Students conduct their own work in this research environment. Students have access to three foreign language teaching laboratories, two self-access laboratories, PC laboratories connected to the University network and the Internet and various common rooms including a Modern Languages and European Studies Common Room. The University's central library facility has numerous books and periodicals of interest to students and researchers in the Department. The University Computing Service provides five fully networked PC laboratories and 72 UNIX workstations - most of these are on open access to students. Tutorials are held in Term 3.
Examinations occur in the middle of the third term.
For one year's study, a student normally registers for four fully courses or the equivalent made up of a mixture of full and half courses. A normal programme of courses requires three years to reach degree level. In each of the previously named programmes the linguistics modules can be predominantly phonetics - thus creating undergraduate programmes which are oriented towards phonetics and speech. Undergraduate courses run for two terms, though some may be joined at the beginning of the second term. There are additional courses offered in the Department, and the general course list should be consulted for these.