Kursöversikt
The course is held between 5 July 2021 - 30 July 2021 (via this zoom link)
Course introduction: 6 July, 1200 (sharp) - 1300.
Message from the course coordinator:
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NOTE ON READING: Reading is essential to the quality of this course. The more you read and the more attentively you read, the more you will get out of this course. Given that this course has been designed as a summer school with a short but intensive time plan, there is not much slack in the schedule and you are advised to reserve adequate time to study and to start reading early on. As you will, much of the reading is concentrated in the first two weeks, which is also when you'll have quite a few lectures and seminars, so if you can make a head start a week or two before the course starts, that will be a major benefit. Given that some of you do not yet have access to the other pages of this course, please find an overview of the readings for all lectures in the first week linked here. In order to ease your reading burden while also facilitating text reflection and peer exchange, we will use the format of peer briefing in the course. Concretely this means that we will reserve 10 minutes at the start of each lecture for you to exchange notes in pairs (or groups of 3). For some of the lectures, I have split the reading into two: A and B. At the start of the course, all students will also be grouped as either A or B. For the relevant lectures, students in group A need to read text A, while students in group B read text B. In the ten minutes before the lecture, you will be placed in an online break-out group pairing someone in group A with someone in group B to then use 5 minutes each to summarize the text you have read to the other person and vice versa. The five questions below are intended to help guide your discussion, but you do not have to use these. They may be more adequate for some texts than for others, and you are free to structure your peer discussion the way you want.
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Lecture times and format
Lectures will start on the hour (so 13:00 is one o'clock sharp, not 13:15 as is common in some academic environments). They will be held on zoom, using a recurring link. I will make sure to open the zoom-room a few minutes prior to the lecture to allow everyone to drop in. For those lectures that have an A and a B reading (see above), we will use the first 10 minutes for our peer exchanges.
Reading List, Syllabus and Schedule:
Link to schedule (PLEASE do NOT use the zoom-links in this schedule; rather use the links on the page of each lecture, see under modules)
Please note that the schedule is preliminary up to 2 weeks before the start of the course.
If you cannot access the schedule via the link above, you can search the schedule for HU1001 here.
Contact
Course Coordinator
If you have questions about the course, you can contact the course coordinator:
Bart Klem (email)
I (Bart) coordinate this course. I will help facilitate the lectures taught by others, and I will deliver many of the lectures myself. I am a political geographer by training (PhD, University of Zurich 2012) and joined the University of Gothenburg in January 2020. Prior to that I lectured at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne (institutional profile; researchgate).
Study Administration
If you have questions about admission, registration and access to Canvas, you can contact the Student Office:
If you need a transcript of records you can order one here: https://studentportal.gu.se/english/e-services/transcript-of-records
Study Counselling
If you need to talk about your study situation or if you have questions on how to plan your studies, you can contact the Study Counsellors at the School of Global Studies:
studentcounselling@globalstudies.gu.se
Your Contact Details
At the University of Gothenburg we retrieve contact details from different sources so it is important that you, when needed, forward or update your e-mail address in our different systems in order not to miss any important information. Please make sure your contact details are correct, by following the instructions here: https://studentportal.gu.se/english/e-services/e-mail
Online Teaching
Our main tools for online teaching are Canvas and Zoom. Download and get acquainted with Zoom before the first lecture, according to the instructions here: https://studentportal.gu.se/english/e-services/zoom
If you have the need to record a lecture you need to ask the teacher and fellow students for permission. It is up to each teacher to decide if their Zoom lecture should be recorded and available afterwards.
You can find more information about remote studies and tips for creating a good study environment at home here: https://studentportal.gu.se/english/coronavirus/digital-solutions-for-remote-studies
About Canvas and the Student Portal
Schedule, syllabus and reading list will be published here at the syllabus page before the course starts. You will access the other pages once you have registered for the course. Most courses will use the function Modules to navigate the course content. For information on how to use Canvas, please look at the Canvas guides or contact Servicecenter for support.
At My Studies in the Student Portal you will find general information and contact information for various functions that are relevant to students at the School of Global Studies. You can find these pages at the following link: https://studentportal.gu.se/english/my-studies/globalstudies
In the Student Portal you will also find other student related information and log in to all the student university e-services. We recommend that all students explore the resource "To search, read and write".
Kurssammanfattning:
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