SV-404 Communication, Mobility and Globalization (Autumn 2020)
- ECTS Credits:
- 10
- Responsible department:
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Course Leader:
- Oddgeir Tveiten
- Lecture Semester:
- Autumn
- Teaching language:
- Norwegian.
- Duration:
- ½ year
Table of contents
The course is connected to the following study programs
Teaching language
Norwegian.
Learning outcomes
After completion of the course students should
- have knowledge about the central perspectives of globalisation and how globalisation is connected to communication and mobility
- be able to analyse how increased communication and mobility across places, regions and nations can create different conditions for human activity
- be able to assess how social change may lead to new premises for communicative practices
Contents
The course gives a problem based persective of the relationship between communication and social change, and terms like the network society, the information society and the communication society will be discussed. The central perspecitve will be assessment of how new medias and different relationships between geographical places creates changed premises for human activity. Important perspectives in the course are:
- how new communication practices affects human welfare, cultural expressions and economic activities
- how changes in technology and media creates new conditions for communication and activity
- how new methods of production and economic acitivity are linked with communicative change
- how changes in mobility creates new forms of organising space
- how communication is rooted in local practices
Teaching and learning methods
A combination of lectures, seminars and group work. Estimated workload of 27 hours per ECTS.
Examination requirements
Compulsory participation in group work
Examinations
10-day individual home-exam graded A-F.
Student evaluation
The study programme manager, in consultation with the student representative, decides the method of evaluation and whether the courses will have a midterm- or end of term evaluation, see also the Quality System, section 4.1. Information about evaluation method for the course will be posted on Canvas.
Offered as a free-standing course
Yes
Reduction of Credits
This course’s contents overlap with the following courses. A reduction of credits will occur if one of these courses is taken in addition:
| Course | Reduction of Credits |
|---|---|
| SV-422 – Ways of thinking in Social Science; Current Perspectives on Community Planning. | 5 |
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