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
– Guided by the instructors, the afternoon will be open for students to explore readings, collaborate with fellow PhD students, and reflect on how the day’s discussion might influence their own studies and consider revising their approach to discourse.
Day 2
– The course will continue with talks about discourse approaches attending to Critical/Ethnographic Approaches and Nexus Analysis.
– 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.
– Guided by the instructors, the afternoon will be open for students to explore readings, collaborate with fellow PhD students, and reflect on how the day’s discussion might influence their own studies and consider revising their approach to discourse.
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 (possible) approach to discourse studies and refine and/or (re)design 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 read all literature on 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.
Lecturer:
Associate Professor John McClellan
Associate Professor Lise-Lotte Holmgreen
Associate Professor Ann Starbæk Bager, SDU
Associate Professor NN
ECTS: 3- Teacher: Ann Bager
- Teacher: Lise-Lotte Holmgreen
- Teacher: John McClellan