American Indian/Native American Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
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Overview
American indian/native American languages, literatures, and linguistics is a program that focuses on one or more of the languages Native to the Western hemisphere, with an emphasis on American Indian languages, but including other Native American languages. includes instruction in philology; oral and written literatures; inuit and aleut languages; hawaiian; north American language families, including, but not limited to, algonkian, athabascan, siouan, muskogean, iroquoian, yuman, mayan, zapotecan, and uto-aztecan; South American language families, including, but not limited to, andean-equatorial, ge-pano-carib, and macro-chibchan; and other minor languages.
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Career with the highest median salary ($63K) associated with this program: Secondary School Teachers
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Careers for program graduates
American indian/native American languages, literatures, and linguistics majors work in these careers, which are sized by percentage of majors in the career (at least 1%) and colored by the predominant level of education.
Elementary and Middle School S...Postsecondary TeachersSpecialized ManagersLawyers, and judges, magistrat...ClergySecondary School TeachersCustomer Service Representativ...Accountants and AuditorsEducation and childcare admini...Secretaries and Administrative...Software DevelopersPhysiciansProject Management SpecialistsFirst-Line Supervisors of Reta...Financial ManagersChief executives and legislato...Librarians and Media Collectio...Management AnalystsRegistered NursesFirst-Line Supervisors of Non-...Retail SalespersonsInterpreters and TranslatorsComputer and Information Syste...Labor Relations Specialists
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Careers
Recommended careers for those with a degree in less common foreign languages
Following are the jobs recommended for those who study Less Common Foreign Languages (which combines 35 programs). These are listed in order of highest nationwide employment.
  1. Secondary School Teachers
  2. Interpreters and Translators
  3. Postsecondary Foreign Language and Literature Teachers
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Is this degree preparing you for a career with a salary you want? Are there lots of openings in the near future? The Department of Education suggests these careers as a starting list, and Ididio hopes that if the career you're most interested in doesn't appear here, you will head over to our Career Explorer and learn more about paths to your best career.
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Explore schools that offer American indian/native American languages, literatures, and linguistics degrees and certificates
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Careers for less common foreign languages majors
less common foreign languages is part of a larger collection of programs: Linguistics and Foreign Languages and Literature. Is there a different program that's close to less common foreign languages that might be a better match for your interests? You can use this table to see a little about the programs that fall under this umbrella. If you click on any of the table headers, that will sort the table by that column, or click on a row and see Ididio's profile for that program.
Gender
Gender of recent graduates
Of all people with any degree in American indian/native American languages, literatures, and linguistics earned in the last academic year, 62% were women.
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Context: Percentage women
This major has a lower percentage of women than 40% other programs.
Distribution: salaries by gender
Does gender greatly influence your salary with this degree? The closer the bar are, the less discrepancy there is.
$63K$53K$0$50K$100K$150K$200K$250KWomenMen
Context: Salary inequity
For less common foreign languages graduates, men have a 19% higher median salary than women, This is near the middle of salary differentials within each program's graduates.
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Race/Origin of recent graduates
Here is an overview of race/origin for all American indian/native American languages, literatures, and linguistics graduates from this last academic year.
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Context: Percentage of Minority Graduates
Minority students comprise a higher percentage of graduates than in 92% of other programs.