Languages, communication and knowledge transfer

Training dates: 6 March to 12 April 2023 - Virtual course: from 6 March to 4 April 2024 - Mobility week at the UAM in Madrid: from 8 to 12 April 2024 Classes will be held on Wednesdays from 10am to 12pm and Thursdays from 9am to 10am, except during the week of mobility in Madrid when classes will be held every day from 9am to 2pm (Monday and Wednesday) and from 9am to 5pm (Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday). The activities included in the course are of two types: face-to-face and non-face-to-face. In terms of ECTS credits, this 3 ECTS course corresponds to 27 hours of theoretical-practical lessons (12 hours in a virtual classroom (Zoom) and 15 hours during a mobility week in Madrid, Spain), 4 hours of seminars during a mobility week, 6 hours of group tutoring (5 hours during a mobility week), 3 hours of assessment activities, 30 hours of non-presential activities dedicated to individual student work and study (18 hours in a virtual classroom, 12 hours during a mobility week) and 5 hours of linguistic-cultural activities (during a mobility week). In total, the course comprises 75 hours divided between the various training activities. The following aspects of the programme will be taught during the virtual sessions: 1. Contemporary French Semantics and Pragmatics: Theory and Practice 1.1 Assumptions and characteristics 1.2 Currents 2. The theoretical tools of French semantics 2.1 Argumentation in language The "Languages, Communication and Knowledge Transfer" programme consists of a university course that brings together society, culture, multilingualism, communication, and digital tools in order to create common European university spaces where knowledge transfer is present, particularly in the context of the French language and Francophone cultures.

Application Deadline

Virtual Part starting date 2024-03-06

Virtual Part closing date 2024-04-04

Total student workload 75

Specific field of studies Linguistics, Languages, Communication, Digital humanities

Pre-requisite for selection CV Motivation Letter Level of English (According to CEFR)

Academic pre-requisites for applicants The sessions will be taught in French and English. A level in French and English is required to enable the student to follow the training and read the reference bibliography. Knowledge of Spanish will be desirable in order to be able to interact with the members of the academic community of the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) and the citizens of the city of Madrid (services, transport, accommodation, restaurants, etc.).

Physical Part starting date 2024-04-08

Physical Part Description The sessions of the physical component of the programme will be divided into courses, seminars, groups tutoring and individual study. The following aspects of the programme will be taught during the physical sessions: 2.2 Enunciative polyphony in language. 3. Corpus and communicative knowledge transfer 3.1 Corpus, corpus managers and textual analysis software 3.2 Automatic processing of argumentation and enunciative polyphony in language The physical week will culminate with an evaluation test and a final assessment of the course. Afterwards, we will have a socio-linguistic-communicative immersion in the city of Madrid and the Reina Sofía Museum.

Physical Part closing date 2024-04-12

Language level required B2

Field of studies related to the course Social Science and Humanities

Course location Cantoblanco Campus, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Course language English French