Academic Reading Across Disciplines

Full course description

This skills course introduces students to scientific research in the field of humanities, focusing on history, philosophy, art and literature studies and the qualitative social sciences. Apart from familiarising students with texts from these disciplines, this skills course introduces students to the idea of interdisciplinary research through one example of an interdisciplinary text. Thematically the course features texts in the realm of the “good life” and social media. Furthermore, this skills training trains a number of academic skills, including the close reading of argumentative texts; summarising texts; understanding the contents of texts in light of their distinct disciplinary aims; recognising different methodological approaches specific to each discipline.