Undergraduate Proseminar

studia pierwszego stopnia

English in Public Communication

semestr 5

studia stacjonarne

profil akademicki

fakultatywne
obowiązkowe
seminaria dyplomowe

Mieszany: realizowany zdalnie i w sali

ECTS points in relation to student’s duties

total number of ECTS points: 3

1 ECTS – 30 hours: participation in classes (50% University site; 50% online)

2 ECTS – 45 hours: preparation + 15 hours: consultations

Course description:

The course is designed to enable students to become acquainted with relevant literature as well as the required academic writing skills to become qualified to frame and undertake a study for a BA diploma paper

Course objectives:

Undergraduate Proseminar is aimed to facilitate work on a selected aspect of communication studies with a particular attention to selecting and reading relevant literature, responding to it critically, reviewing relevant works, defining key concepts and summarizing extant studies. Students apply advanced writing skills in EAP.

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Course content

1. Reading and discussion of selected classical texts in the discipline

2. Reporting on current developments in scholarship, doing literature reviews.

3. Analysing text organization, argumentation and style of selected texts.

4. Practising the skills of selecting relevant information, reporting, discussing and debating on selected issues from the literature

5. Solving problems on the basis of the literature.

6. Selecting relevant sources for individual diploma projects

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Methods of instruction/ forms of classroom activity:

reading assignments, writing assignments, individual work, discussion, mentoring, tutoring, supervision, ICTtools/ MSTeams/ Moodle

Reading list

Selected relevant monographs, readers, journal articles, online materials within the scope of the seminar

Stokes, Jane (2003) How to Do Media and Cultural Studies. London: Sage.

Supplementary reading

McQuail, Denis (2010) McQuails's Mass Communication Theory (sixth edition) London: Sage.

Danesi, Marcel (2009) Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies. London/New York: Sharpe

Learning outcomes acc to PRK 2019:

Knowledge

1. Students understand the range of socially oriented language studies and communication studies, namely of semiotics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, stylistics and rhetoric, familiar with the main research traditions in media studies and business communication and new developments in these fields of study (k_W01/P6S_WG)

2. Students know rules of academic exposition and argumentation (in speech and writing) (k_W07/P6S_WG)

Skills

3. Students can implement terminology and theoretical models for research procedures: formulate research questions/hypotheses, review literature, select methods and tools, analyze and interpret material, process and present results, discuss and interpret results, in order to answer research questions related to language and communication in the public sphere (k_U01, k_U03/P6S_UW)

4. Students can search for, analyze, select, evaluate and use information collected from various sources and presented in various media (k_U07/P6S_UK) (m-U-1/P6S_UO)

Social competences

5. Students think independently and recognize priorities and objectives in self-study, prioritize and execute in a timely manner their assignments in research (k_K01/P6S_KK)

6. Students approach public communications in an analytic and critical way (k_K02/P6S_KK)

Forms of evaluation of learning outcomes

1. Active class participation (also in virtual classrooms), debating and responding to presentations – 20% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,4,6)

2. Individual reading assignments - responses, reviews - 20% of the final grade (outcome 2,3,5)

3. Designing one's own BA thesis research project (topic, outline/plan, introduction) - 60% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4,6)