Czech.

The programme can be studied as a single subject or in combination with another programme.

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Submission deadline until midnight 28 February 2025.

What will you learn?

The study of general linguistics opens for students the way for understanding language as a general and fundamental human tool, and naturally also for easier understanding particular languages, both in the sense of the description of inner structures and the function of language in the social context or its development. It is connected with the acquisition and cultivation of necessary analytical skills in the form of the given methodologies.

Through the language to the mind, through the mind to the language.

The students are acquainted with three methodologies: structural-functional, generative and formal linguistics. Their principles are explicated, the advantages of their use exemplified. At the same time the students are introduced into the fundamental principles of experimental research and its subsequent statistical evaluation (in this way linguistics follows the general direction of bringing humanities nearer to natural sciences). Attention is paid to all linguistic planes: phonetics and phonology, morphonology and morphology, syntax, semantics; special attention is also given to algebraic linguistics and statistics. In addition, the students gain knowledge about etymology and the history of linguistic methodology, and they also learn one or more languages depending on the type of their study.

The program is well suited for those interested in language in general: for those who have already inquired into linguistics or a concrete philology (special possibilities opens up particularly in combination with a concrete philology), as well as for those who are interested in studying language a tool for understanding the world (including those interested in mathematics and cybernetics).

Practical training

There is no required practical training.

Further information

http://www.phil.muni.cz/jazyk

Career opportunities

The graduates are prepared, provided they do not continue in another study, to capitalize on the acquired knowledge in practical work with language or languages (be it teaching, interpreting, translating, editorial proofreading work, journalism or others) and particularly in the fields needing good expression skills in the mother language or a foreign language and analytical thinking, and in general in any field requiring not only the use of language, but also the understanding of its structure.

Admission requirements

This programme is taught in Czech.

The criteria for admission for studies are the results of the Learning Potential Test (TSP). The Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University disregards the results of SCIO National Comparative Examinations.

You can file your e-applications for studies from 1 November to 28 February.
The date and time of the examination will be stated in the electronic invitation for the examination, which will be uploaded to your e-application. The faculty will not be sending paper invitations. Applicants applying for the major study plan and minor study plan in a combined study must comply with the conditions for admission into both plans.

Learning Potential Test (TSP)

This test is only in Czech. For up-to-date information, click here

Field of Study Examination

For admission for studies of this degree programme, you do not need to take the Field of Study Examination.

Admission without the entrance examination

For admission for studies in this degree programme, you cannot be exempted from taking the entrance examination.

Criteria for evaluation

Limit for TSP percentile for successfully passing the entrance examination: 30

Minimum score and numbers of accepted applicants in past years

Deadlines

1 Nov 2024 – 28 Feb 2025

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Study options

Single-subject studies

Students have a pre-defined list of required courses, which are supplemented with selective and elective courses. The student pays full attention to the single field of study chosen.

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Combined studies

In this type of studies, the students focus on the main degree programme (120 credits) supplemented with another, minor, programme (60 credits). The student enrols in the degree programme in which he/she majors. Both the programmes are stated in the university diploma. You will find possible combinations on the websites of individual degree programmes.​ An exception is programmes preparing students for teaching professions, where both fields of study are equal and the thesis may be written in any of them.

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Arts

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Economics and Administration

  • General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
    + Economic Policy (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration
  • General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
    + Economics (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration
  • General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
    + Public Economics and Administration (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Informatics

  • General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
    + Informatics (minor) – Faculty of Informatics

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Social Studies

General Linguistics as a minor degree programme

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Arts
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Economics and Administration
  • Economic Policy (major) – Faculty of Economics and Administration, full-time studies
    + General Linguistics (minor)
  • Economics (major) – Faculty of Economics and Administration, full-time studies
    + General Linguistics (minor)
  • Public Economics and Administration (major) – Faculty of Economics and Administration, full-time studies
    + General Linguistics (minor)
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Informatics
  • Informatics (major) – Faculty of Informatics, full-time studies
    + General Linguistics (minor)
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Social Studies

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Courses – curriculum examples

An example of your study plan:

Single-subject studies

Combined studies

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Arts

General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Chinese Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Computational Linguistics (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Czech Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Dutch Language, Literature and Culture (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Bold – required courses
Normal – selective courses

Detailed information about courses in the study plan General Linguistics
Detailed information about courses in the study plan Dutch Language, Literature and Culture
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + English Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + French Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + German language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Information studies and librarianship (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Aesthetics (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Ancient History (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Archaeology (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Archival Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Art History (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Baltic Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Catalan language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Classical archaeology (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Combined Art Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Ethnology (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Classical Greek language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Latin language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + History (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Italian Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Japanese Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Modern Greek Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Museology (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Musicology (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Pedagogy (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Philosophy (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Polish Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Portuguese Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Russian Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Social Education and Counselling (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + South Slavonic and Balkan Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Spanish Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Study of Religions (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Theatre Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Theory and History of Film and Audiovisual Culture (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Theory of interactive media (minor) – Faculty of Arts
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Ukrainian Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Economics and Administration

General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Economic Policy (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Economics (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Public Economics and Administration (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Informatics

General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Informatics (minor) – Faculty of Informatics

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Social Studies

General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Contemporary History (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Environmental Studies (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + European Studies (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Human resource development and employment (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + International Relations (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Media Studies and Journalism (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Political Science (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Public and Social Policy and Human Resources (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Security and Strategic Studies (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Social Anthropology (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Social Work (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
General Linguistics (major), full-time studies
 + Sociology (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies

Follow-up studies

The graduate of the bachelor’s general linguistics study program can enroll in the follow-up master’s degree study.

Study information

Provided by Faculty of Arts
Type of studies Bachelor's
Mode full-time Yes
combined No
distance No
Study options single-subject studies Yes
single-subject studies with specialization No
major/minor studies Yes
Standard length of studies 3 years
Language of instruction Czech

Do you have any questions?
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PhDr. Aleš Bičan, Ph.D.

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