Graduate Diploma of Crosscultural and Applied Linguistics

Program Overview

This one-year linguistics program emphasizes diversity in communication, equipping students with core concepts of language and culture. With 24 credit points of core units and 24 credit points of electives, graduates develop skills for careers in diverse fields such as business, education, community relations, medicine, and law.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This course has a special emphasis on diversity in the language of professional and social engagement. Learn core concepts of language and culture, and gain skills in applying them in areas ranging from business to education, community relations, media, medicine, and law. This program offers exciting opportunities to deepen your knowledge of linguistics and cross-cultural communication, and develop new skills as you put this knowledge into practice.

Outline:

• Duration: 1 year full-time (Available part-time)

• Location: Camperdown/Darlington University of Sydney
• Study mode: Face to face
• Credit points: 48
• Core units (24 credit points):
• Structure and Function of Language
• Language, Society and Power
• Discourse and Communication
• Cross Cultural Communication
• Electives (24 credit points): 4 electives to be chosen from a list not provided in the context.

Careers:

Graduates will be equipped to address a range of real-world issues in language and communication, and work in areas as diverse as:

• public relations in business
• literacy in multilingual education
• community engagement
• teaching English to speakers of other languages
• legal language
• news discourse
• doctor/patient communication in health settings.