General provisions

The course is part of the Master's Programme in Sociology of Education. It can also be given as an independent course.

Entry requirements

A Bachelor's degree corresponding to at least 180 credits, including at least 90 credits from a discipline pertaining to the 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

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

Instruction

The course consists of a series of lectures and seminars.

Assessment

The assessment is based on a written assignment. Participation in the defence of written assignments is compulsory.