Subject Seminar 2 1.S3.EPC.45
Course objectives
Subject Seminar 2 is designed to apply the foundations of communication studies for the preparation of diploma papers. Students are exposed to specialized and extended materials on the subject of mediated public communication, are expected to acquire specialist knowledge pertaining to the subject of their choice and work towards producing a complete research project.
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1. How to organize a research study in public communication
2. How to plan and design an empirical study
3. How to review and incorporate the literature on the subject
4. How to analyse data in quantitative and qualitative approaches
5. How to make sense of the data, examples and evidence
6. How to present research results
7. How to put results in perspective - discussion
8. How to draw conclusions and implications from a study
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Methods of instruction/ forms of classroom activity
multimedia presentations, discussion, text analysis, individual work, reading and writing assignments, ICT tools/MSTeams/Moodle
Kierunek studiów
Nakład pracy studenta
Poziom studiów
Profil kształcenia
Rodzaj przedmiotu
obowiązkowe
Semestr, w którym realizowany jest przedmiot
Tryb prowadzenia
Wymagania
Koordynatorzy przedmiotu
Efekty kształcenia
Learning outcomes acc to PRK 2019
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_W02/P6S_WG)
2. Students have a systematic knowledge of rules of academic exposition and argumentation (in speech and writing) (k_W07/P6S_WG)
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_U04/P6S_UK; k_U06/P6S_UK)
4. Students can search for, analyze, select, evaluate and use information collected from various sources and presented in various media (m-U-1/P6S_UO)
5. Students can use the conventions of English academic discourse to present and write about communication research (k_U03/P6S_UW)
Social competences
6. Students think independently and recognize priorities and objectives in self-study, prioritize and execute in a timely manner their assignments in research (k_K02/P6S_KK)
Kryteria oceniania
Forms of evaluation of learning outcomes
1. Active class participation, debating and responding to presentations – 20% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,4,6)
2. Individual reading assignments - responses, reviews - 30% of the final grade (outcome 3,4,5,6)
3. Written drafts (section paragraphs – introduction, justification, literature review, design of the study, methods and procedures, data, results, discussion, conclusion)- 50% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4,5,6)
Criteria of evaluation:
60% = 3
80% = 4
100% = 5
Literatura
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
Więcej informacji
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