The aim of this course is to introduce students to the foundations of Critical Discourse Analysis and specifically the Fairclough method.
This course will be run in one session per day running over over 5 days.
The course hours are 9.30 am - 12.00 pm each day
Dr. April Biccum is a Senior Lecturer at the ANU School of Politics and International Relations. She received an MA in Critical theory and Ph.D. in Politics and International Relations from Nottingham University. April’s research is framed by the Global Politics of Knowledge and Communication with a combined focus on how the concepts Empire/Imperialism and Global Citizenship are used, theorised and understood in both the public and scholarly domain. April is co-convenor of the Interpretation Method Critique Research Cluster at the Australian National University which has the aim of raising the profile of Interpretivist and Critical methodologies in the social sciences with a specific focus on the politics of knowledge production and undergraduate and graduate student capacity building in this area.
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the foundations of Critical Discourse Analysis and specifically the Fairclough method.
The course will provide an overview of the foundations of CDA in critical and social theory, hermeneutics, social constructivism, and socio-linguistics before introducing students to the conceptual framework and analytical tools of the Fairclough method and how it can be operationalised in political science.
The course will conclude by pointing students in the direction of more advanced approaches.
This course will run online using Zoom.
