If you are tremendously interested in both psychology and languages, and if you can not get into the study of psychology, for one reason or another. (It could be crowded because it is so popular), so you can choose to take a degree in language psychology, where you specialize in a more specific area, namely how we communicate with language.

Psycholinguistics is an education with a focus on human communication on many levels. Human communication procedure can be carried on through direct speech, bodily behavior, listening to others speak and understand what the intention is.

You learn to interpret these forms of communication and use it to convey messages or teach other people in communication. Psycholinguistics is also about the written word and how the written communication takes place and perceived by the involved partere - the sender and receiver. The instruction includes the tool subjects such as sociology, anthropology, psychology and a little philosophy.

You will concretely work with scientific analysis of language, the spoken and written and how it is expressed in our human forms of communication. Therefore, teaching active interaction between teacher and students.

Psycholinguistics in use is a sharp tool to be used with common sense. Because you can analyze your way to many interesting conclusions, which you might would rather be without this knowledge.

The program takes two years and after you have written and received approval of your thesis, you can write cand. MA in Psychology of Language on your business card.

Job Opportunities

Psychologist, text analyst, writer