Second-year of study M.A. supplementary seminars (2MA SUP) for winter term 2024–2025 (Full-time programmes)

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What is this list?

This is a list of supplementary seminars we intend to launch in the winter term (October–February) in our full-time M.A. programme in English philology (Filologia angielska) whose second year of study is the academic year 2024–2025. This list is intended for:

  1. Students at the Faculty of English who are about to enter the second year of their full-time M.A. programme: this is your reference point before your enrolment into supplementary seminars;
  2. Candidates for our full-time programmes: this list gives you a snapshot of what supplementary seminars were on offer for the study cycle that started in 2023.

How to navigate the list?

The list is sorted by name of the teacher. The format is as follows: the title of the supplementary seminar, the name of the teacher, and the description of the supplementary seminar.

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prof. UAM dr hab. Janusz Kaźmierczak

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prof. UAM dr hab. Elżbieta Wąsik

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Fake News Then And Today: Historical News Discourse

prof. UAM dr hab. Matylda Włodarczyk

The supplementary seminar focuses on the developing discourse and conventions of the printed media since the beginnings of periodical press in the 17th century. News production and dissemination is viewed in a transnational perspective, while the approaches discussed include historical (socio)pragmatics, (corpus-assisted) discourse analysis, content analysis and stylistics. The data to be analysed in the seminar covers a broad array of themes, including political, cultural, social, foreign affairs and conflicts, health and medicine, law, fashion, leisure, advertising and sports. Historical news discourse is presented through the lense of language and discourse devices designed to create trustworthiness that is often achieved through manipulation, distortion of facts, misinformation and fakes. Moreover, the seminar aims to develop an understanding of the impact of technologies of communication on discourse domains.

Students will be responsible for the reading assigned for classes and will be evaluated on the basis of in-class activities, as well as oral and written assignments. Following the introductory part of the course, the students will be asked to prepare individual (or group) presentations on a selected topic in the field.