Course description, incl. learning objectives and prerequisites:
Discourse studies is becoming increasingly valuable across a range of research areas. This PhD course invites students to participate in three days of conversations about the interdisciplinary field of discourse studies with attention to different approaches and methodologies to consider for your PhD studies and beyond.
Guided by four faculty with experience doing research using discourse approaches, the aim of the course is to help students develop their own approaches to discourse that support their unique interests or areas of study.
This course will consist of three days of discussions with the time and space necessary for students to develop their own ideas, talk with fellow PhD students, and receive mentoring from the faculty co-teaching the course:
Day 1
– The course will begin with a joint discussion among the faculty co-instructors about the field of discourse studies. While discussing their own experiences with discourse perspectives, we will discuss core concepts, philosophical assumptions, and conceptual grounding.
– The sessions will continue with discussions focused on Critical Discourse Analysis and Organizational Discourse Studies
– The afternoon will be open for students to explore readings, collaborate with fellow PhD students, and consider how the topics of the day might influence their own studies.
Day 2
– The course will continue with talks about discourse approaches attending to Participative Enquiry and Multimodal Approaches to discourse.
– The day will conclude with a joint discussion among the co-instructors and students summarizing and contemplating the key ideas and reflecting on how ideas might be best incorporated into students’ own work.
– The afternoon will be open for students to explore readings, collaborate with fellow PhD students, and consider how the topics of the day might influence their own studies.
Day 3
– The final day of the course is dedicated to small workshop-style sessions among students guided by the instructors. Students will be asked to reflect on their approach to discourse studies and refine and/or redesign their methods to best examine their particular topics or problems of interest.
– The aim of the session is for students to leave the course with new methods for discourse studies and confident in their approach to discourse as being useful to accomplish their desired research goals.
– The course will conclude with a reflective group discussion among the co-instructors and the students recapping the ideas for the course and inviting continued discussions.
There will be two prerequisites for the
course:
- Students must prepare for the course by reading background literature per the reading plan (in English)
- Students must submit a 5 to 8-page paper (in English) detailing the student’s interest in Discourse Approaches. This paper would describe the student’s problem/research question(s) and include a brief review of relevant literature, and a description of the student’s proposed discursive approach to gain insights into their problem/research question(s). We welcome students offering a preview of their PhD proposal/work.
The language of the course will be English.
- Organizer:John McClellan and Lise-Lotte Holmgreen, Culture and Learning, ComOrg
- Lecturers:
The course will be co-taught by the following four faculty engaged in the field of discourse studies.
– Rick Iedema, Professor and Director of the Centre for Team-Based Practice & Learning in Health Care at King's College London.
– Ann Starbæk Bager, Associate Professor at the Department of Design and Communication at Southern Denmark University.
– Lise-Lotte Holmgreen, Associate Professor at the Department of Culture and Learning at Aalborg University
– John G. McClellan, Associate Professor at the Department of Culture and Learning at Aalborg University
ECTS:With full participation in the course, a student will gain 3 ECTS.
Time:
5th -7th May 2021
Venue:Virtual. Due to Covid 19 restrictions the course will be held online via Zoom meetings.
Number of seats:
20Deadline:15. April 2021 (deadline extended)
- Teacher: Ann Starbæk Bager
- Teacher: Lise-Lotte Holmgreen
- Teacher: John McClellan