Intercultural Studies: Culture in Humanitarian Emergencies
7.5 ECTS creditsIKGA26 Intercultural Studies: Culture in Humanitarian Emergencies, 7,5 HP
A warm welcome to the course Intercultural Studies: Culture in Humanitarian Emergencies (7,5 credits) which starts on Monday, 1 September!
You will find all the instructions - the course calendar and study guide - for course assignments on the course page of the learning platform Canvas available one week prior to the start of the course.
Intercultural Studies: Culture in Humanitarian Emergencies (7,5 credits) is a part-time course (50% study time) which means that you should use about 20 hours per week on your studies on it. The course instruction (i.e. course literature, lectures, seminars, assignments, and examinations) is in English.
The course looks at challenges and possibilities arising from the encounters of people from different cultures as a result of humanitarian crises such as wars, natural hazards, and pandemics. These intercultural encounters include those between the majority population at home and newly arrived people seeking refuge and/or asylum, as well as those between humanitarian workers deployed abroad at crisis epicenters to assist people in distress and cooperate with other fellow humanitarians from different cultures. We look at the concept of ?interculturality? which implies dialogue, connection, cooperation, and contact between people of different cultures, and how it works in humanitarian emergencies. We work with the following questions: How and when do humanitarian emergencies facilitate or hinder interculturality, and how can interculturality in turn shape the trajectory of humanitarian crises?
All lectures, seminars, individual assignments, and examinations take place on the learning platform Canvas and via the online tool Zoom.
Most of the course literature is available digitally, on Canvas or the University Library in Karlstad. The following book can be downloaded from the University Library as an e-book or borrowed/purchased as a hard copy:
? Malkki, Liisa H. (2015). The Need to Help: The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism. Durham: Duke University Press.
We are looking forward to meeting you!
A warm welcome to the course Intercultural Studies: Culture in Humanitarian Emergencies (7,5 credits) which starts on Monday, 1 September!
You will find all the instructions - the course calendar and study guide - for course assignments on the course page of the learning platform Canvas available one week prior to the start of the course.
Intercultural Studies: Culture in Humanitarian Emergencies (7,5 credits) is a part-time course (50% study time) which means that you should use about 20 hours per week on your studies on it. The course instruction (i.e. course literature, lectures, seminars, assignments, and examinations) is in English.
The course looks at challenges and possibilities arising from the encounters of people from different cultures as a result of humanitarian crises such as wars, natural hazards, and pandemics. These intercultural encounters include those between the majority population at home and newly arrived people seeking refuge and/or asylum, as well as those between humanitarian workers deployed abroad at crisis epicenters to assist people in distress and cooperate with other fellow humanitarians from different cultures. We look at the concept of ?interculturality? which implies dialogue, connection, cooperation, and contact between people of different cultures, and how it works in humanitarian emergencies. We work with the following questions: How and when do humanitarian emergencies facilitate or hinder interculturality, and how can interculturality in turn shape the trajectory of humanitarian crises?
All lectures, seminars, individual assignments, and examinations take place on the learning platform Canvas and via the online tool Zoom.
Most of the course literature is available digitally, on Canvas or the University Library in Karlstad. The following book can be downloaded from the University Library as an e-book or borrowed/purchased as a hard copy:
? Malkki, Liisa H. (2015). The Need to Help: The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism. Durham: Duke University Press.
We are looking forward to meeting you!
Progressive specialisation:
G1N (has only upper‐secondary level entry requirements)
Education level:
Undergraduate level
Admission requirements
General admission requirements
Selection:
Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.