Postgraduate Course: Methods in Dialectology (LASC11133)

Course Outline
School	School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	An introduction to the aims, methods and applications of dialectology in the British Isles (including how and why the dialects of English and Scots have changed).
Course description	This course is intended as a practical introduction to the aims, methods and results of dialectological work in the British Isles. Since the course is partly assessed through a coursework project that involves collection and analysis of data, some of the teaching will involve training in how to become a dialectologist, while the more theoretical parts of the course will involve furthering your understanding of how certain aspects of dialectology may be said to represent the 'meeting point' of diachronic linguistics, sociolinguistics and geolinguistics.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 2
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 27, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 167 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	A single 4000 word project (100%)
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: understand key terms and concepts in dialectology understand the aims of dialectologists in the British Isles over the last century and a half understand the methods of dialectologists in the British Isles over the last century and a half and how those methods can be used in their own study understand how to analyse dialect data from a range of sources, historical and modern (including historical texts, dialect literature, traditional dialect transcriptions, audio recordings, questionnaire returns) conduct a small scale dialectological project using methodologies covered on the course