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Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis - SIMM27

7,5 CREDITS | SPRING TERM

What is text? How does one analyze a discourse? What does it mean to have texts and documents as research material?

Overview

Integrating theory and practice

This course is aimed at providing you with a comprehensive understanding of the use of text and discourse analytical methods within the social sciences, and to convey the necessary practical skills required for their application.

Throughout the course you will gain in-depth knowledge of discourse and text analysis. While the main focus of the course is on different types of discourse analysis, we will also explore the potential of and challenges with text analysis and document analysis. The course is structured in a way that makes it possible to integrate theoretical and practical moments of learning the methods. By carrying out team exercises in text analysis, by presenting and discussing them during the workshops, and by writing the individual paper, you will have an opportunity to train your analytical skills acquired during the course.

Online course platform

This course uses Canvas as the online course platform. The course platform will be opened one week before the course begins to all students who were accepted. Here you will be able to access literature, assignments, announcements, as well as participate in discussions and communicate with teachers. 

Schedule

The course schedule can be found under the course information on the right. Please note that the final version of the schedule will be made available four weeks before the course begins, and changes may occur until that point. A more detailed schedule will be available on the course platform on Canvas.

Excerpts from student evaluations

“I am so happy that from day one I felt that the course had applied a gender perspective, even intersectional perspective.”

“This course has provided me with analytical tools that I will definitely use, (since) for a rhetorician it is vital to understand discourse to be able to understand persuasion.”

About the course

Next course period: 
2024-04-25 to 2024-06-02

Course schedule:
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Course syllabus

Course literature