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This seminar introduces students to the use of corpora for the analysis of language and discourse. Through the study of available English language corpora and corpus tools, students will learn key concepts and methods for the understanding of natural language use in communicative contexts. In addition to CL concepts and methods, students will explore how CL methods have been used in areas such as sociolinguistics, stylistics, critical discourse analysis, academic English, forensic linguistics, pragmatics and others. The seminar will also focus on aspects in the selection, compilation, and annotation of corpora; the analysis of written and spoken language; the implementation of qualitative and quantitative analyses; and some types of analysis that can be carried out with corpus techniques

The Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) seminar has been designed to facilitate students’ understanding of content and language integration while learning a foreign/second/additional language. The course is content-driven, thus students have the possibility to select from a range of different “content” depending on what they want to learn while practising and using their English skills. The CLIL approach offers a variety of tools to empower students with reflection upon content, communication, cognition and cultural aspects of learning. For that reason, the 4Cs framework proposed by Coyle (2007) will be used to design lesson plans and activities. Students will have the opportunity to see how CLIL works at the same time they improve their language skills, particularly productive skills such as writing and speaking. CLIL has become an approach widely used around the world to promote intercultural understanding and students’ mobility. Learners in this seminar will be able to evidence how the integration of content and language is key in bilingual and multilingual settings. Finally, it is expected that participants become aware of the potential benefits that the explicit integration of content and language may bring to their own contexts.

This course explores the sociocultural and linguistic concepts of World Englishes (from this point on WE) through the short fiction, plays, and poetry of different English speaking regions of the world. Because WE is a constantly debated and evolving phenomenon, this course will use, as its starting point, the concept of WE put forward by Kachru (1985) and move forward from there.

The Creative Writing in Fiction Seminar is designed to facilitate the creative writing process through thoughtful examination of how writers write and what writers write, and through extensive creative production. Since the first step to writing creatively is knowing where creativity comes from and how to manage such creativity, students will examine various established writers’ philosophies towards writing. In turn, students will begin to foster their own creativity and form productive writing habits. Through extensive reading of creative works in fiction, students will learn to recognize literary and rhetorical devices, evaluate their efficacy, and use said elements in their own creative texts. 

En este curso se trabajan los dos géneros artísticos: textos literarios y su adaptación cinematográfica. Se discuta y analizara de qué manera cada una de las dos formas de arte contribuye a un mejor entendimiento intercultural. Los textos seleccionados y sus adaptaciones cinematográficas tratan temas a través de los cuales los estudiantes pueden conocer mejor la cultura alemana en su diversidad. Los problemas generacionales y la convivencia, descritos en tres obras de manera trágicamente divertida, son temas omnipresentes, vista en situaciones típicamente alemanas. El periodismo sensacionalista, un tema de gran actualidad, también es editado y filmado en la literatura. Los temas Segunda Guerra Mundial y los dos estados alemanes fueron procesados en innumerables obras artísticas y siguen muy actuales. A través de tres obras abordamos estas épocas extraordinariamente formativas de Alemania.

El curso de Español Lengua Extranjera nivel C1, diseñado a partir de los lineamientos propuestos porel Marco Común Europeo de Referencia para las Lenguas (MCER), busca ampliar y enriquecer las competencias comunicativas e interculturales que los estudiantes extranjeros de la Universidad de los Andes necesitan para afrontar los retos y exigencias de la vida académica en lengua española. Así mismo, este curso propone a los estudiantes elementos y herramientas para ayudarles a explorar, comprender e interpretar el contexto socio cultural colombiano actual, estimulando el desarrollo de su autonomía y pensamiento crítico.

• Plantear un problema, desarrollar una pregunta y exponer un objeto de investigación pertinente en el campo de los Estudios Culturales.
• Hacer una lectura crítica de textos pertinentes y desarrollar una capacidad de argumentación rigurosa. Definir una metodología y una perspectiva teórica claras. Recolectar y procesar información y datos acordes con los Estudios Culturales y a los métodos adecuados a éstos.
• Llevar a cabo una reflexión analítico-crítica sobre la información y datos seleccionados, mediante una confrontación con bibliografía de referencia especializada.

• Identifique un tema propio de la lengua y/o contexto cultural de referencia.
• Lea, entienda y se apropie de los conceptos centrales de materiales en la segunda lengua.
• Redacte un texto de tipo ensayístico o un artículo formal académico en el idioma de referencia.