Is your work environment growing more and more multilingual? Do you need to interact with people from different cultures and countries? Learn how to succeed in today’s increasingly multilingual and globalised world.


In today’s globalised world, in which multilingualism is no longer exceptional but rather the rule for families, cities, institutions, schools, universities and businesses, it is increasingly necessary to find ways of managing activities and organisations that take this new reality into account. Indeed, multilingualism has emerged as a strategic issue for major corporations and institutions, such as the European Union. Likewise, town councils and other local institutions, charitable organisations, employee associations and SMEs, not to mention schools, increasingly need to establish criteria for the use of different languages and to offer multilingual services for their clients, employees and the communities they serve.

The purpose of this postgraduate course is to offer the necessary training for employees at these organisations, who are faced with the challenges of multilingualism in the projects they design and their organisational processes, as well as for anyone else interested in entering the field. In order to ensure a broad, comparative view of the phenomenon, the programme will not focus exclusively on the linguistic context in Catalonia or Spain, but rather will also study and analyse other contexts, especially in bilingual and multilingual regions of Europe and North America. Knowledge of the many different approaches to managing multilingualism is one of the keys to determining how best to adapt to the challenges and requirements of each context.

The faculty is made up of lecturers and outside experts from the different fields addressed in the programme. Some have extensive backgrounds in language policy and planning; others offer the expertise they have acquired from living, studying and working abroad in contact with other languages and multilingual situations. Students in the programme will learn first-hand about good practice in the field and will be able to dialogue with professionals and guest lecturers who will present their own experiences in the different fields of multilingualism management.

Students may choose from three specialisations:
• Linguistic diversity management: companies and ICT
• Linguistic diversity management: immigration and business
• Linguistic diversity management: education and immigration

For more information, kindly contact the programme counsellor (Mercè Solé) at: postgraugdlc@uoc.edu.

• Language service professionals. 
• Professionals who work as language consultants and facilitators at organisations such as the Catalan Consortium for Language Normalisation (CPNL) or the Secretariat for Language Policy (SPL), as well as at other public, private or civil-society organisations. 
• Environment and language, multiculturalism and social cohesion (LIC in Catalan) planning officers. 
• Primary- and secondary-school teachers responsible for planning and managing their schools’ language projects. 
• Business professionals in the fields of human resources, communication, customer service and corporate social responsibility. 
• Language integration professionals (mediators, etc.). 
• Social, immigration and citizenship service workers and managers. 
• It may also be of interest to graduates interested in specialising in aspects of applied sociolinguistics.

Price

2.450 euros

Consult the financial aid that the UOC offers to international students.

 

The programme fees should be confirmed on enrolment.