Undergraduate Seminar 1
Informacje ogólne
Kod przedmiotu: | 1.2.D3.EPC.EM.10 |
Kod Erasmus / ISCED: | (brak danych) / (brak danych) |
Nazwa przedmiotu: | Undergraduate Seminar 1 |
Jednostka: | Wydział Filologiczny |
Grupy: |
Studia stacjonarne Studia stacjonarne |
Punkty ECTS i inne: |
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Język prowadzenia: | (brak danych) |
Rodzaj przedmiotu: | obowiązkowe |
Rodzaj przedmiotu: | obowiązkowe |
Tryb prowadzenia: | Realizowany zdalnie |
Literatura uzupełniająca: | (tylko po angielsku) Selected relevant monographs, readers, journal articles, online materials within the scope of the particular interests and topics |
Skrócony opis: |
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. |
Pełny opis: |
Undergraduate Seminar 1 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. 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 |
Literatura: |
Obligatory (provided by the instructor or found in the library) 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 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 |
Efekty uczenia się: |
Knowledge 1. Students have a systematic detailed knowledge of the range of socially oriented language studies and communication studies, namely of semiotics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, stylistics and rhetoric, be familiar with the main research traditions in media studies and business communication and new developments in these fields of study (k-W-1) 2. Students have a systematic knowledge of rules of academic exposition and argumentation (in speech and writing) (k-W-4, k-W-7) Skills 3. Students can implement basic 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-U-1, k-U-2) 4. Students can search for, analyze, select, evaluate and use information collected from various sources and presented in various media Students can use the conventions of English academic discourse to present and write about communication research (k-U-5) 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-K-2) 6. Students approach public communications in an analytic and critical way (k-K-1) |
Metody i kryteria oceniania: |
Class participation (also in virtual classrooms), debating and responding to presentations – 20% 1,2, 4, 6 Individual reading assignments - responses, reviews - 30% 2, 3, 5 Designing one's own BA thesis research project (topic, outline/plan, introduction) - 50% 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 |
Właścicielem praw autorskich jest Uniwersytet Opolski.