Graduate Certificate of General and Applied Linguistics
Canberra, Australia
Graduate Certificate
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Jan 2027
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Graduate Certificate of General and Applied Linguistics at The Australian National University in Canberra covers structural linguistics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, contact, teaching, language and culture, social interaction, forensic linguistics and language documentation. It's suited to people seeking professional development or preparing for further study. You can study an additional language and tailor study toward teaching or research pathways into the Master of General and Applied Linguistics.
Career Outcomes: Graduates could work as language teachers, curriculum developers, translators/interpreters, forensic linguists, language documenters, lexicographers, corpus linguists, or NLP/computational linguists. These roles suit those in language analysis, education, policy and technology.
As language assumes ever greater importance in an interconnected, multilingual world, the study of linguistics and applied linguistics is relevant to a growing number of careers from language teaching to natural language processing. In the Graduate Certificate of General and Applied Linguistics, you will have the opportunity to explore selected topics across general and applied linguistics areas such as structural linguistics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, language contact, language teaching, language and culture, social interaction, forensic linguistics and language documentation.
The program is well-suited to people wishing to expand their knowledge about language for professional development, as well as to those who are considering further study. The Graduate Certificate also offers the option of studying a language for people wishing to develop their proficiency in an additional language or even to start learning a new language. Language teachers can customise the program so that it encompasses both practical and theoretical dimensions of their professional development. This Graduate Certificate can be completed as a stand alone award, or as a pathway into the Master of General and Applied Linguistics.
