At the beginning of your studies, you will create a personal study plan with your teachers who will help you find which courses suit you best and what obligatory courses you need to take. The personal study plan will be created in a tool called Sisu. When it comes to elective courses, it all depends on what you are interested in, and you are quite free to take anything that you like. If you are, for example, a general linguistics major, you could complement your studies with language technology, or a phonetics student might be interested in cognitive science, or vice versa. You can also take courses from other programmes and faculties as long as you fulfill their prerequisites.
The course named Approaches to Linguistic Diversity and Digital Humanities is worth 10 credits and it is compulsory for all LingDig master’s students. It is usually available every year in the autumn term, I and II period.
In addition, you should attend courses worth 20 credits from any study track part of the LingDig programme. These 20 credits courses will be agreed with your teacher tutor at the beginning of your studies.
The study tracks that are part of the integrated international master’s programme in Linguistic Diversity and Digital Humanities (LingDig) are: general linguistics, cognitive science, digital humanities, language technology and phonetics.
When you apply, you choose one track as your major and you will complete most of your studies in that track. All the tracks follow this structure: 90 credits of advanced studies + 30 credits of elective studies (= 120 credits). The 90 credits you will study within the LingDig programme and the 30 credits you can choose freely from any faculty or university.
Yes. The LingDig programme contains roughly four 30 credit sets:
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Our students come from all over the world, and we can’t know much in advance which nationalities we will have each year. Approximately one-third of the students in the programme are international and the remaining are Finnish.
Overall, the University of Helsinki has a total of 31,600 degree students of which 3,215 are international degree and exchange students. In 2021, alongside Finland, the highest number of admitted students to the university came from China, the USA and Bangladesh.
LingDig is an international programme and therefore the teaching language is English. Finland is a bilingual country: our official languages are Finnish and Swedish. Living in Finland is a great opportunity to learn a non-Indo-European language and learning the local language will boost your understanding of what is going on around you in Finnish society and culture! Finns have good proficiency in English, so you can take care of your everyday tasks in English as well. Finnish people love it though, if someone tries to speak Finnish, so Finnish courses can be useful in that sense as well.
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