Language and Identity: Researching and Writing Who We Are (2026/2027: Periode 2)

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Cursusdoel

After successfully completing this course, students will be able to articulate and apply the theories from linguistic anthropology covered in class to their own lived experiences and new data.

Vakinhoudelijk

Lectures and tutorials are interactive requiring student participation in playful learning activities and embodied performance as practice-based research for understanding key course concepts.

Students will read research and theory in the field of linguistic anthropology and related disciplines to gain theoretical tools and research methods for describing and analyzing language behaviors linked to identity practices. Students will produce preliminary ethnographically-informed research and writing by collecting and examining original data using one or more of the following methods of data collection and analysis: participant observation, sociolinguistic interview, transcription, discourse analysis, survey, and ethnographic writing. Students will report on these analyses in spoken and written English appropriate for the fields of study introduced here. Students will reflect on their learning through the theoretical lenses presented in the course materials.


Aanvullende informatie

This course has priority rules and a waiting list. Your enrolment is guaranteed if you are:
  • a student of the BA English Language and Culture and you are enrolled in the specialisation The Social Life of English.
  • a student TCS enrolled in the hoofdrichting Moderne Talen, kernpakket The Social Life of English.
  • a student in the BA Culturele antropologie en ontwikkelingssociologie.
  • enrolled in the Interculturele communicatie minor.
  • enrolled in the Minor Geesteswetenschappen in de beroepspraktijk (in Dutch).
  • an Exchange students who meet the course’s entry requirements
In all other situations, you will be placed on a waiting list if you enroll in this course. For any remaining slots in the course, lots are drawn among the students on the waiting list. 

This course is part of the 'Social Life of English' specialisation.

Please note: this course runs through the third week in January, so it is not available for outgoing UU students leaving for exchange before the end of block 2.

Early Exit option for international exchange students (5 EC)
Exchange students who are required to return to their home university before January, are allowed to choose an Early Exit option for this course. The Early Exit option means that students can finish the course before Christmas break, receiving 5 EC for the course. Students must make arrangements with the course coordinator at the start of the course.

Werkvormen

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Toelichting

Lectures and tutorials will be interactive requiring participation in games and embodied performances as practice-based research for understanding key course concepts.

Bijdrage

Students will be provided with the opportunity to conduct their research in a group and to write and present about it in a group.

Voorbereiding

Students will be required to study the relevant material before class, participate in class activities and discussions, prepare written expercises, conduct an ethnographic research project and to present it orally and in written form. There will also be an oral exam.

Toetsing

Mondeling tentamen

Verplicht | Weging 15% | ECTS 1,13

Opdracht

Verplicht | Weging 60% | ECTS 4,5

Referaat

Verplicht | Weging 25% | ECTS 1,88

Knowledge of and an ability to reflect on the social, cultural and pedagogical issues raised in the course and to conduct independent research into these issues.

To be announced.

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Ingangseisen

Je moet minimaal 45 punten van het bachelor programma hebben behaald

Voorkennis

Excellent command of academic English in speaking and writing. Basic knowledge of English phonetics and concepts from general linguistics.

Voorkennis kan worden opgedaan met

The sound lab, Prescribing and Describing and Morphosyntax.

Voertalen

  • Engels

Cursusmomenten

Gerelateerde studies

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Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

  • ARTIKELEN
    Journal articles and book chapters available through the university library. Nation, by Terry Pratchett.

Aanbevolen materiaal

Er is geen informatie over de aanbevolen literatuur bekend

Coördinator

dr. D.L. Cole d.l.cole@uu.nl

Docenten

dr. D.L. Cole d.l.cole@uu.nl

Inschrijving

Deze cursus is open voor bijvakkers. Controleer wel of er aanvullende ingangseisen gelden.

Inschrijving
Van maandag 8 juni 2026 tot en met vrijdag 26 juni 2026

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