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The University of Glasgow is offering an open online course on Multilingual Learning for a Globalised World. This three-week course will deepen your understanding of other languages and cultures through consideration of language rights.
The overall object of this course is to explore multilingual education and how it can impact and improve education and even wider society. The course will start on June 13, 2016.
Course At A Glance
Length: 3 weeks
Effort: 4 hours per week
Subject: Multilingual Learning
Institution: University of Glasgow and FutureLearn
Languages: English
Price: Free
Certificate Available: Yes
Session: Starts on June 13, 2016
Providers’ Details
The University of Glasgow is a member of the prestigious Russell Group of leading UK research universities and is striving to change the world with its expertise. Its annual earnings for research are £175m, which means that it can make important discoveries, whether that’s finding a way to detect malaria in minutes, or contributing to the biggest particle physics experiment in the world: the Large Hadron Collider.
About This Course
This free online course will explore multilingual education and how it can impact and improve education and even wider society.
Why Take This Course?
This is a free online course. This MOOC will be offered with Video Transcripts. It is presented in both English.
In this course, you will explore how people’s language practice and the personal connection people have to the language(s) they speak, provoke important philosophical and pedagogical questions around the ways we form personal relationships, engage in business relations and even view the world around us.
Learning Outcomes
In summary, during the course you will:
- be introduced to different multilingual environments, consider what these mean for learning languages, and encounter some of the latest research in researching for working multilingually;
- experience and critically evaluate the idea of active citizenship, discovering ways in which language minorities can be empowered through the equal treatment of all languages and cultures;
- deepen your understanding of other languages and cultures through consideration of language rights, existing educational films and workshops developed through their practices;
- and address the ways in which the creative and performing arts can help translate meanings and enhance understandings in multilingual environments.
Instructors
Alison Phipps
Alison Phipps is Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies, Convener of Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNET) & Principal Investigator: AHRC RM Borders.
Aneta Marren
Aneta Marren is an English for Academic Purposes tutor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Glasgow University.
Elwira Grossman
Elwira Grossman is Director of Comparative Literature Programme and Lecturer in Polish Studies at the University of Glasgow. She has been working with GRAMNET since 2010.
Giovanna Fassetta
Dr Giovanna Fassetta is a lecturer in Intercultural Literacies and Languages in Education at the University of Glasgow.
Katja Frimberger
Bilingual Deutsch-English/ Arts-based researcher at Glasgow Uni/ Drama Enthusiast/ Language Teacher/ Norddeutsche with Home in Scotland/ Cowboy Boots Lover/ Weakness: Nervous public speaker.
Maria Grazia Imperiale
She is a Ph.D. student on the AHRC RM Borders at the University of Glasgow.
Kasia Uflewska-Watson (Educator)
Researcher of migration at the University of Glasgow; passionate about culture, cultural identities, language and education in the digital era.
Requirements
There are no prior requirements to join this course. As you prepare for it, you should start to consider the following:
- What languages do you speak?
- What kinds of arts do you yourself practice? For example, dance, music or visual art.
How To Join This Course
- Go to the course website
- Sign Up At FutureLearn
- Select a course and Join
- Once a course has started, applicant will be able to access the course material
- After the start date, students will be able to access the course by following the Go To Course link on My Courses page.
- Applicants can buy, to show that they have completed a FutureLearn course.
- On some FutureLearn courses, learners will be able to pay to take an exam to qualify for a Statement of Attainment. (These are university-branded, printed certificates that provide proof of learning on the course topic(s)).
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