CCAS 259Critical Discourse Analytic Methods
Chicana/o and Central American Studies · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Limited to departmental graduate students. Two critical discourse analytic (CDA) methods taught to document language of public figures. Student teams employ one method (conceptual metaphor CDA or discourse historical approach) to analyze actual public official’s own discourse surrounding one controversial issue. Empirical study of discourses that are based on independently developed research enterprises can be valuable tool for variety of graduate student research.
S/U or letter grading.
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Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
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