The Master¿s programme in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) provides students with a general foundation and an attractive range of courses dealing with application and of elective courses expanding on descriptive and theoretical topics. SFL is presented as a resource for engaging with language and other semiotic systems in their contexts of culture; this engagement covers both expert scientific knowledge about language and semiotic systems in general and expert skills needed in the analysis of texts (discourses) and the development of descriptions of linguistic systems based on texts, both small samples and large corpora. In short, students will be empowered both to reflect and to act.