General provisions

The course is given as a freestanding course.

Entry requirements

A Bachelor's degree with Turkic languages as the main field of study, including an independent project worth at least 15 credits.

Learning outcomes

To earn the grade Pass, on completion of the course students must at least be able to:

- find, collect, read and analyse this literature;

- write summaries of this literature.

Content

The course covers different methods of working with scientific literature as preparation for a degree project in the Master's (120 credit) programme in Turkic languages. The course includes reading, interpretation and translation of scientific literature and composing oral and written summaries of the contents of the texts.

Instruction

The instruction consists of lectures, exercises and assessment. Students' own learning activities are crucial for their work during the course.

Assessment

The course has two assessment components:

1. continuous oral and written assignments;

2. take-home examination.

Information on the content and format of the continuous oral and written assignments, the date of completion/submission and re-examination is given at the start of the course.

For the grade Pass, Pass is required in all components. For the grade Pass with distinction, Pass with distinction is furthermore required in component 2.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. Special circumstances can include notification of special educational support from the university disability coordinator.