German Language and Linguistics

Overview

Benefits

• Obtaining scholarships for further studies in Germany (from DAAD) or other European countries (from ERASMUS). DAAD also provides scholarships for Malaysians to attend summer courses in Germany,

• Exchange programme at the HTWG Konstanz (Germany) for the Bachelor in Business German and Tourism Management and other elective languages exchange programmes (Korean, Thai, etc).

Career Opportunity

Graduates of the German Language and Linguistics program of the University of Malaya will find jobs:

• In the media, advertising and publishing industry (e.g. junior script-writers, editors, copywriters, proof-readers; writers, etc );

• In corporate communication;

• In the education industry (e.g. language teachers/instructors, teachers assistants, education administrators at government and private schools and institutions, research assistants, etc);

• As translators and interpreters (e.g. to translate subtitles, advertisements, texts, etc);

• As language or linguistic consultants (e.g. linguistic and language- related fieldwork, research assistants, analysing linguistic aspects of spoken and written texts at the basic level);

• As tour guides

• In civil service