Introduction to Global Studies - SIMP01

Overview

A Range of Topics in Global Studies

The student will be introduced to a range of critical, theoretical, and empirical approaches to global studies, with focus on different aspects of globalisation, global relations, and global transformative processes, drawing upon several disciplinary fields. More specifically, the student will acquire insight and skills pertaining to security, cultural, political, gender, and development-based theories and concepts to enable them to make informed, comparative analyses of how globalisation and global relations are related to social change and conflict. The student will learn about the wide array of theoretical and empirical approaches to globalisation and related processes. Furthermore, the student will learn how to approach globalisation from multiple global, national, and theoretical contextual perspectives. The student is also encouraged to apply their received knowledge to their distinct fields of study.

The course will help the student to acquire interdisciplinary skills in the study of globalisation, which will strengthen their ability to apply a variety of critical perspectives to their distinct field of study. The student will be introduced to the ways in which globalisation, broadly defined, is studied within gender studies, post-colonialism, security studies, the study of crisis, media studies, global governance, and development studies. Hence, the course will enable the student to acquire theoretical and methodological skills and to expand their understanding of different expressions of globalisation. More specifically, the course will examine the following broad areas:

• theories of globalisation, global governance, and media;
• globalisation, the state, security, and sovereignty;
• gender and globalisation;
• globalisation and crisis;
• globalisation and development

Online course platform

This course uses Canvas as the online course platform. The course platform will be opened two weeks before the course begins to all students who were accepted. Here you will be able to access literature, assignments, announcements, as well as participate in discussions and communicate with teachers. 

Schedule

The course schedule can be found under the course information on the right. Please note that the final version of the schedule will be made available four weeks before the course begins, and changes may occur until that point. A more detailed schedule will be available on the course platform on Canvas.