Universidade de Aveiro Graduate Specialisation Program in Languages and Cultures for Business
Universidade de Aveiro

Universidade de Aveiro

Graduate Specialisation Program in Languages and Cultures for Business

Aveiro, Portugal

Graduate Diploma

1 year

English, Portuguese

On-Campus

Key Summary

About: The Graduate Specialisation Programme in Languages and Cultures for Business trains professionals in business-oriented languages and intercultural approaches. It adapts to trainees' needs and develops linguistic, communicative and intercultural skills for market demands. It seeks to boost requalification and employability, support company internationalization, expand prior knowledge and reinforce competence in corporate roles, and foster autonomy and self-regulation for sustained learning. Keywords: business languages, intercultural communication, multilingualism, localization.

Career Outcomes: Graduates can work as international business communication specialists, corporate translators/interpreters, localization specialists, international marketing coordinators, intercultural trainers, export/import officers, or multilingual project managers, in multinationals, NGOs, localization firms, training providers.

Graduate Specialisation Program in Languages and Cultures for Business

The specialization course in Business Languages ??and Cultures aims to respond to a market need that involves mastering business-oriented languages ??and an intercultural and culture-specific approach to business. With a structure adaptable to the needs of the trainees, the course has the following general objectives:

to contribute to the (re)qualification and employability of workers and professionals, as well as to the internationalization of companies;

  • to provide a flexible learning environment for the development of linguistic, communicative and intercultural skills applied to the needs of the market and trainees;
  • to expand knowledge and skills acquired in previous training, reinforcing trainees’ competence in their roles in companies;
  • to foster autonomy and self-regulation skills that will support the applicability, continuity and sustainability of the learning achieved.