Undergraduate Seminar 1.S3.EPC.47
Course objectives
Undergraduate Seminar 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. Review of drafts and outlines, taking notes, documenting sources
2. Discussing literature critically, what are credible academic sources
3. Narrowing perspectives, selecting methods, contextualizing theories
4. Representative data, methods of data collecting, qualitative/quantitative/mixed paradigms
5. Designing a study, justifying a research procedure, criteria for establishing validity and threshold
6. Analysis of data, presenting results, (using tables, charts and graphs)
7. Discussing results in the context of the literature on the subject
8. Concluding, identifying implications for further research and limitations of the study.
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Methods of instruction/ forms of classroom activity
reading assignments, writing assignments, individual work, discussion, ICTtools/ MSTeams/ Moodle
Field of study
Student workload
Study level
Education profile
Type of course
obligatory courses
The semester in which the subject is carried out
Mode
Requirements
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
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 nodels 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)
Assessment criteria
Forms of evaluation of learning outcomes
1. Individual reading assignments - responses, reviews - 50% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,5)
2. Designing one's own BA thesis research project (data analysis, discussion, conclusion) - 50% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4,5,6)
Criteria of evaluation:
60% = 3
80% = 4
100% = 5
Bibliography
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
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
Additional information
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