Main professional opportunities

Among the possible professional opportunities for this PhD programme are the following:

  • Teaching, language and culture teaching in the field of secondary and university education, both in public and private centres. Official language schools, university language institutes, academies, summer courses, etc. Teaching in cultural institutions and companies.
  • Publishing industry: Editorial reader, text editing and proofreading, multilingual technical action, multilingual documentation consultancy, linguistic and literary consultancy, literary agencies, etc. Literary publishing in new media: cultural websites, computer applications in the cultural world. Bookshop management and qualified bookshop management.
  • Translation: Translation offices and commercial correspondents. Legal, technical, audiovisual, localisation and, to a lesser extent, literary translation.
  • Interpreting: interpreters for conferences and congresses, at exhibitions, international organisations and tourist agencies, agencies dedicated to the search for and recruitment of these professionals.
  • Tourism, Tourism Management. Tourist information. Tourism Development. Travel Agencies.
  • Linguistic and Intercultural Mediation. Linguistic and intercultural mediation in the field of emigration and immigration. Linguistic mediation in the field of communicative interactions.
  • Collaboration with public administrations in the areas of Justice, Social Services...
  • Human Resources Management.
  • Foreign trade.
  • International, institutional and business relations.
  • Cooperation and Development NGOs. International organisations.
  • Public Administrations, particularly in the field of the administration of the European Union institutions and the Diplomatic Corps.
  • Free Practice of the Profession