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: historical analysis, narrative analysis, discourse analysis
- Hermeneutical theory: classical hermeneutics, critical hermeneutics/hermeneutics of suspicion, intercultural and interreligious hermeneutics
- Postcolonial theory
Time and place
Spring 2021
Teaching and compulsory activities
The course is offered as an intensive course week with with 3 days of lectures and seminars. Students are required to submit both pre-coursework and post-coursework.
Assessment
Submission of post-course work: essay, 3000 words (+/- 10%)
Fakta
Type enkeltemne
SamlingsbasertPris
This course is free
Opptakskrav
- PhD students who are enrolled in one of VID’s PhD programmes
- PhD students from other institutions
- 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 within one week from the applicaiton deadline.
If you have questions about admission to the course, please contact Christine Myrdal Lukash.
