CIVIS announces the opening of the registration for the CIVIS course “Language contact, multilingualism and minorities in the Romance-speaking world”. This short term virtual mobility course will be running for 10 weeks, from 17 January to 21 March. The course involves a weekly study of 20 hours, including preparation (readings before each lesson), classes and a workshop. The course is organised in lectures, seminars and students’ presentations. For the presentations, students will organise a workshop in collaboration with the teachers.
This short term virtual mobility course invites students to explore language contact in multilingual and language minority settings. It will address the following main topics:
- Language contact, multilingualism and minorities in settings in the Romance-speaking world
- Theories and methods applicable to the study of multilingual environments
This short term virtual mobility course is open to Master’s students at the nine CIVIS member universities, with an advanced level and/or a Bachelor’s degree in Languages, Linguistics, History, Philosophy or a related program. A B2 level of English is required. Lectures, students’ presentations and discussions will be in English, but readings and group discussions may be in Romance languages.
Applicants should send their CV and a cover letter (50-100 words) by 15 November 2021 to CIVIS-Romance@su.se. In their cover letter, applicants should explain the reason why they want to participate in this particular course as well as their contribution to the course. Selected students will be notified on 13 December 2021.
Assessment
Students are expected to actively participate and contribute to the discussions during classes. To achieve the learning objectives, students will, among other things, discuss how languages change in multilingual settings and how different groups’ language practices may be affected by, for example, ideologies and language policy.
The assessment will be based on 3 assignments.
- Assignment 1: a short written and oral assignment (1 page).
- Assignment 2: oral presentation (15 min) of a proposal for a field study with the aim of exploring a language contact setting or language policies in a context where Romance languages are spoken.
- Assignment 3: the written proposal for the same field study (3000-4000 words).
The oral presentations will be in English, but the written assignments can be written in one of the following languages: English, French, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish.
More details about the intensive CIVIS Course “Language contact, multilingualism and minorities in the Romance-speaking world” are available on the CIVIS webpage here.
Also, for more information, please contact Laura Álvarez López at laura.alvarez@su.se.
CIVIS is a European Civic University formed by the alliance of nine leading research higher education institutions across Europe: Aix-Marseille Université, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Universitatea din București, Université libre de Bruxelles, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Sapienza Università di Roma, Stockholm University, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and University of Glasgow. It brings together a community of more than 450,000 students and 65,000 staff members including 30,000 academics and researchers.
