MBIB4230 Information Retrieval Course description

Deleksamen 1: Studentene kan benytte gjeldende lærerplan og inntil 15 sider notater. Sidene må være paginerte.

Deleksamen 2: Alle hjelpemidler tillatt.

The course presupposes knowledge from the bachelor courses BIB3210/BIB3220/BIB3230 or BIB3240/BIB3250/BIB3260.

Det benyttes en gradert karakterskala fra A til E for bestått og F for ikke bestått eksamen.

Through weekly online asynchronous learning sessions (with occasional synchronous student meetings), students will learn about intercultural dialogues among people who use sign languages, the history and existence of international deaf NGOs and the phenomenon of International Sign and how it relates to translanguaging. The students will also learn about the existence of deaf spaces and ongoing rituals of transnational social events among deaf people, the mobility of people and ideas in deaf transnational spaces, and issues of power and privilege in international encounters and transnational rights discourses.

Lectures, tasks and seminars. This includes presentation of a term paper, made individually or in groups, for discussion. Teaching will be in English when there are foreign exchange students present.

The following coursework requirements must have been approved in order for the student to take the exam:

1. Either a report on a laboratory assignment or an essay on one or more of the course subtopics, written either individually or in groups of 2-3 students, to be submitted at the end of the course. Written individually, the essay will have a scope of 15 pages, witten in group the scope will be 20 pages. For a laboratory assignment the scope will be approx. 10 pages written individually, and approx. 12 pages written in a group. The topic of the assignment is chosen in cooperation with a course teacher. The requirement also entails an oral presentation at the end of the course based on a draft. Each student is assigned an opposition of one of the other students' assignments.

All required coursework must be completed and approved by the given deadline in order for the student to take the exam. If one or more coursework requirements have not been approved, the student will be given the opportunity to submit an improved version once by the given deadline.

Individual written assignment; the student shall, within the prescribed time limit deliver an individual written 3 days home assignment of 20000 characters +/- 10 per cent. Font and font size: Arial / Calibri 12pkt. Line spacing: 1.5. The student may choose English or Norwegian as examination language.

The student may choose English or Norwegian as examination language

All examination support materials are permitted. However, sources must be stated in accordance with applicable rules for source references.

Grading scale A-F.

All exam papers are graded by one internal and one external examiner.