Is a Linguistics Degree Worth It? Will You Find a Job as a Linguistics Major?

[@JamesWNokes]

Awesome video with a lot of really useful suggestions! I was going to suggest that a series of additional videos to expand on each of these topics would be really fascinating. Also, sociolinguistics and interventional conversation analysis are really useful on the applied side, particularly in healthcare settings. Forensic linguistics can be really interesting as well. Just tossing a couple ideas out there if you decide to do more of these informative videos. :)

[@alexusandmichi]

Yes, great points! Thanks so much for adding them! If we make a part 2, I’ll talk about those! Also thank you so much for watching!!

[@JamesWNokes]

@@alexusandmichi Anytime. It’s been awesome seeing this develop for both of you. Congrats!

[@isaaclee2241]

Super interesting! I applied for the U of H's SLS program for the 2024 Fall! Hope to meet you soon!

[@alexusandmichi]

Ahh so exciting!! Fingers crossed!! Is this for an MA or PhD? Hopefully see you soon then! 🥰

[@isaaclee2241]

@@alexusandmichi For PhD! Thank you so much!!

[@englishwithconfidence]

Thank you for making such an informative video. Encouraged by your vdieos, I am also applying for PhD Linguistics program in USA. I was wondering if you could review my SOP.

[@alexusandmichi]

Ahh, so excited for you! Of course, I am happy to review it for you! Which schools are you applying for? You can send it to us via email if you would like!

[@englishwithconfidence]

​​@@alexusandmichiThanks a lot. Can I have your email address? I can't find it.

[@alexusandmichi]

of course! [e-mail]

[@englishwithconfidence]

Thank you so much.@@alexusandmichi

[@thandoolivia5481]

Thank you! This helped me so much❤

[@alexusandmichi]

Of course!! We are glad you found this helpful!! 😊

[@crazymelody3384]

Thank you sister ❤

[@Jonathan-ob5mx]

Thanks for the info! I’m looking to transfer from community college to Uni for a bachelors in linguistics. They have a minor in Tesol or computational Linguistics paired with this degree. What are your thoughts on the Tesol certificate ?

[@alexusandmichi]

A TESOL certificate is great if you want to teach English to non English speakers! Many places abroad accept it, too! That‘ll be what most employers look for if you want to teach English! You could still do TESOL research with the certificate, too. But it’ll all be teaching-focused. Computational linguists are what all the big companies want to hire! It’ll be a lot of data analysis with large datasets of spoken and/or written texts. You could stay in academia or go into industry! So it all depends on what you prefer doing once you’re done with the degree!

[@alexusandmichi]

This video that we made about different careers in linguistics may help you, too: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZ3RhalugZ6tabssi=O3WwVaiZOEZcJlRE

[@anisaamalia8365]

what a good insight! thanks for sharing

[@alexusandmichi]

Thanks for watching! 🙂

[@mattreggie4481]

Well, if you get your Ph.D., you have a great chance to get employed at the university, where you got it. If it's not the case, these chances of getting your dream job as a certified linguist shrink like...eh, sorry, I wouldn't really like to make a politically incorrect comparison here. Why is like that? Because, what gets you employed in case of a non - academic job, is EXPERIENCE. Without it, a potential employer won't even give a [sorry, I feel like using the F - word here] about your diploma. It's a fact of life.

[@JosephReading]

im at Northern arizona university doing english w/ emphasis in linguistics. They have the applied linguistics program here. And also I know up here they are working with native american languages.

[@alexusandmichi]

NAU is an awesome program!! So many great people to learn from!

[@JosephReading]

can you do applied linguistics and like anthropology? Like working with ancient languages or something?

[@alexusandmichi]

That’s definitely a good idea! If you want to do applied linguistics, you could probably eventually work with people that work on language revitalization programs, if you only care about the language side of things, maybe an academic career in language documentation?

[@fishnow1560]

My father was Louis Janus. He passed away recently. I want to kearn linguistics

[@Jefflagarde1991]

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[@alexusandmichi]

🥰🥰🥰

[@justincueva2294]

San José State computer science and linguistics program ?

[@alexusandmichi]

Sounds like it could be a great idea! We don’t know anyone there personally or haven’t heard much about either of the programs but the combination is definitely a good one!

[@alma574]

@@alexusandmichi What about Trinity College Dublin Computer Science, Linguistics and a Language program? What about studying Linguistics as an International student say like in Uni in Japan?