The course is held between 29th of August and 1st November 2022.

Link to orientation map: Campus Linné 

 

Welcome to GS2121: Theories and perspectives! As course convenors of this course, we are delighted to see all of you come on board. We hope and expect, the next twelve weeks will make for a very exciting collection of lectures, debates, seminars, exercises and assignments. This is ambitious course, which traverses a large and diverse academic field. It will be challenging, but hopefully also rewarding. On this canvas site, you find all the information about the course, the sessions, the assignments and so on. The most convenient way to navigate the course (we think) is to use the modules tab, which offers some preliminaries and then takes you from week 1 through to the end, with dates, links, readings, substance etc for all lectures, seminars and assignments listed in chronological order. Please note that the conventional time scheduling at GU is for sessions to start at quarter past (usually 13:15). Reading is centrally important to this course. As you will see, there is quite a bit of this, especially if you are not a native English speaker. Please make sure to start early and allocate enough time. To help you with this, we will establish 'reading pairs' of 2 students (see under 'people' tab who are supposed to brief each other about what they have read before every lecture. The course will start with a general introduction to the whole Master's programme on Monday 29 August, followed by the introduction to GS2121 itself ("lecture 0") on Tuesday 30 August. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Bart. We look forward to seeing all of you very soon. Bart Klem and Florian Kühn

 

 

 

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.

Link to schedule. Please note, that there may be small inconsistencies between this schedule and the more complete list of details given under modules. If this occurs, please follow the latter (under modules)!

Contact

Course Coordinators

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

Bart Klem: bart.klem@gu.se

Florian Kühn: florian.p.kuehn@gu.se

Study Administration

If you have questions about admission, registration and access to Canvas, you can contact study administrator Johanna Hagström Wigers. 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".