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Spoken Language and Gesture - Period 4
Social Sciences & Humanities Program
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dates: late Jan 2026 - late May 2026
Spoken Language and Gesture - Period 4
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Primary Subject Area: Communication
Instruction in: English
Course Code: L_ETBACIW204
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 200
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 84
Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Students majoring in Communicationa and Information Studies (CIS) must have successfully completed ?English: International Communication?, ?Academic English CIS-L&S Grammar?, and ?Academic English CIS-L&S Writing?. Other students must have sufficient background in the study of language and communication and sufficient proficiency in academic English to engage in active discussion and writing about the analysis of English.
DESCRIPTION
Course contents: The course concerns several themes, which are interrelated with each other. One has to do with how we structure our talk and our co-verbal behavior as units on different levels of complexity. Another is how we use both speech and gesture to express not only our ideas about the physical world and abstract concepts (both describing and depicting them), but also our stances towards these ideas. This bring us to the point that face-to-face interaction with speech and gesture can involve alignment and adaptation in real time of our ideas, our attitudes towards those ideas (our "positions", in different senses of that word), and our ways of expressing them.
Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course therefore, CEA's recommended credits are based on the ECTS credits assigned by VU Amsterdam. 1 ECTS equals 28 contact hours assigned by VU Amsterdam.
Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course therefore, CEA's recommended credits are based on the ECTS credits assigned by VU Amsterdam. 1 ECTS equals 28 contact hours assigned by VU Amsterdam.