Master's Programme in Applied Linguistics and Text Analytics
HSE University
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Campus location
Moscow, Russia
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
2 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
RUB 195,000 / per year *
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Introduction
New program. The first intake was in 2020.
The program prepares students for careers as research linguists. They may also find jobs as experts or consultants capable of utilizing digital tools for text analysis. These skills, in combination with traditional methods of linguistic investigation, meaning that graduates can analyze texts in any language and of any volume, thereby ensuring the best solutions for applied tasks in business and interdisciplinary research. In addition, graduates may work in education and R&D as well as in public and private institutions dealing with text analytics, IT security, advertising consultancy, and marketing.
Campus location: Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
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Curriculum
Curriculum
The curriculum of the Master’s Programme ‘Applied Linguistics and Text Analytics’ is structured in such a way that it contains courses that are an integral part of applied linguistics programmes around the world, which facilitates international academic mobility.
Program Outcome
During Your Studies
Over the course of this programme, you will acquire skills and competencies in the following fields:
- generating and analysing texts;
- conducting research aimed at developing innovative electronic language resources;
- monitoring data arrays;
- making short- and long-range forecasts in diverse subject areas with the aid of computer tools of linguistic research;
- conducting comparative analysis of data from various topical domains;
- making expert assessments and judgment estimates;
- drawing up quality analytic documents.
Programme Benefits
Our programme is fundamentally different from traditional master’s programmes in linguistics due to its combination of two substantive blocks:
- fundamental linguistic disciplines, including corpus technologies,
- applied subjects, which allow students to gain competency in text analytics with the aid of digital technologies.
Career Opportunities
Career Opportunities
Along with the traditional fields of translation and education, our graduates are well suited for work in business companies, banks, government agencies, culture institutions, press services, etc. – virtually in any organization where monitoring and analytics are required, where IT security has to be ensured, a company image has to be created, or customer loyalty needs to be shaped.
As indicated by several surveys of vacancies on the market, employers display great demand for the competences which students of this programme acquire.
Below is an incomplete list of jobs for which programme graduates are competitive:
- text analyst
- IT security specialist
- expert on company image
- IT security supervisor
- PR specialist
- executive/business assistant
- personal security consultant
- media account manager
- data scientist
- XML-file processing operator
- software localiser
- research linguist (NLP)
- subtitle editor
- social media information field analyst
- developer of chat- and CleverBot services