What can you do with a degree in linguistics?

Will Fitzgerald

MSU Linguistics ’78

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play in a riot grrrl band

CREATE A WELL REGARDED SKETCH COMEDY SHOW

(CARRIE BROWNSTEIN, SOCIOLINGUISTICS ’94 FROM THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE)

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Strategies Teaching English Overseas

Relatively easy to get a modest job overseas with a BA

Consider getting an MA in ESL/EFL that pays your way

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Strategies for staying in linguistics

You'll need more schooling

Lots of math

Lots of linguistics

Lots of writing

Hound your professors for research opportunities

MSU has lots of opportunities

The right school will matter

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Strategies for computational linguistics

You'll need more schooling, unless ...

Lots of math

Probability/Combinatorics/Statistics

Coding

Never too late to start coding

never too early to start coding

Internships?

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Strategies for Literacy and Translation

Summer Institute of Linguistics/Wycliffe

American Bible Societies

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Stategies for Lexicography

Trend is computational (so see that slide)

Most Lexicographers don't have a background in linguistics

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Naming things

Might be able to get a marketing internship

Start now.

Start your own consultancy?

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Strategies for working with The NSA/CIA/FBI

Hiring "linguists"

Traffic analysis

Crypography

Computational linguistics

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Strategies for Networking

Professors

Alumni

Linguist List

Friend-of-friends

An offer ...

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Links

What can I do with this major? (Linguistics)

The Linguist List Job Board

LSA Job Board
Indeed.com Linguist jobs

ESL Cafe job board

Wycliffe opportunities

Learning Python through Rosalind

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