Høst 2012

HIF-3081 Fieldwork and Linguistic Description - 10 stp

The course is administrated by

Institutt for språkvitenskap

Type of course

This course may be taken as a singular course.

Course overlap

LIN-3081 Field Linguistics 10 stp

Course contents

This course deals with methods in fieldwork as well as related ethical dimensions. The course includes comprehensive fieldwork (in the classroom) with a language informant, and is designed to enable students to gather and analyse data from a non-Indo-European language independently and efficiently.

Admission requirements

This course requires a bachelors degree in language and literature, or equivalent.

Objective of the course

Students should be able to show a thorough knowledge of the materials described in the course description, as well as the ability to gather and analyse language data efficiently.

Language of instruction

Language of instruction and examination English

Teaching methods

Lectures, exercises, seminars, project work.

All literature will be in English.

Assessment

Coursework requirements:

Students are required to hand in 6 homework assignments.

Assessment method:

Term paper (7000 words)

Performance in the course will be assessed with the grades A-F.