IR1233 H23 Global and Regional Governance, 7,5 hp

The course is held between 2 November and 4 December 2022. The take home exam should be submitted by 1 December. 

Finding your way around the University 

Course introduction: Wednesday, 2 November, at 10:15-12:00 in room AS 220 with Fredrik Söderbaum. It is important to attend the course introduction. The first full lecture will be held the day after, 3 November.

Message from the course coordinators:

The course is coordinated jointly by Fred Söderbaum and Kilian Spandler, and we have divided the lectures in roughly equal shares (while Kilian is responsible for the group work). 

Make sure to check the reading list before the course starts. Read all the mandatory literature according to the reading instructions on the individual lecture pages. This should be possible if you plan your readings carefully. There is a lot to read during the first two weeks of the course, so you should begin reading immediately. The reading burden gets lighter towards the end of the course. For those who want to delve deeper into certain topics, there are recommended readings on the lecture pages as well. 

We don't use a textbook on this course but rely on selected articles and chapters. You should be able to access most of them via the University Library. Those texts that are harder to access (some chapters) will be uploaded on the respective lecture pages (see Modules).

For the course schedule, please refer to the information in TimeEdit (see below). The dates and times for the sessions are not added in the Canvas modules to avoid confusion in case of late changes. If we need to make any changes to the schedule, we will communicate those via an announcement on Canvas Announcement and TimeEdit will be updated as soon as possible by the student administration.  

 

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 (preliminary up to 2 weeks before the course start date)

 

Contact

Course Coordinators

If you have questions about the course, you can contact the course coordinators on the following e-mail addresses (i.e. e-mail is preferred compared to using the Canvas). Generally, try to contact us in person during the course.

Fredrik Söderbaum, e-post: fredrik.soderbaum@globalstudies.gu.se

Kilian Spandler, e-post: kilian.spandler@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/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 https://studentportal.gu.se/en/service-and-support/student-health. 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/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".