BA Proseminar - Swedish 3200-L3-PSLS

The course aims to introduce students to a variety of research methods commonly used in the field of linguistics and translatology. This will be done by both studying the theory underlying specific methods or approaches to data collection and analysis as well as by looking at how each method or approach has been applied in a variety of research situations. Through reading and studying a broad range of research papers, students will be better equipped to understand research in the field, in general, as well as how to set up and carry out their own studies for their BA research.
During the course, given linguistics and translatological issues are discussed and characteristics of academic language and formal register. The participants are also expected to prepare one presentation of their BA projects.
Credit requirements include: regular attendance, active participation in classes, fulfilling background reading assignments, timely submission of the first parts of the BA paper (in the winter term: an outline and one chapter of the BA thesis), preparing one oral presentation in the winter term.
Students’ Course Workload:
Total ECTS points = 6 ECTS
- In-class activities: 30h = 1 ECTS
Self-study: 120h = 5 ECTS
- Classroom activities and preparation for tasks = 30h
- presentation: 20h
- exercises in writing academic texts in Swedish: 20h
- reading scientific texts in a foreign language: 20h
- work on the BA thesis: 30h

The course aims to introduce students to a variety of research methods commonly used in the field of linguistics and translatology. This will be done by both studying the theory underlying specific methods or approaches to data collection and analysis as well as by looking at how each method or approach has been applied in a variety of research situations. Through reading and studying a broad range of research papers, students will be better equipped to understand research in the field, in general, as well as how to set up and carry out their own studies for their BA research.
During the course, given linguistics and translatological issues are discussed and characteristics of academic language and formal register. The participants are also expected to prepare one presentation of their BA projects.
Credit requirements include: regular attendance, active participation in classes, fulfilling background reading assignments, timely submission of the first parts of the BA paper (in the winter term: an outline and one chapter of the BA thesis), preparing one oral presentation in the winter term.
Students’ Course Workload:
Total ECTS points = 6 ECTS
- In-class activities: 30h = 1 ECTS
Self-study: 120h = 5 ECTS
- Classroom activities and preparation for tasks = 30h
- presentation: 20h
- exercises in writing academic texts in Swedish: 20h
- reading scientific texts in a foreign language: 20h
- work on the BA thesis: 30h

Strömquist, Siv, 2010: Uppsatshandboken. Råd och regler för utformningen av examensarbeten och vetenskapliga uppsatser. 3 uppl. Uppsala: Hallgren & Fallgren.
Schött, Kristina et al., 2007: Studentens skrivhandbok. Stockholm: Liber.
Lagerholm, Per. 2005: Språkvetenskapliga uppsatser. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
A website on similar topics: www.uppsatsguiden.se.

Strömquist, Siv, 2010: Uppsatshandboken. Råd och regler för utformningen av examensarbeten och vetenskapliga uppsatser. 3 uppl. Uppsala: Hallgren & Fallgren.
Schött, Kristina et al., 2007: Studentens skrivhandbok. Stockholm: Liber.
Lagerholm, Per. 2005: Språkvetenskapliga uppsatser. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
A website on similar topics: www.uppsatsguiden.se.

Topics: linguistics; especially Swedish grammar, discourse analysis, CDA, ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistics; interlinguistics