Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- how culture manifests and is disseminated through global exchange and encounter, at an advanced level
- a broad range of high-level conceptual and methodological approaches to the study of transnational practices and networks, from a range of disciplines
- advanced conceptualisations, theories and debates around globalisation, migration, identity and culture
- working and thinking globally and across cultures, at an advanced level
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- identify, select and draw upon a wide range of printed and electronic sources
- manage deadlines and make effective use of your time
- engage in advanced debate around complex, high-level ideas and theories
- communicate complex, advanced ideas and arguments in an essay format
- reach an advanced level of global and cultural awareness
- engage in high-level analysis of case studies and arguments
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- demonstrate confidence and skill when engaging in high-level academic discussion and debate about the subject area
- employ social theory in high-level analysis of social trends
- evaluate advanced theoretical approaches to migration, identity, globalisation and the transnational
- demonstrate and apply your understanding of how established scholarly approaches produce different kinds of interpretations of national and transnational experiences, to an advanced level
- interpret and reflect critically, at an advanced level, on a range of global case studies
- communicate a high-level academic argument in the subject area in written form
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Seminar | 24 |
| Guided independent study | 126 |
| Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Journal Articles
Appadurai, Arjun (1990). Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy. Public Culture, 2(1), pp. 1-24.
Basch, Linda & Nina G. Schiller (1995). From Immigrant to Transmigrant: Theorising Transnational Migration. Anthropological Quarterly, 68(1), pp. 48-63.
Wimmer, A., and Glick Schiller, N. (2003). Methodological nationalism, the social sciences and the study of migration: an essay in historical epistemology. International Migration Review, 37, pp. 576-610.
Garland, M. (2021). The Jungle of Calais: a Place of Resistance and Monumentality. IMG Journal, 3(5), 110–133.
Textbooks
Vertovec, Steven (2009). Transnationalism.
Smith, Robert Courtney. Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants.
Brubaker, Rogers (2004). Ethnicity without Groups. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Lundstrom, C. (2014). White Migrations: Gender, Whiteness and Privilege in Transnational Migration. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
M. Martinello & J. Rath, eds (2010). Selected Studies in International Migration and Immigrant Incorporation. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Adey, Peter et al (eds) (2020). The Handbook of Displacement. Palgrave Macmillan.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Essay | 80% |
| Reaction paper | 20% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Essay | 80% |
| Reaction paper | 20% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Essay | 80% |
| Reaction paper | 20% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External