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Get on track for a fascinating career in a rapidly evolving field with Lancaster’s world-class linguistics team. Gain a higher-level qualification and learn essential intercultural communication skills.
Meeting and working with different people of different nationalities and backgrounds is part of everyday life. Discover how the cultural diversity in the workplace means organisations need to reassess their communication and training strategies.
Why Lancaster?
- Study with a world-class linguistics team in a dynamic, international environment
- Boost your career prospects with a higher-level degree, demonstrating your intercultural awareness and in-depth research skills
- Enjoy the flexibility of designing part of your degree based on your specific interests
- Make the most of our outstanding resources including fully equipped labs for eye-tracking and phonetics
- Use your degree as a stepping-stone to become a communications expert in the public or private sector
Develop effective intercultural interaction
What do you do when cultural misunderstandings impact productivity? How can you contribute to an inclusive workplace? How do you incorporate intercultural awareness into a project, product or initiative?? Interacting with professionals from diverse cultural backgrounds is key in today’s workplace.
Our MA in Intercultural Business Communication provides you with the knowledge and practical skills needed for effective intercultural interactions at work and in business. Be among the first to hear from our experts on their latest work in:
- Intercultural pragmatics
- Business communication
- Bilingual cognition
- Linguistic and cultural relativity
Tailor your studies
In this programme you’ll discover how culture and language influence our interactions when we travel, do business or attend a workplace meeting. You’ll explore how we communicate with others and relate that to the theory behind different aspects of intercultural communication.
You’ll also be able to develop your research skills in linguistics and English language, equipping yourself for roles that require investigative skills and fact-based analysis and advice.
Shape your degree around your interests by choosing from our wide range of optional modules, from cognitive linguistics to second language acquisition. Plus, you can focus on one of your special interests in your dissertation. Previous students have chosen topics as diverse as the representation of linguistic and cultural groups in the media, how foreign language teachers teach intercultural competence and how cultural complexity influences workplace talk.
Don’t worry if you’re returning to education or aren’t used to studying in the UK – we’re ready to provide extra support if you need it. You can get help with any aspect of your course including academic reading, writing and presentation skills.
Networking opportunities
We pride ourselves on offering much more than high quality teaching. Join one of our research groups and networks such as Culture and Communication, Discourse and Text or Cognitive Linguistics. You’ll find we offer a host of events, talks and activities to complement and enhance your course. You can also join one of the lively university societies or take part in one of our international summer schools.
Our Culture and Communication Network provides the opportunity to connect with colleagues across Lancaster University who work in different disciplines and are interested in any aspect of communication and culture.