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Critical Discourse Analysis (2024/2025: Semester 2 – Spring)
Cursusdoel
After completing this course students are able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of key concepts in critical discourse analysis
- Demonstrate understanding of critical source use in different humanities disciplines.
- Find, evaluate, and organise different types of sources.
- Analyze verbal and visual discourses using CDA tools
- Design a small research project which employs a CDA methodology
- Reflect on the role of sources in developing research questions and research approaches.
Relationship between assessment and learning goals:
| Type of assignment | Grade weight | Learning goals |
| Homework assignments (4x) | 40% | 1, 2, 3, 4 |
| Presentation (poster presentation) | 20% | 1, 2, 3, 5 |
| Final assignment: research proposal | 30% | 4, 5, 6 |
| Participation: | 10% | 1-6 |
Vakinhoudelijk
Critical Discourse Analysis is a suitable methodology course for all humanities students. It can also serve to meet the methodology requirement for social science students who wish to finish tracks in law or political sciences. It can be an elective for other students.
This practice-oriented course acquaints students with critical discourse analysis (CDA): a methodology for investigating the relations between language, power and ideology. CDA starts from the insight that language choices carry values, establish power relationships, and that these can be analysed systematically. CDA’s roots lie in multiple fields such as sociolinguistics, philosophy, literary studies, social psychology and anthropology, and it has developed into a methodology which is used in various humanities and social sciences disciplines (f.e. media studies and political sciences).
Rather than a single or explicit method, CDA represents an approach or attitude and provides different methods to critically assess verbal and non-verbal language in use: from texts and images in news articles, (social) media, legal documents to schoolbooks.
The course starts with the theoretical underpinnings and key concepts in CDA, addressing questions such as: what does ‘Critical’ in CDA mean? How do textual and visual representations shape our understanding of reality? How can we analyse the ideological dimensions of particular linguistic and visual choices?
Students practice with the analytical tools CDA offers on various verbal and visual (news and other media) sources. Through regular practical assignments students actively engage with the material and learn to offer feedback on the work of their peers. In the final part of the course students design a CDA-inspired research project on a topic related to their major, select an appropriate CDA method and do a sample analysis.
Format
Week 1–7 Interactive lectures and seminars (Q&A, discussion of assignments)
Week 8 Poster presentations
Week 9-10 Work on research proposal (workshops & individual consultations)
Follow-up modules fulfilling the Humanities methodology requirement of 7,5 ECTS at level 2:
Directly following this 5 ECTS course, students continue in one of the separate 5 week course modules (2,5 ECTS). Separate outlines are available for these course modules:
UCACCMET2M Power, Positionality & Self-Reflexivity (same timeslot). Priority placement for MET25 students.
This practice-oriented course acquaints students with critical discourse analysis (CDA): a methodology for investigating the relations between language, power and ideology. CDA starts from the insight that language choices carry values, establish power relationships, and that these can be analysed systematically. CDA’s roots lie in multiple fields such as sociolinguistics, philosophy, literary studies, social psychology and anthropology, and it has developed into a methodology which is used in various humanities and social sciences disciplines (f.e. media studies and political sciences).
Rather than a single or explicit method, CDA represents an approach or attitude and provides different methods to critically assess verbal and non-verbal language in use: from texts and images in news articles, (social) media, legal documents to schoolbooks.
The course starts with the theoretical underpinnings and key concepts in CDA, addressing questions such as: what does ‘Critical’ in CDA mean? How do textual and visual representations shape our understanding of reality? How can we analyse the ideological dimensions of particular linguistic and visual choices?
Students practice with the analytical tools CDA offers on various verbal and visual (news and other media) sources. Through regular practical assignments students actively engage with the material and learn to offer feedback on the work of their peers. In the final part of the course students design a CDA-inspired research project on a topic related to their major, select an appropriate CDA method and do a sample analysis.
Format
Week 1–7 Interactive lectures and seminars (Q&A, discussion of assignments)
Week 8 Poster presentations
Week 9-10 Work on research proposal (workshops & individual consultations)
Follow-up modules fulfilling the Humanities methodology requirement of 7,5 ECTS at level 2:
Directly following this 5 ECTS course, students continue in one of the separate 5 week course modules (2,5 ECTS). Separate outlines are available for these course modules:
UCACCMET2M Power, Positionality & Self-Reflexivity (same timeslot). Priority placement for MET25 students.
UCACCMET2D Qualitative Research Techniques (usually in a different timeslot)
UCACCMET2L Community Engaged Research in the Caribbean is also a suitable addition but only offered in the Fall semester (outside class hours)
Though these modules follow a course geared towards Humanities majors, they also count towards the SSC methodology requirement.
UCACCMET2L Community Engaged Research in the Caribbean is also a suitable addition but only offered in the Fall semester (outside class hours)
Though these modules follow a course geared towards Humanities majors, they also count towards the SSC methodology requirement.
Werkvormen
UCU course
Toetsing
Participation
Verplicht | Weging 10% | ECTS 0,5
Homework assignments
Verplicht | Weging 40% | ECTS 2
Final assignment: research proposal
Verplicht | Weging 30% | ECTS 1,5
Poster Presentation
Verplicht | Weging 20% | ECTS 1
*midterm FEEDBACK*
Niet verplicht
Ingangseisen en voorkennis
Ingangseisen
Er is geen informatie over verplichte ingangseisen bekend.
Voorkennis
At least 1 Humanities course, or a level 1 in Law or Political Science
Voertalen
- Engels
Competenties
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Debatteren / discoursanalyse
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Interdisciplinariteit
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Kritisch lezen
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Presenteren
Cursusmomenten
Gerelateerde studies
Tentamens
Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus
Verplicht materiaal
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BOEKDavid Machin, Andrea Mayr, How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis. A Multimodal Introduction 2nd ed. Sage, 2023
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BOEKChapters from Schrag, Zachary M. 2021. The Princeton Guide to Historical Research. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
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BOEKChapters from John Flowerdew, John E. Richardson (eds.) The Routledge handbook of Critical Discourse Studies, 2018 (available through UU library as e-book)
Aanbevolen materiaal
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DIVERSEe-reader; online resources
Opmerkingen
Succeeded by a 2,5 EC module (see content) within the same semester. Counts towards HUM or SSC methodology.
Coördinator
| dr. A. Andeweg | A.Andeweg@uu.nl |
Docenten
| dr. A. Andeweg | A.Andeweg@uu.nl |
| dr. N. Korotkova | n.korotkova@uu.nl |
Inschrijving
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