Master’s profile in Multilingual Communication Management

In the profile in Multilingual Communication Management of the MA in Language and Communication, you further develop your affinity for languages, harness your creativity and build expertise in the areas of language technologies, language consulting and language management.

This enables you to: 

• facilitate accessible communication across languages and cultures,
• drive innovation in language technologies, and
• strategically shape multilingual communication in advisory or specialist leadership roles.

In the core models, you acquire the academic and methodological foundations. In your profile, you gain practical professional expertise.

Detailed information on the programme structure

In the profile in Multilingual Communication Management, you learn everything needed to work as an expert or consultant for multilingual and accessible communication, including how to translate and convey complex content for different target groups and cultural contexts.

Focus areas:

• Professional translation (including quality assurance), transcreation and localisation
• Accessible communication (audio description, respeaking and easy language)
• Audiovisual translation (subtitling)
• Language technologies, terminology work and generative AI
• Management, strategy and consulting

You acquire a broad set of skills and expertise for working in the language industry, including:  

• profound linguistic, cultural and translation competencies,
• confident use of language technologies and AI,
• innovation skills,
• creativity, precision and intercultural sensitivity, and
• management and consulting skills.

You round off your personal competence profile with your Master’s thesis, in which you develop research-based solutions for a current topic from the language industry or the fields of language technology, multilingual communication or accessible communication.  

Information on full-time/part-time study: information sheet on Multilingual Communication Management study models (in German)

You take two or three languages of study:  

• Your native or primary language (A language)  
• An active foreign language (B language) or two passive second languages (C languages)

One of the languages you pursue must be German.

The results you achieve in the professional aptitude test will determine which of your languages are classified as A, B and/or C.

With the profile in Multilingual Communication Management, you qualify for a specialist or leadership role in the language industry – working on either a self-employed or employed basis.  

Your tasks may include:

• intensive and creative work with texts, languages and language technologies: professional translation, audiovisual translation and accessible communication,  
• strategic design of multilingual communication across all industries,
• adaptation of communication to various target groups and cultural contexts – responsibly, sustainably and with an individual touch,
• the informed use of language technologies and AI in multilingual communication,
• strategic multilingual communication management,
• close collaboration with experts from other industries, or  
• consulting on multilingual communication.

Possible roles:

• Language expert
• Expert in multilingual communication management
• Translator
• Expert in accessible communication
• Expert in multilingual information management and translation consulting
• Expert in language technologies  
• Terminologist
• Respeaker
• Subtitler

Typical employers:  

• Language service providers and language solution integrators
• Companies in the private sector and industry
• National and international organisations and authorities  
• Trade unions and associations  
• Film and television
• Self-employment in your own business

The profile in Multilingual Communication Management is suitable for graduates from all Bachelor's disciplines who have excellent language skills in at least two languages.

The profile is therefore suitable for graduates from the following disciplines:

• Linguistics and literary studies
• Humanities and social sciences
• Health sciences
• Business and law
• Engineering  
• Natural sciences  
• and more

The MA in Language and Communication offers you an ideal qualification for entering the language industry.

A Bachelor’s degree and excellent language skills in the selected two or three languages of study are required for admission to the programme. You must also pass a professional aptitude test.

Furthermore, you will need to possess the following additional qualities if you are to successfully manage your everyday study and professional life:

• Strong written and communication skills in various contexts
• The ability to grasp new concepts quickly
• Creativity in problem-solving
• Intellectual curiosity
• Resilience
• The ability to handle criticism and maintain focus
• Presentation skills
• Thorough knowledge of the economic, social, political and cultural conditions in the cultural areas of your languages of study