This is normally a two-year postgraduate course which can be upgraded to a PhD by completing another year's work. The Department participates in running workshops under the auspices of the Institute of Acoustics and the SALT programme. These are run at various times during the year - students are encouraged to participate. Exchange The Department participates in the Erasmus programmes in Phonetics and Speech Communication, Languages and Computational Linguistics. We have facilities and staff for supervision at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
All instruction is in English.
All students are expected to be able to understand and express themselves in both written and spoken English. The University offers full time English language courses which may be taken before or concurrently with the phonetics and linguistics programmes. Details are obtainable from the Admissions Office of the University. We are fortunate at Essex in being able to house up to 60 per cent of our students. This is one of the best ratios of students to accommodation in the country.