PHD-TR 903 Text and Interpretation
PHD-TR 903 Text and Interpretation
The course gives PhD students working with different types of texts a thorough introduction to relevant scholarly approaches to reading and interpretation of texts.
The course gives PhD students working with different types of texts a thorough introduction to relevant scholarly approaches to reading and interpretation of texts.
The course addresses potentials and challenges of reading and interpreting texts as historical artefacts and from contemporary experiences and concerns. There will be a particular focus on intercultural, interreligious and emancipatory interpretative perspectives.
The course has the following main focus areas:
- Text theory: what is a text, different types of texts
- Different approaches to text analysis
- Hermeneutical theory: classical hermeneutics, critical hermeneutics/hermeneutics of suspicion, intercultural and interreligious hermeneutics
- Postcolonial theory
Time and place
12-14 February 2024, Campus Stavanger
Teaching and compulsory activities
The course is offered as an intensive course week with with 3 days of asynchronic lectures, synchronic seminars and workshopas. Students are required to submit both pre-coursework and post-coursework.
Assessment
Submission of post-course work: essay, 3000 words (+/- 10%)
Fakta og priser
Type enkeltemne
SamlingsbasertPris
This course is free
Opptakskrav
- PhD students who are enrolled in one of VID’s PhD programmes. PhD students from VID register for the course in Studentweb and have their own deadline for registration. PhD students from VID receive notification from their PhD centre when the course opens for registration.
- PhD students from other institutions. PhD students from other institutions than VID must file their application by pressing the orange button at the bottom of the page.
- PhD students from other institutions must submit written documentation of their enrollment together with the application. External applicants will receive notification about whether they are admitted to the course after the application deadline has passed.
If you have questions about the academic content of the course, please contact course responsibles Tina Dykesteen Nilsen, tina.nilsen@vid.no or Zorodzai Dube, zordub@vid.no If you have questions about admission to the course, please contact Christine Myrdal Lukash, christine.lukash@vid.no
