Communication is critical to the functioning of all institutions and organisations, and there is a strong demand for professionals with specialist communication skills in all sectors. Finely tuned strategies for communicating not only within the workplace but also with an increasingly diverse range of multicultural and multilingual clients, partners and other stakeholders are essential for institutions and organisations to achieve successful outcomes.

This major will provide you with a depth and breadth of knowledge of linguistic, social and cultural theory, as well as analytical techniques to enable you to develop and implement communications practices and strategies in diverse, complex and multicultural organisational contexts, both locally and globally. You’ll develop a practical understanding of language for effective written, spoken and multimodal communication, and you’ll acquire the skills to share this knowledge and collaborate with others to address individual and organisational needs.

Key Features

• Your learning will be supported by language academics with extensive industry experience who specialise in communication research in a variety of professional contexts. 
• You’ll explore communication in a wide range of organisational settings, including commercial organisations, government institutions and non-government organisations. 
• You’ll study in the most diverse and largest linguistics department in Australia, and in one of the best-equipped research and clinical environments in the world. 
• Macquarie is ranked among the top 100 in the world in linguistics (QS World University Rankings by Subject, 2018). 

• Communication consultant 
• Communication officer 
• Communication policy developer  
• Communication researcher  
• Communication trainer 
• Media and public relations specialist