Discourses and Practices in the EU (e-learning)

Recommended Prerequisites

General knowledge of English.

Teaching Methods

The distance learning format provides an innovative teaching/learning tool, building on new technologies that allow self-learning methodologies. Combined with problem-based approaches and oriented guidance through the provision of topics for discussion, these blended methodologies contribute to skills development related to autonomy, time management and critical assessment. Students have access to an online platform where all resources supporting the course are uploaded and available. They also have access to an online discussion forum, allowing a more integrated dialogue between all students.

Learning Outcomes

General objective:

- Grounded knowledge on discourses and practices in the EU, linking them to the use of new technologies in the construction of knowledge spaces.

Specific objectives and skills:

- Understand and apply the various perspectives on processes of narrative-building;

- Analyse dynamics associated to the production/construction of discourses and to practices that highlight critical areas in EU’s actuation;

- Understand and analyze case studies on EU discourse and EU practice;

- Knowledge of new technologies and their impact in narrative-building, with applied cases related to the EU.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

. Discursive meaning and construction of meaning

2. Knowledge practices

3. The EU's discourse: unpacking the process of narrative-building

4. Analysis of case studies of EU discourse

5. EU practices: defining spaces for intervention?

6. Analysis of case studies of EU practice

7. Discourses, practices and the use of new technologies: challenges and opportunities.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Periodic or by final exam as given in the course information: 100.0%

Bibliography

BLOOR, Meriel; BLOOR, Thomas (2013) The Practice of Critical Discourse Analysis: an Introduction, London, Routledge.

FLOTTUM, Kjersti (2010) EU discourse: Polyphony and unclearness, Journal of Pragmatics, 42, 4, 990-999.

KEATING, Maria Clara (2019) Coloniality of knowledge, Ch'ixinakax utxiwa, and intercultural translation. The (im)pertinence of language and discourse studies, Language, Culture and Society, 1, 1, 141-146.

O’KEEFFE, A. (2011) ‘Media and Discourse Analysis, in GEE, J. & HANDFORD, M. (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis, London, Routledge, 441-454.

SCHMIDT Vivien A. & RADAELLI, Claudio M. (2004) Policy Change and Discourse in Europe: Conceptual and Methodological Issues, West European Politics, 27, 2, 183-210.

VAN LEEUWEN, Theo (2008) Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis, Oxford: Oxford University Press.