Aside from transferable skills in data analysis, you will learn to work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary teams and provide detailed critical reports of their findings.
Knowledge
You will:
- have enhanced critical awareness of how the discourse around shared values is often based on a fragile understanding of certain concepts
- have a thorough understanding of the importance of conceptual analysis for the debate on democracy and sustainability
- develop a nuanced understanding of a constellation of concepts associated with democracy and sustainability
- develop an ability to critique taken-for-granted, singular definitions of key concepts that do not attend to historical, disciplinary, and cultural diversity
- be able to elaborate informed arguments in debates relating to a range of key concepts, including sustainability and democracy
- what corpora are and how they can be employed for conceptual analysis
- how to generate, sort and analyse concordances to reveal various discursive patterns that offer an insight into the use and meanings of a specific concept
- how to use various visualization tools to reveal strong patterns and enhance the analysis of very large corpora
- how to access and make sense of metadata on the provenance of a particular pattern to understand who uses it and in what context.
Skills
You can:
- appreciate and be able to think through the historical, disciplinary and cultural contingency of various definitions of key concepts that underpin social and political practices
- explain and debate the meanings of key concepts from different perspectives and points of view
- develop a heightened sense of civic engagement and participate meaningfully in the various debates taking place in our democratic societies
- contribute to group discussion in a respectful and productive manner
- prepare and deliver a coherent and clear presentation to a group of peers and experts, to a high standard and in good timing
- identify patterns in a variety of discourses and genres and explain what they reveal about the semantic and affective properties of specific concepts in specific contexts
- use corpus analysis tools effectively to analyse textual data and key concepts that underpin the sustainability agenda
- use corpus analysis tools effectively to analyse textual data and key concepts that underpin numerous debates about democracy and other key European values
- address complex questions based on collective, live analysis of authentic data drawn from very large corpora in a datathon setting.
General competence
You will:
- acknowledge the contingency of key concepts in discussing common values
- have the necessary skills, knowledge, tools, values and attitudes required to contribute to a democratic and sustainable future
- be able to promote and take part in informed discussion of common values and how they shape our future
- learn how to work in interdisciplinary teams and constructively collaborate across disciplines on topics pertaining to democracy and sustainability.
- identify patterns in a variety of discourses and genres and explain what they reveal about the semantic and affective properties of specific concepts in specific contexts
- use corpus analysis tools effectively to analyse textual data and key concepts that underpin numerous debates about democracy and other key European values
- address complex questions based on collective, live analysis of authentic data drawn from very large corpora in a datathon setting
- carry out research in interdisciplinary teams
- present the findings of textual analysis clearly to peers and experts
- develop a more informed and critically aware use of language.