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| General
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a) Familiarise the students with the use of basic computer tools available for research, professional and pedagogical purposes related with English studies. b) Give the students a practical approach to some of the key concepts introduced in the core courses of the master and help them conduct independent research. c) Improve the students' skills in the use of Information Technology in a scholarly environment and, in particular, in assessing the usefulness and reliability of existing sources and in the preparation and presentation of academic genres using the computer medium. |
| Course Contents: |
Introduction to some of the most relevant concepts, computer tools and applications used in an academic and professional environment by means of lectures, analyses of models and lab-based practical work. 1. Class Activities (50 hours = 2,00 ECTS): a) Theory (25 hours = 1,00 ECTS): Lectures will introduce students to computing concepts and computer applications for the humanities. (five hours per topic on average). b) Workshops (25 hours = 1,00 ECTS): Lab-based work will consolidate computing skills, and provide an understanding of how computers work and are applied to a variety of practical problems. 1. BSCW and Moodle 2. Basic Web editors (Front Page, HoTMetaL) and Search Engines (Google Scholar) 3. Audacity 4. WordSmith Tools 5. WMM and Image/Video editing Tools 2. Individual Work (40 hours =1,60 ECTS): Revision of the concepts explained in the theory sessions and individual work with the applications introduced in the practical sessions. Reading and comprehension of the texts recommended in the bibliography. 3. Workshops (40 hours =1,60 ECTS): Lab-based sessions are included to familiarise students with the applications specified in the syllabus and use them to complete a series of guided assignments. 4. Group Work (57,5 hours = 2,30 ECTS): Presentation of assignments and final task using the main applications available for academic and professional purposes. During the normal course of the program, students will create a portfolio that documents their grasp of key concepts. Portfolios will consist of assignments, projects, or other reports that are completed using different media tools as required parts of the course. [Subir al inicio de la página ] |
| Assessment: |
a) Assessment criteria: By the end of the course, the students should prove their ability to use computers effectively in order to meet the demands of their future academic and professional careers. b) Requirements: In the course of the semester a series of short practical assignments will be proposed to the students in order to monitor their progress. A final oral presentation of a project on one of the topics / tools included in the syllabus must be carried out singly or in pairs using the computer medium (PowerPoint presentation, set of web pages, etc). During the course of the program, students will create a portfolio with the assignments completed which will be used for assessing their work. c) Additional criteria: Tutorials, both individual and in group, as well as participation in laboratory sessions, will be used to help the students and also to assess the process of learning. |
| Syllabus: |
1. Web authoring: Introduction to Web editors. Online Writing Labs. Citation and Web style Guides. Netiquette. Creating graphics and visual aids. Images and clip art. 2. Internet as a source of information: Introduction to Literary and Linguistic resources on the web. Search Engines. Searchable collections of electronic texts. Information storage and retrieval. 3. Working with new media: Digital texts, sound and images. Locating, retrieving and editing or creating new media. Publishing on the web. Blogs. Podcasting. 4. Corpus Linguistics & Statistics: Tools for text analysis. The role of language corpora. Word class tagging. Collocations. Lexical databases and electronic dictionaries. Basic concepts in statistics for academic research. 5. Hypertexts: New ways of organizing knowledge Electronic scholarly editions. Hyperfiction. |
| Webliography: |
See each section of the Syllabus for related Bibliography. General Readings and Links can be found in the "Materials" folder (BSCW Virtual Platform) at: <http://bscw.unizar.es> |
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| Creación
y Mantenimiento: Ramón Plo Alastrué
Dpto. Filología Inglesa y Alemana. |
| Última actualización: September 2009 |
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