The Master Language Variation and Multilingualism at Radboud University explores linguistic diversity and multilingualism from theoretical, sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives, thereby allowing students to have a full grasp on these topics and their relation.

In this specialisation, you learn to become a competent linguist who has an understanding of language variation and multilingualism, two central and interrelated topics within linguistics. 

Courses generally offer a nice mix of theoretical and practical knowledge: they for instance situate insights from linguistic and language acquisition theory within the context of everyday communication and contemporary language use. For those with sufficient language proficiency, students can also integrate language-specific linguistics courses in Dutch, German, French and Spanish from the Masterlanguage programme, which offers linguistics courses in English, Dutch, Italian, French and Spanish that Radboud organises in collaboration with other Dutch universities.

Language Variation and Multilingualism offers you the opportunity to pick and choose those courses that interest you the most, thereby allowing you to create the profile that you desire.

Something for you?

• You'll have noticeable freedom in creating your own programme.
• You'll have the opportunity to do an internship as part of your programme.
• The programme is connected to the research carried out at the Centre for Language Studies (CLS).
• You will be part of an international classroom, coming into contact with different languages.

Career prospects:

This programme prepares for jobs in which linguistic knowledge is applied. Language Variation and Multilingualism offers you an intensive learning experience in both linguistics and/or a particular second language. This will further enhance your language skills and may allow you to pursue a career working in both your native language and the second language.

Possible occupations:

• Variety of occupations in language policy
• Variety of occupations in language testing
• Communication consultant
• Journalist
• Translator
• Variety of occupations in language technology
• Developer of educational materials
• Researcher