General provisions

This course is an independent course. It is also part of the Master's program in Educational Sciences with a specialisation in Sociology of Education.

Entry requirements

Bachelor's degree corresponding to at least 180 credits, including at least 90 credits from disciplines pertaining to social sciences or the humanities.

Learning outcomes

The course aims at providing the student with a multidisciplinary understanding of educational strategies that transcend national boundaries.

After completion of the course the students are expected to be able to:

• describe the main features of internationalisation of higher education and research in a global, European, and Swedish perspective

• from a historical perspective analyse the relationship between regionalisation, nationalisation, internationalisation, globalisation and trans-nationalisation of education

• explain and analyse the content of and conditions for social groups’ transnational educational strategies

• describe and analyse how the internationalisation of education is affected by the ways it is organised

• compare the importance of bilateral relations in the field of education

Content

The course focuses on transnational educational strategies in a multi-disciplinary, historical and comparative perspective.

The following areas are covered in the course:

• the main features of the internationalisation of higher education and research,

• processes of regionalisation, nationalisation, internationalisation, globalisation and transnationalisation in education

• social groups’ transnational educational strategies

• organisation of the internationalisation of higher education

• bilateral relations in education

Instruction

The course consists of a series of lectures and seminars. The language of instruction is English.

Assessment

The assessment is based on a written assignment.