Upon completing this course, students will be familar with - existing (linguistic) theories and approaches to language, discourse, gender and sexuality- current theoretical and empirical foci in this field- various linguistic methods to collect data and to analyze texts and discourses on gender, sexuality and diversityStudents will also be more critically aware of how language and discourse function as powerful agents in the context of people's gendered and sexual identities. Also, students will be more critically aware of how various aspects of our identity, such as gender and sexuality, but also age, social background, intersect.

theoretical inputcritical reading and discussion of textsgroup research projects and presentation of results

- history of linguistic research on gender and sexuality, queer linguistics - focus on social constructivist and post-feminist approaches to doing gender and sexuality- gender & sexuality across various contexts such as academia, profession, sport, media - linguistic methods to data collection and  (critical) data analysis ... 

Particularly important is students' willingness to critically engage with the topics presentedEqually important is an openness and acceptance to engage with non-essentialistic ideas and concepts of gender and sexuality AND a respectul dealing with non-binary and gender-fluid students 

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- oral (group) presentation 

- presentation topics will be discussed during the first sessions of the seminar

- the presentation must be linguistically based (use adequate terminology and concepts correctly)- the presentation must contain adequate material / examples, which must be analyzed with the help of the appropriate linguistic concepts - the presentation must be presented according to the discussed presentation standards (to be discussed in class)