Communicating Beyond Academia
Course code
KOI7063.FK
old course code
Course title in Estonian
Suhtlemine väljaspool akadeemilist keskkonda
Course title in English
Communicating Beyond Academia
ECTS credits
3.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
The course objectives are that students will develop ways to use their research and communication skills to make academic knowledge available to and interesting for audiences outside of academia.
Brief description of the course
In this course, we approach communication between academic scholars and the wider public as a form of intercultural communication. The learning sessions will be structured as a series of mini workshops covering community based research, practice as research, institutional ethnography, creativity, genre, and mediatization. We will collaboratively explore strategies for identifying common ground between stakeholders with different priorities and values and for practicing creativity when responding to research questions and sharing research results.
For the final assignment, students will be invited to develop small communication and marketing projects directly relevant to stakeholders at each of the home universities participating in EMICC. Students may also propose (collaborative) communication projects to connect other academic and non-academic stakeholders. These assignments will be due at the end of the program in December, to give students time to work on their materials in the context of subsequent courses during the Eurocampus program.
For the final assignment, students will be invited to develop small communication and marketing projects directly relevant to stakeholders at each of the home universities participating in EMICC. Students may also propose (collaborative) communication projects to connect other academic and non-academic stakeholders. These assignments will be due at the end of the program in December, to give students time to work on their materials in the context of subsequent courses during the Eurocampus program.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- has learned strategies for creative text production;
- is able to identify the purposes, audiences, and forms of academic texts, and translate these purposes into other forms for different audiences;
- will be able to reflect on power and positionality in the history and practice of academic research and understand their implications for knowledge sharing beyond the academy.
- has learned strategies for creative text production;
- is able to identify the purposes, audiences, and forms of academic texts, and translate these purposes into other forms for different audiences;
- will be able to reflect on power and positionality in the history and practice of academic research and understand their implications for knowledge sharing beyond the academy.
Teacher
Deborah L. Cole
Additional information
Examination:
For their final project, students will conduct their own critical discourse study of language a/o education policies, applying the theories they’ve learned and making recommendations for policy revisions.
For their final project, students will conduct their own critical discourse study of language a/o education policies, applying the theories they’ve learned and making recommendations for policy revisions.