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LING-487 MLC Proseminar
Spring only
Anna Trester
This course is a professional development course for students in their first year of the MA in Linguistics with a concentration in Language and Communication (MLC). The course is designed to help students select an area of professional interest and to create targeted professional and academic materials for inclusion in their individual professional portfolios.
The class will be a mixture of lecture, discussion, and activity-based interaction, and will be divided into three main parts. We will begin the semester by developing our understanding of professional applications of sociolinguistics through readings and lectures and presentations by guest lecturers who themselves engage with the question of combining sociolinguistic theory and practice. This portion of the class is designed to guide students to the selection of a field of professional interest on which to focus for the remainder of the class. A second major part of the class involves participation in events taking place outside of regular class meetings. These include workshops, activities, and events organized by the MLC program, the SFS Career Development Center, Georgetown’s Career Education Center, as well as individual meetings with the Assistant Director of the Program and Informational Interviews with alums and other professional contacts. The final part of the class will involve presentations by students featuring the discipline – specific research they have prepared to highlight where the skills and training of a linguist fit and are of value in their chosen workplace settings, institutions, and professions.
The final grade for the course will be based on these presentations as well as the professional portfolio, which will be comprised of: Resume / CV, letters of introduction (e-mail version, oral version: your elevator pitch), professional Vision Statement (Teaching, Research Philosophies),
Important Definitions (e.g. linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis), Frameworks / Strategies / Features that exemplify your unique perspective as a linguist (e.g. conversational inference, framing, contextualization cues, face), Annotated Bibliography (research that you are easily able to cite which illustrates your theoretical orientation), and Prepared Questions (for informational interviews, job interviews).
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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