Transdisciplinary perspectives

studia drugiego stopnia

Master of Liberal Arts

semestr 3

studia stacjonarne

profil akademicki

obowiązkowe

Realizowany w sali

ECTS points in relation to student’s duties:

total number of ECTS = 5

1 ects = 30h in class

0,5 ects = 15 h for consultations

3,5 ects = 100 h for preparation for class (reading, workshop assignments)

Course description

The course in Transdisciplinary perspectives encompasses several branches of linguistics that can be applied in inter/transdisciplinary studies by the students.

Course objective

- to acquaint the students with core theories in linguistics, providing them with access to multiple tools for their MA thesis research

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Course content

corpus linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics. Several workshops will be conduted to implement these tools in practice.

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Methods of instruction/ forms of classroom activity:

multimedia presentation, extensive reading, analysis and discussion of representative examples, writing, ICT tools/MSTeams

Reading list

Brezina, V. (2018). Statistics in corpus linguistics: A practical guide. Cambridge University Press.

Grundy, P. (2019). Doing pragmatics. Routledge.

Han, C. (2015). How to do critical discourse analysis: A multimodal introduction.

Toomey, A. H., Markusson, N., Adams, E., & Brockett, B. (2015). Inter-and trans-disciplinary research: A critical perspective. GSDR 2015 Brief.

Learning outcomes acc to PRK 2019

Knowledge:

Students know and understand

1. scientific facts pertaining to the complexity of phenomena related to language in (mediated) communication (k_W01/P7S_WG)

2. specialist terminology and advanced reasoning and presentation techniques characteristic of academic exposition in the selected discipline (k_W09/P7S_WG)

Skills

Students can

3. recognise and replicate typical genres, styles and rhetorical conventions characteristic of (academic) communication (k_U01/P7S_UW)

4. conduct a debate according to a particular rhetorical format, respond in writing to offer alternative viewpoint or reasoned critique (k_U12/P7S_UK)

5. use English at least at the level of C1 of the Common European Framework for Languages and in the scope of specialist terminology in the humanities and social sciences (k_U13/P7S_UK)

Forms of evaluation of learning outcomes

1. Active participation in classes - 45% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4,5)

2. Essay - 55% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4,5)

Grading criteria:

60 -67% 3.0

68 - 75% 3.5

76 - 83% 4.0

84 - 91% 4.5

92 - 100% 5.0