Linguistics (Artificial Intelligence) The Open University UK

Overview

In the Linguistics (Artificial Intelligence) course from The Open University UK, you’ll also try various methods of language analysis. You’ll then have the choice of two specialist routes. 

In the Applied Linguistics route, you'll explore how you can apply your specialist knowledge of linguistics in different professional fields and social contexts, such as politics, healthcare or education. 

With the Artificial Intelligence route, you'll examine the relationship between language use and changing global technologies and explore everyday communication challenges for AI, virtual assistants and conversational AI. You’ll learn to critically evaluate and design natural language processing applications and consider issues of culture and politics in the development of artificial intelligence. You’ll complete your masters with a small-scale study of a topic relevant to your professional practices or interests.

Career relevance

Throughout the world there is an increasing demand for professionals with a grasp of how language works. You’ll sharpen your IT, writing, and independent thinking skills and develop your ability to respond to feedback as well as demonstrating your time management. These are key skills in complex organisations, greatly sought after in the world beyond study – whether you’re already working, volunteering, or changing career.

This qualification is designed to enrich your knowledge and improve your professional practice. On completing your studies, you should be able to:

• demonstrate self-direction and originality in tackling and solving problems at a professional or equivalent level

• reflect critically and constructively, in the light of ideas and frameworks presented in the modules, on how these apply to your practice and organisational context.

You will also acquire qualities and transferable skills that are highly prized by employers within education and related fields, such as:

• exercising initiative and personal responsibility

• the ability to make decisions in complex and unpredictable situations

• the ability to draw on appropriate research and ethical understanding

• the capacity to produce reports/outputs for academic and professional purposes.

You will be guided through the materials and learn how you can recognise and acknowledge these additional skills.