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 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.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.