Languages and Intercultural Communication
Undergraduate
University
Daytime
Language of Teaching
Portuguese
Faculty / School
Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais
Area of Studies
Arts, Communication and Heritage
Overview
This degree will be renamed Languages and Intercultural Communication and the course structure will have updates from 2022/2023.
Objetives
- Allow a better articulation between the theoretical learning in traditional fields of knowledge
- Facilitate the access to understanding of elements which constitute the contemporary culture and communication
- Contribute to the training of professionals able to investigate, teach, manage and communicate
With this degree the students will be prepared to:
- Dominate three languages (Portuguese and two foreign), using as their support solid linguistic and cultural knowledge
- Dominate the theoretical and practical communicative aspects, associated with the multilingual circulation needs of information in business context, national and international
- Integrate the languages’ knowledge in a communicative perspective, in different social and professional contexts
- Create, use and manage linguistic and communicative resources in computerized supports
- Use that resources in different domains of application in areas of linguistic and communicative service (translation, writing, oral communication, reviewing, editing, etc.)
- Work in multilingual communication with a critical vision of production and diffusion’s information and knowledge in its region, country and Europe
The applications for public higher education are made annually through national call and/or special contests.
Career Opportunities
The graduates in Languages and Communication degree are able to work in:
- Monolingual and multilingual communication services in companies and institutions
- Information and communication management services
- Conception and management services of linguistic resources and language industry
- Conception services of linguistic, communicative, business and institutional politics
- Traditional linguistic services (translation, consecutive interpretation, wording, review and edition, etc.)
- Emergent linguistic services (wording and computer-assisted translation review, web edition, etc.)
External Link(s)
Faculty of Human and Social Sciences
Campus de Gambelas, edifício 1 - 8005-139 Faro
Phone: +351 289 800 914
Email : dahfchs@ualg.pt