With over 150 million viewers worldwide, the Eurovision Song Contest is considered the biggest music competition in the world. Songs are performed in national languages, minority languages, made up languages or a mix of all. Questions of identity, politics, nationality, and gender are also constantly present. The course provides a linguistic perspective on the Eurovision Song Contest by introducing European language policy, discourse analysis, multilingualism, and metaphor.
The medium of instruction is English. All communication is via the course learning platform. A number of scheduled seminars are held online.
Access to a computer with broadband internet connection is required for participating in and completing the course tasks. For information on technical requirements, see “Technical Requirements for Online Courses” https://www.umu.se/student/sprakstudier/dokument