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PHD-TR 903 Text and Interpretation

PHD-TR 903 Text and Interpretation

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  • 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.

Women reading a book
Woman reading a book

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, Campus Stavanger. The course is hybrid.

Teaching and compulsory activities

The course is offered as an intensive course week with with 3 days of lectures, seminars and workshops. Students are required to submit both pre-coursework and post-coursework.

Course plan

Assessment

Submission of post-course work: essay, 3000 words (+/- 10%)

Reading list

PHD-TR 903 Texts and Interpretation [2023-V]

PHD-TR 903 Texts and Interpretation [2024-S]

Facts and costs

Credits

5 ECTS credits

Application date

15. January 2024

Campus

Stavanger

Course type

Session-based teaching

Price

This course is free

Admission requirements

  • 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 who can document that they are admitted to a PhD programme equivalent to VID’s PhD programme in Theology and Religion. PhD students from other institutions than VID must file their application by pressing the orange button at the bottom of the page. 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

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Christine Myrdal Lukash

Do you have questions?

Christine Myrdal Lukash
Stavanger
+47 51 51 62 42
christine.lukash@vid.no

Tina Dykesteen Nilsen

Do you have questions?

Tina Dykesteen Nilsen
Stavanger
+47 950 90 270
tina.nilsen@vid.no

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