MBH4100 Vitenskapsteori og forskningsmetoder Emneplan

The student must have the following coursework requirements accepted before examination.

• A minimum of 80 % participation in weekly teaching and learning activities is required.
• Attendance is mandatory because of the course’s collaborative and interactive feature, where the students are mutually dependent on each other’s presence and participation in order to complete the course’s work tasks. Participation is also necessary in order to develop and demonstrate the skills that are described under the learning outcome section.

Students who are prevented from meeting the coursework requirements within the fixed deadlines due to illness or other valid and documented reasons, may be given a new deadline. A new deadline is in each case given by the course teacher. 

Coursework requirements are evaluated as accepted/not accepted. Students who submit their coursework requirements within the set deadline, but get evaluated as not accepted, are entitled to a maximum of two new attempts to fulfil the requirements. A new deadline for meeting the coursework requirements is in each individual case given by the teacher.

The final assessment will be an individual, recorded and edited 6-8-minute signed presentation of a topic given by the course instructors. The topic given will require that the students take an in-depth cross-cutting analysis of the themes of this course. The student may choose which signed language they wish to use in this assignment.

A new/postponed exam will be in the same format as the ordinary exam. The presentation may be adjusted to the first new exam. To the second new exam a new presentation must be made.

The students’ rights and obligations are set out in the Regulations Relating to Studies and Examinations at OsloMet. It is the students’ responsibility to register for any new/postponed exams.

All aids are premitted, as long as rules for referencing are complied with.

Grade scale A-F

The presentation will be evaluated by one internal examiner from each of the universities where the students are enrolled. An external programme supervisor is affiliated with the course in accordance with the Guidelines for Appointment and Use of Examiners at OsloMet.

Target Group

Students who are skilled in at least one sign language, and want to develop their sign language abilities, visual communication repertoire and translanguaging skills to communicate across different sign languages. The course is also suitable for students who want to learn about international connections among deaf people in order to engage with these networks for both professional and personal reasons.

Admission

The admission requirement is Higher Education Entrance Qualification. Reference is made to the Regulations relating to Admission to Studies at OsloMet.

Although there are no formal requirements regarding current/personal level of sign language competence and mastery of English, a certain mastery of at least one signed language as well as written English is necessary to participate in course activities and complete the coursework requirements.

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.

Det benyttes intern og ekstern sensor.