KAU Doctoral Courses is a database with doctoral courses at Karlstad University.
Secondary menu
You are here
Språkvetenskapliga avhandlingar- aktuell forskning och publiceringsformer / Dissertations in Linguistics - current research and forms of publication
Course info
Course code:
6ENG043
Language(s):
English
Subject:
English
Semester(s):
Autumn 2021
Points:
4,5 hp
Person responsible:
Erica Sandlund
Contact email:
In this course, doctoral dissertations in English Linguistics and closely related disciplines are selected, reviewed, discussed, and evaluated. Doctoral students will read and critically evaluate three dissertations in terms of the dissertation research projects’ topics, methods, theory, analysis, findings, and form of presentation. Dissertations are selected in consultation with the course convener, on the basis of their relevance for the field, doctoral students’ research interests, format (compilation and monograph), research contexts (Sweden and international), and diversity in terms of methodology and data. The selection also aims at broadening as well as deepening the student’s orientation in the linguistic discipline. The course runs in the form of discussion seminars with individual written and oral assignments to be completed.
Course goals
Upon completion of the course, doctoral students should be able to
• critically review and assess recent research presented in selected doctoral dissertations in English Linguistics and closely related disciplines on the basis of form, theories and methods, findings, and structure of presentation,
• identify and account for the differences between monograph dissertations and article compilation dissertations, and demonstrate an ability to evaluate the appropriateness of the dissertation format for different types of studies, and
• summarize, evaluate, and present the central tenets of a doctoral dissertation research project in linguistics.
Prerequisites
Enrollment in a PhD program in English Linguistics, or the equivalent
Examination
Assessment takes the form of oral presentations, active participation in discussions, and individual written hand-in assignments.
Admission rules
Each syllabus states target group and eligibility, which should be based on the prerequisites necessary to understand and process the content of the course. Syllabi and scheduled course meetings are posted on the course portal web page for the doctoral level, which is also open to the public.
Doctoral students who wish to take a course should sign up according to instructions on the course portal.
Admitted students must meet the requirements stated in the syllabus. If there are more prospective students than the teaching capacity allows, priority is given to students as follows:
- If the course is not included in the obligation stated in item 2 below, admission is primarily granted to eligible students at the department offering the course. If the course is offered jointly by several departments at Karlstad university, priority is given, as agreed, by the departments concerned. If the course is commissioned by the Faculty, all students at the Faculty belong to the prioritised group. In the case of cross-faculty courses, all students at Karlstad University belong to the prioritised group. If order of admission must be made in the prioritised group, the student who first signed up according to the requirement above, is given priority.
- If the course is part of a commitment to a national or international graduate school, network or equivalent, priority is given to their participants.
- If there is an agreement on exchange with a subject, department or faculty at another HEI, eligible students from such institutions have second priority
- Other eligible students at Karlstad University have third priority.
- Other eligible students at other HEIs have fourth priority.
The appointed course convener decides on admission of students to a doctor level course in accordance with the order of priority stated above.
Upon completion of the course, the course convener issues a course certificate with a proposed grade to the students.
Tillträdesregler
I kursplan anges målgrupp och behörighet. Behörighet ska utgå från de förkunskaper som behövs för att tillgodogöra sig kursens innehåll.
Kursplaner och planerade kurstillfällen görs tillgängliga på en webbsida: kurstorg för forskarnivå, som även görs tillgänglig externt.
Forskarstuderande som önskar följa en kurs ska anmäla detta enligt anvisning på kurstorget.
Studerande som ges tillträde ska uppfylla de behörighetskrav som anges i kursplanen. Om fler önskar följa kursen än vad undervisningskapaciteten tillåter görs prioritering enligt nedan.
- Om inte kursen ingår i ett åtagande enligt punkt 2 nedan ges tillträde i första hand till behöriga studerande vid den institution som anordnar kursen. I det fall kursen anordnas gemensamt av flera institutioner vid Karlstads universitet ges tillträde i första hand på det sätt som berörda institutioner kommit överens om. I det fall kursen är beställd av fakultet ingår alla studerande vid fakulteten i den grupp som ges tillträde i första hand. För kurser som anordnas gemensamt av fakulteterna gäller det alla studerande vid Karlstads universitet. Om prioritering behöver göras inom den grupp som ges tillträde i första hand ges den som först anmält sig enligt ovan företräde.
- Om anordnade av en kurs ingår i ett åtagande gentemot nationell eller internationell forskarskola, nätverk eller motsvarande ges dock deltagare därifrån tillträde i första hand.
- I det fall det finns överenskommelse om utbyte med ämne, institution eller fakultet vid annat lärosäte ges behöriga studerande därifrån tillträde i andra hand.
- I tredje hand ges tillträde till övriga behöriga studerande vid Karlstads universitet.
- I fjärde hand ges tillträde till övriga behöriga studerande vid andra lärosäten.
Den som institutionen utsett som kursansvarig beslutar om vilka som får delta i en kurs på forskarnivå, i enlighet med prioritetsordningen ovan.
Efter genomförd kurs och prov lämnar kursansvarig ett intyg med förslag på betyg till kursdeltagarna.