The course is held between 1st November 2023 - 14th January 2024

Link to orientation map: Finding your way on the University 

Hello everyone,

and a warm welcome to MR2106 State, Market and Human Rights!

We hope and think this will be a very exciting course, both for you and for us. This is a new course that covers some very exciting issues and current frontiers in academic and policy debate.

We look forward to seeing you all at the first session on 1 November at 13:15. Bart will talk you through the design, focus and requirements of this course and there will be an opportunity to clarify any issues or questions that may have come up.

You will find an overview of all key dates in the schedule, but the most complete information is provided under the modules tab, which combines all key information (substance, logistics, links, etc) with a separate page for each session in one chronological sequence. This overview also clarifies the five-block structure of the course, Human Rights &: 1 Corporations; 2 Gender and Race; 3 Mobility; 4 Humanitarianism; 5 Legal Identity and insurgency.

Please note that attendance for most seminars in mandatory, more specifically: Sem I (9 nov), Sem II (10 Nov), Sem III (16 Nov), Sem V (30 Nov), Sem VI (14 Dec) and Sem VII (11-12 Jan). Missing any of these will require you to do a make-up assignment of some sort. Attendance of all other session is strongly encouraged of course.

This is an on-campus course, meaning that nearly all sessions will be held in an actual room with teacher/facilitators physically present. However, if you have any symptoms of a cold, flu or worse (in terms of infectious sickness), we ask you not to come to class. For this reason, we will do our best to facilitate the participation for those who are unable to join class. However, we do not have the means to offer a full-blown hybrid course.

There are 5 assignments that you will need to complete (though number 3 and 4 are connected). We will be strict about deadlines. Rather than facilitating a raft of extensions or late submission, we ask that those of you who simply don’t manage to submit on time (as sometimes happens, we understand), use the opportunity to do a re-take by 31 January. For an overview of grading schemes and weighing of components into the course grade, see here.

Finally, please note that we require you to submit a cover page for each assignment with details about the use (or non-use) of artificial intelligence (see here also for explanation).

We look forward to a lively and engaging course with you all.

Bart and Joe

Course convenors

Bart Klem, bart.klem@gu.se 

Joseph Trawicki Anderson, joseph.anderson@gu.se 

Link to Reading List, Syllabus and Schedule:

Find syllabus and reading list (search for the course using the course code)

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

Link to schedule

 

Contacts

Study Administration

If you have questions about admission, registration and access to Canvas, you can contact education administrator Name Surname. 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/en/your-studies/registration-results-and-certificates?f_sn=1&i_gs=1 

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/en/digital-tools/change-contact-details-in-our-systems 

Sustainable student life

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

Student Ombudsmen

The ombudsmen are here to support and advise students who encounter problems in their education. Please follow this link to find out more.

 

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/en/organization/school-of-global-studies 

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".