The course is held between 17 January - 23 March 2022.

Link to orientation map: Campus Linné 

Course introduction: 17 January, 10-12

Hello everybody.

Welcome and thank you for joining this course. We will explore a fascinating set of themes, debates, concepts, and case studies over the next three months. The structure of the course is very straightforward, consisting of three modules, each of which is generally divided into thematic weeks. Apart from your inputs into the lectures and seminars, there will be two individual assignments due, an academic essay on 25 February, and a policy-oriented written assignment on 16 March. The latter assignment is linked to a student-led presentation seminar (18 March) and a final scenario workshop at the very end of the course (21 March).

The whole course involves on-campus activities and therefore requires you to be in Gothenburg. However, in view of the new regulations and guidelines by the Swedish government and the university, many activities will be conducted online. We will send out a separate announcement with details very soon. We tried to add as many interactive and dynamic elements to make it exciting. Because of the reading pair arrangement (see below), zoom rooms for the lectures will in principle open 'on the hour' (e.g. 13:00), unless otherwise stated.

During the first lecture (17 January, 10:00-12:00) we will give you an overview of the course's substance, logistics, and expectations. You can find all information about the lectures and assignments under Modules. Do drop us a line if any questions arise.

See you on 17 January!

Bart and Sara

 

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. 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 10-15 minutes at the start of each lecture for you to exchange notes in pairs (or groups of 3). More concretely, we will open the zoom room 'on the hour' (usually 13:00) to then start at 'quarter past' (usually 13:15) and we will use this time to discuss the reading in pairs. For most of the lectures, we have split the reading into two: A and B. reading A B.pdfAt the start of the course, all students have been (or will also be) grouped as either A or B (click here for overview).  For the relevant lectures, students in group A need to read text A, while students in group B read text B. In the 10-15 minutes before the lecture, you will be placed in an online break-out group pairing someone in group A with someone in group B (see here for pairs)  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. In what debate does the text intervene? What argument(s) does the text make? On what kind of evidence, data or argumentation is the argument based? What did you think was interesting, new or thought-provoking about the text? What did you think was a weak or problematic aspect?

 

Link to Reading List, Syllabus and Schedule:

Find syllabus and reading list 

Please note that the reading list can be updated until 8 weeks before the start of the course and the syllabus can be updated until 2 weeks before the start of the course.

Schedule HE2234 VT2022 

 

Contact

Course Coordinators

If you have questions about the course, you can contact the course coordinators:

Bart Klem, bart.klem@gu.se

Sara van der Hoeven, sara.van.der.hoeven@gu.se

Study Administration

If you have questions about admission, registration and access to Canvas, you can contact study administrator Matilda Andersson. You will find the contact information in the Student Portal.

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

 

Sustainable student life

For general information and support for a better study environment we recommend that you visit the site Sustainable student life in the Student Portal. This is where you can also find contact information for student healthcare.

 

About Canvas and the Student Portal

Link to 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".