MSc in Forensic Linguistics at Aston University
The MSc in Forensic Linguistics is a flexible programme to suit academic linguists and forensic professionals. It can be studied wholly as a distance learning course from anywhere in the world or in part by attendance at short and week-long courses held at Aston University's campus in the city centre of Birmingham.
Progress through the course is through a variety of elective modules, currently offered in:
- Language and the legal system which addresses issues such as the nature and history of written legal texts.
- Language in the judicial process which addresses spoken language of arrest, interview, charge and trial.
- Linguistic investigation and evidence which addresses the contribution of linguists to investigation and their provision of a range of evidence to the courts.
- Language of offender management and treatment which addresses language use in prisons and in treatment programmes held both within institutions and within the community.
- Linguistic disadvantage in legal contexts which address issues which surround the linguistically vulnerable whether this is due to age, psychological vulnerability or simply that an individual is a second language user in the judicial system.
Additional options will be provided from time to time by the Centre for Forensic Linguistics as credit bearing short courses in areas such as Interviewing with Interpreters, Linguistic Issues in Direct and Cross Examination and Forensic Textual Analysis.
