Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
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
- interpret and reflect critically, at an advanced level, on a range of global case studies
- employ social theory in high-level analysis of social trends
- evaluate advanced theoretical approaches to migration, identity, globalisation and the transnational
- communicate a high-level academic argument in the subject area in written form
- demonstrate and apply your understanding of how established scholarly approaches produce different kinds of interpretations of national and transnational experiences, to 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
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
- working and thinking globally and across cultures, at an advanced level
- advanced conceptualisations, theories and debates around globalisation, migration, identity and culture
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
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.
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.
Textbooks
Adey, Peter et al (eds) (2020). The Handbook of Displacement. Palgrave Macmillan.
Smith, Robert Courtney. Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants.
M. Martinello & J. Rath, eds (2010). Selected Studies in International Migration and Immigrant Incorporation. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Lundstrom, C. (2014). White Migrations: Gender, Whiteness and Privilege in Transnational Migration. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Brubaker, Rogers (2004). Ethnicity without Groups. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Vertovec, Steven (2009). Transnationalism.
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 |
|---|---|
| Reaction paper | 20% |
| Essay | 80% |
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