Program of Studies
Professional opportunities
Graduates of the
Department of Linguistics
can find employment:
- in libraries and archives
- in newspapers and periodicals
- in publishing companies and organisations
- in local government
- as teachers of language and literature in secondary education (both public and private)
- in work related to their field of competence in the publishing area (as translators and editors, linguists, editorial consultants, writers of materials for language and literature courses at school level etc.) and in the press
- as teachers of Greek as a foreign language
- as casual teachers or instructors in various educational institutions (professional training institutes and centres, the national employment organisation, colleges of studies in tourism, defence force academies, police academies, nursing colleges, etc.)
- in programs organised by regional education extension commitees to teach Greek in literacy courses and to socially marginalised groups (e.g. Roma)
- in research centres
- in theatrical organisations and in the mass media.
- in the computer industry, on speech recognition, search engines, and artificial intelligence.
- as a translator or interpreter anywhere, from government to hospitals to courts of law.
- on language documentation or do fieldwork, as language consultants to document, analyze, and preserve languages (many of which are endangered); engage in language-related fieldwork, including documenting endangered languages, conducting language surveys, establishing literacy programs, and translating documents of cultural heritage.
- Work with dictionaries (lexicography)
- Become a consultant on language in professions such as law or medicine
- Work for a product-naming company in companies that name products and do extensive linguistic research on the associations that people make with particular sounds and classes of sounds.
- in libraries and archives
- in newspapers and periodicals
- in publishing companies and organisations
- in local government
- as teachers of language and literature in secondary education (both public and private)
- in work related to their field of competence in the publishing area (as translators and editors, linguists, editorial consultants, writers of materials for language and literature courses at school level etc.) and in the press
- as teachers of Greek as a foreign language
- as casual teachers or instructors in various educational institutions (professional training institutes and centres, the national employment organisation, colleges of studies in tourism, defence force academies, police academies, nursing colleges, etc.)
- in programs organised by regional education extension commitees to teach Greek in literacy courses and to socially marginalised groups (e.g. Roma)
- in research centres
- in theatrical organisations and in the mass media.
- in the computer industry, on speech recognition, search engines, and artificial intelligence.
- as a translator or interpreter anywhere, from government to hospitals to courts of law.
- on language documentation or do fieldwork, as language consultants to document, analyze, and preserve languages (many of which are endangered); engage in language-related fieldwork, including documenting endangered languages, conducting language surveys, establishing literacy programs, and translating documents of cultural heritage.
- Work with dictionaries (lexicography)
- Become a consultant on language in professions such as law or medicine
- Work for a product-naming company in companies that name products and do extensive linguistic research on the associations that people make with particular sounds and classes of sounds.