KLSS3100 Analysing Social Interaction (5 op)

Content

The course will foster students’ understanding of interactional dynamics in professional and everyday environments and offer tools for reflecting on and analyzing professional practices. Students will be introduced to the research tradition of multimodal conversation analysis, including recent trends and developments in the field. Students will learn to analyze interaction from various settings, for example technology-mediated, workplace, and educational interaction.

Completion methods

Lectures, workshops, assignments

Assessment details 

Active participation in the lectures and workshops and completing the required assignments. An 80% attendance requirement is applied.

After taking this course, the student will be able to:

• recognize and analyze the basic structures of social interaction

• collect and transcribe audio, video or digital data

• explain the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study of social interaction

• discuss the social significance and practical applications of interaction research

• carry out a small-scale study following the ethical principles of interaction research 

The language on the course is either English or Finnish. 

Compulsory prerequisites for English majors: Basic Studies

Recommended prerequisites for English and Finnish majors: KLSA1000 Tutkimuksen teon perusteet

Recommended prerequisites for LAGIC students: KVVS012 Qualitative Research Methodology

Study materials will be provided in Moodle.