research master in language and communication
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Research Master in Language and
Communication
School of Humanities
10 november 2016
Martijn Goudbeek
Kim Tenfelde
Today’s presentation
• Why a Research Master?
• Career perspectives
• The Research Master Language & Communication
• Key characteristics
• Distinguishing characteristics
• Program structure
• Curriculum
• Admission Criteria
• Further information
• A student’s perspective
Why a Research Master?
• Great intellectual challenge
• Studies at a level of excellence
• Strong emphasis on the training of scholarly skills such as academic writing,
clear reasoning, critical analysis and giving academic presentations
• Stimulating research environment: collaboration with highly experienced
researchers with well-established names
• Benefit from the expertise of your personal supervisor
• The best step toward a career in research, be it in (inter)national academia
or in (inter)national business
Career perspectives
• Doctoral programs in the Netherlands or abroad
• @Tilburg School of Humanities; Center for Language Studies Nijmegen
• NWO scholarships
• Research-related professions in business in the Netherlands or abroad
• Multinational companies
• (Non-) profit organizations
• Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
• Research institutions outside the university (e.g., Rathenau institute)
• ….. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Research_institutes_in_the_Netherlands
Dutch Academic Degree Paths
Year Program Title
1st year
2nd year
3rd year
4th year
Bachelor BSc/BA/LLB
MSc/MA/LLM
MA or MSc with a
MPhil supplement
PhD/Dr.
Two-year program
Four-year program
Master
PhD
(Research
Master)
Research profiles, partners, institutes
Language & Communication in Tilburg
TICC Creative Computing
TiCC Language, Communication & Cognition
Babylon Language and Globalization, online culture
Language & Communication in Nijmegen
Center for Language Studies: Linguistics and Language Technology
MPI for Psycholinguistics
FC Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging
Key characteristics
• Challenging two-year program taught entirely in English
• Mixed group of both Dutch and international students
• Program covers the numerous ways in which written and spoken language is
used (integrated approach of linguistic & non-linguistic communication
sources)
• Strong emphasis on the training of empirical research (but this is changing)
You come in as a student and you leave as a junior researcher.
• Training of scholarly skills such as academic writing & giving academic
speeches
Distinguishing characteristics
• Partnership with the Faculty of Arts at Radboud University Nijmegen
• Combination of cutting-edge research with excellent education
• Unique in the Netherlands (thanks to its strong emphasis on empirical
research and inter university collaboration)
• Research and networking possibilities also outside Tilburg via the Centre for
Language Studies (CLS), the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI),
the Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging et cetera
• Areas of Specialization (tracks)
• Communication
• Language and speech technology,
• Psycholinguistics
• Language acquisition
• Language and society
Program structure
Year 1
2 compulsory courses 12 ECTS
2 methodology courses 6 ECTS
4 Elective courses 24 ECTS
Term paper 6 ECTS
Lab Rotation 12 ECTS
TOTAL 60 ECTS
Year 2
1 elective course 6 ECTS
2 methodology courses 6 ECTS
Valorization 6 ECTS
Lab Rotation 6 ECTS
Grant proposal writing 6 ECTS
Thesis 30 ECTS
TOTAL 60 ECTS
Curriculum: Year 1
Compulsory courses
• Foundations of Language & Communication
• Corpus and Experimental Methods
Methodology courses
• (Statistics deficiency course)
• Eye tracking / video analysis / scripting / analysis of variance / programming /
ethnographic research / web analytics / design & analysis of questionnaires
Curriculum: Year 1 and 2
Elective courses (subject to change)
• Cognition and Process: Advanced Topics (PL/CO)
• Decision making in organizations
• Current Approaches to the Evaluation of Online Text
• Social Intelligence (LST, CO, PL)
• Strategic Use of Social Media (CO)
• Games and Social Simulation (LST/CO)
• Advances in Negotiation Studies (CO)
• Social Data Mining for Scientific Research
• Multidisciplinary perspectives on common ground in communication
• Advances in Visual Communication Research
• Persuasion research: classical rhetoric and modern psychology
• Advanced topics in interactive visualization
• Current Directions in Language Learning (CO/LST/LA)
Curriculum: Year 1 + 2
Elective courses (subject to change)
• Nonverbal Communication and Prosody (PL/CO)
• Advances in Social Signal Processing (CO/LST)
• Health Communication Research
• Topics in miscommunication and emotion
• Social Networking in Organizations (CO)
• Usage Based Approaches to Knowledge (PL/LA)
• Evolution of Language (CO/PL)
• Theorizing language policy
• Learning across the life span
• Advances in ethnographic research
• Language change and language contact
• Sociolinguistics of globalization
• Capita selecta in language and communication
• Etc
Curriculum: Year 1 + 2
Nijmegen elective courses (subject to cha
• Automatic speech recognition
• Structure and meaning of noun phrases
• Text mining
• Understanding speech: phonetics and
phonology
• Visual modes of language: gesture and
sign
• Word recognition and production
Nijmegen elective courses (subject to change)
• Communication and persuasion
• Example-based models of language
• Language acquisition
• Language resources
• Multilingualism
• New ways of analyzing syntactic variation
• Non-nativeness in communication
• Semantics and pragmatics
• Sentence production and comprehension
• Sign language and bilingualism
• Speaker recognition
• Concepts and methods in language contact
studies
Admission criteria
• Bachelor ‘s or Master’s degree in a relevant discipline with a grade point
average of 7.5 (out of 10) and a minimal score of 8.0 on the Bachelor or
Master Thesis
• Talent, affinity and motivation to engage in scientific research
• English proficiency (TOEFL, IELTS or Cambridge Proficiency)
Tuition fees
Statutory fee 2017/2018: € 2006,- a year (EEA)
Whether you pay the statutory fee or institutional fee depends on:
• nationality and residence
• previously obtained degrees
• whether you are eligible for a scholarship or not
More information?
www.tilburguniversity.edu/students/administration/tuitionfees
Who is Who
Drs. Denise Lindenau
Dr. Martijn Goudbeek Prof. Ad Backus
[email protected] [email protected]
Program coordinators
Academic advisor
Maria José Rodil
Secretary of the Graduate School
International Relations Office (IRO)
Laura van Bochove
International Recruiter
Christa Suos
Admissions officer
Research Master student
• Kim Tenfelde, 21 years old
• BSc in Communication and Information Sciences,
specialization in Human Aspects of Information Technology
• Currently first-year ReMa student
• Interests: cognition, emotions, non-verbal cues, social psychology
Why choose a Research Master?
• Interest in research!
• Experienced little trouble in my bachelor Intellectual challenge
• Bachelor thesis
• As much (and more!) courses as a regular master
• two-year master program with lots of research experience
• If you have second thoughts, it is easier to go from a ReMa to the regular
master than the other way around.
What did I do?
• Sadly, not much yet
• 2 mandatory courses
• Foundations of Language and Communication
• Corpus and experimental methods.
• 1 elective Webcare
• Paper instead of exam!
• 1 research skill Text mining
• Research Orientation
• Emotions in interpersonal communication
• AI for games internship
• L2TOR
• Language contact and language change
• Attention and aging
First thoughts
Titel presentatie in Footer 2114-11-2016
• Good choice!
• Lots of assistance
• Tutor who is specialized in nonverbal communication (prof. dr.
Marc Swerts)
• Personal touch
• Easy to keep up (so far)
In a nutshell
• Strong emphasis on research.
• You choose which topics you would like to work on and collaborate with
researchers in the field.
• You are prepared for an academic career and can apply for a PhD position
after graduation.
• But you can still choose not to work in academics and opt for a career in
business instead.
Questions?