Undergraduate Proseminar 1.S3.EPC.58
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
Field of study
Student workload
Study level
Education profile
Type of course
(in Polish) seminaria dyplomowe
obligatory courses
The semester in which the subject is carried out
Mode
Course coordinators
Term 2024/25-Z: | Term 2023/24-Z: |
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 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)
Assessment criteria
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)
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 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
Additional information
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