University of Pretoria - Faculty of Humanities

MA (Linguistics)

About: The MA (Linguistics) final-year profile centres on core modules and a dissertation (Linguistics 890). You can pair linguistic study with professional degrees in psychology, social work, communication, or audiology via the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, which houses Africa’s only Specialist Neuro-Otologic Test Centre. The programme builds skills in phonetics, phonology, syntax, sociolinguistics, language assessment, research methods and thesis writing, and supports applied fields such as speech-language pathology, audiology and neuro-otology.

Career Outcomes: Potential careers include academic researcher, university lecturer, language therapist, speech-language pathologist, audiologist, clinical linguist, language assessor, forensic linguist, policy adviser, curriculum developer, and PhD study.