Research seminar in Spanish and Hispano-American languages and literatures II

Duration

15h Th, 30h SEM

Number of credits

Lecturer

Vanessa Casanova Romero, Alvaro Ceballos Viro, Kristine Vanden Berghe

Coordinator

Kristine Vanden Berghe

Language(s) of instruction

Spanish language

Organisation and examination

All year long

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

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Learning outcomes of the learning unit

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Prerequisite knowledge and skills

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Planned learning activities and teaching methods

In addition to pursuing an individual seminar work, students will take part in the following types of learning activities:

[1] Sessions about general topics related to conducting research, taught in French, for all students taking a research seminar course irrespective of the language chosen.   

(a) General sessions:

1)     Open science

2)     Research integrity

3)     The process of publishing scientific work (submission, peer-review, revision)

4)     General introduction to research in literary studies, with a focus on literary studies in the digital age

5)     General introduction to qualitative and quantitative research methods in linguistics

6)     Disseminating science to the general public

Students will have to take part in three sessions in M1 and in the other three in M2.

(b) Hands-on sessions, preparing students for the student symposium (see [2]):

1)     Abstract writing

2)     Designing visual aids (such as PowerPoint slide shows) for a presentation

3)     Oral presentation: finding and using your voice

Students will have to take part in all three hands-on sessions in M1, as well as to the first two in M2. In M1, students can come unprepared, but in M2 they have prepare an abstract for the first session and a PowerPoint presentation for the second, which will be discussed and evaluated during the respective sessions.

[2] Students from all languages and disciplines will have to present their research project at a student symposium, to which all staff and BA3 students of the Modern languages department will be invited as well.

Students will have to prepare an abstract in French and in the foreign language studied, which will be handed out to the audience, and will get 10 minutes to present their research, using visual aids. They can choose to present in French or in the foreign language studied. If they do not present in French, they should prepare the visual aids in French so as to help the audience understand their talk. After each talk, there will be a 5-minute Q&A. 

The student symposium will be organized before the May-June exam session so students can incorporate the feedback they received into their research paper.

Students will have to take part in three sessions in M1 and in the other three in M2.

(b) Hands-on sessions, preparing students for the student symposium (see [2]):

• Abstract writing
• Designing visual aids (such as PowerPoint slide shows) for a presentation
• Oral presentation: finding and using your voice

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face course


Further information:

In presence teaching.

The general sessions organized in the first term (see 1a above) may be taught in hybrid fashion so as to enable students who are on an Erasmus stay abroad to take part remotely. 

All the other sessions will be taught face-to-face.

Course materials and recommended or required readings

Platform(s) used for course materials:
- eCampus


Further information:

Platform(s) used for course materials:
- eCampus


Further information:

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Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam AND oral exam

Written work / report

Continuous assessment

Out-of-session test(s)


Further information:

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

oral exam

The collective transversal programme is worth 2 credits, i.e. 20% of the overall course grade. The remaining 8 credits (80%) will be awarded on the basis of the students' active participation in the language-specific seminar as well as their course paper. Both components will be evaluated by the teacher of the language-specific seminar.  


Written work / report

Continuous assessment

Out-of-session test(s)


Further information:

Additional information:

In addition to the oral presentations (see above), a brief report on individual research must be submitted on the first day of the June session.

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Module taught in Spanish.

While the collective transversal programme was still optional last year, this year it has become obligatory and accounts for 20% of the overall course grade.

Contacts

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Association of one or more MOOCs

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