Ideas for careers

Minor or Second major

Career specialty

Foreign language/American Sign Language

• Translator/interpreter (signed and oral languages)
• Teach a foreign language
• Language education policy (e.g. minority language achievement)
• Teach English as a second language

Business/marketing

• Product naming and advertising

K12 education

• Teaching
• Testing specialist
• Language education policy
• Curriculum developer
• Textbook writer

Computer science

• Language Technology
• Biomedical Informatics (electronic health record analysis)
• Business Intelligence
• Automatic Speech Recognition
• Speech Synthesis

Drama

• Acting
• Dialect Coaching
• Screenwriting

Public policy

• Language and public policy: diversity and ethnicity
• Language Conservation

Political science

• Government Bureaus: FBI, NSA, CIA
• State Department
• Foreign Affairs
• Community activist

Criminal justice

• Forensic linguistics

Communication/journalism

• Journalism

Further Education/Certificates

Career specialty

Theoretical Linguistics

• Research in linguistic theory
• Language documentation and revitalization

Computational Linguistics

• Natural Language Processing

TESOL

• Teaching English as a second language

English

• Writing, teaching, editorial work (e.g. publishing)

Law

• Specialization in law texts or forensic linguistics