The BA in Language Technology is a 24-course programme that combines courses from Computer Science, Linguistics and Information Systems. It is a future-focused degree programme that produces graduates ready to tackle the real-world challenges that combine language and technology.

Your programme coordinators are: Dr Fiona Willans (Linguistics, email: fiona.willans@usp.ac.fj) and Dr Ravneil Nand (Computer Science, email: ravneil.nand@usp.ac.fj). Please reach out to either of them for assistance.

The BA in Language Technology is a prescribed programme of 24 courses, as follows:

100-level

1. UU114 English Language Skills for Tertiary Studies
2. LN111 Introduction to Language Studies
3. LN118 The Languages of the Pacific
4. One beginner’s language course (CM101, CN101, FJ101, FR101, HN101, RT101) or Pacific language course (CM111, FJ111, HN111, NU111, TG111)
5. CS111 Introduction to Computing Science
6. CS112 Data Structures & Algorithms
7. CS140 Introduction to Software Engineering
8. ST130 Basic Statistics
9. UU100A [No credit – UU100A Communications & Information Literacy (as per Computer Science programmes)]

200-level

1. UU200 Ethics & Governance
2. UU204 Pacific Worlds
3. LN211 Structure of English
4. LN212 The Teaching of Pacific Languages or LN213 Second Language Learning & Teaching
5. CS214 Design & Analysis of Algorithms
6. IS202 Data Science
7. IS222 Database Management Systems
8. IS226 Systems, Analysis & Design or LN216 Language Use in the 21^st Century Pacific or 200-level language course

300-level

1. LN315 Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology
2. LN317 Qualitative Analysis of Texts
3. LN319 Language Documentation
4. IS302 Data Analytics
5. IS314 Computing Project
6. IS328 Data Mining
7. 1 300-level CS course to be advised by HOS or nominee
8. 1 further 300-level course from CS, IS, LN or a language