HEGRBTV04U Interdisciplinary Elective Subject, topic 4: Migrant Lives: Experience, Psyche, History
The purpose of this course is to give students a deeper understanding of migrant lives, experiences and emotions in the 20th and 21st century, to give a fuller sense of the varied comparative and transdisciplinary methodologies that can be used in the study of the subject, and to introduce students to research work with a view to thesis writing. The course incorporates varied approaches including chronological, thematic, and theoretical aspects. For example: the relationship between psy disciplines and migration experiences; the emergence of refugee psychiatry and its relationship to broader political contexts; and the politics of humanitarian psychiatry. The course will center around a group of comparative and interdisciplinary case studies. These include displaced persons and forced migration from within and outside Europe after the First and Second World War; dissidents and refugees in Europe; guest workers and post-colonial labour migrants after 1945 in Britain, France and Germany. The course also incorporates varied methodologies and sources, including printed and unprinted sources, oral history and life-story analysis, quantitative, qualitative and comparative methods as well as film, memoir, and visual analysis.
Goal description:
The purpose of this course is to instil in students a deeper understanding of migrant lives in the 20th century, to give a fuller sense of the varied comparative and transdisciplinary methodologies that can be used in the study of the subject, and to introduce students to research work with a view to thesis writing.
To this end the course will incorporate a variety of approaches including chronological, thematic, and theoretical aspects into the study of particular topics:
- The relationship between psy disciplines and migration experiences: how has the relationship between pathology and migration been constructed in different moments in the 20th century?
- Emergence of refugee psychiatry and its relationship to broader political contexts, and the politics of humanitarian psychiatry
The chronological focus for the course will be on the twentieth and twenty-first century.
Case Studies: The course will center around a group of comparative and interdisciplinary case studies. These include: displaced persons and forced migration from within and outside Europe after the First and Second World War; dissidents and refugees in Europe; guest workers and post-colonial labour migrants after 1945 in Britain, France and Germany.
Methodologies (incorporated into the various chronological, thematic and theoretical subjects): printed and unprinted sources, oral history and life-story analysis, quantitative and qualitative methods as well as film, memoir and visual analysis
TBA
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 84
- Preparation
- 325,5
- Total
- 409,5
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Other
Criteria for exam assesment
https://hum.ku.dk/uddannelser/aktuelle_studieordninger/engelsk/
https://hum.ku.dk/uddannelser/aktuelle_studieordninger/fransk/
https://hum.ku.dk/uddannelser/aktuelle_studieordninger/italiensk/
https://hum.ku.dk/uddannelser/aktuelle_studieordninger/portugisisk/
https://hum.ku.dk/uddannelser/aktuelle_studieordninger/spansk/
https://hum.ku.dk/uddannelser/aktuelle_studieordninger/tysk/
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- HEGRBTV04U
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Level
- Bachelor
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Spring
- Schedule
- See schedule
Study board
- Study board of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Contracting department
- Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
Course Coordinators
- Peter Leese (5-6f68687668436b7870316e7831676e)
Lecturers
Peter Leese, Ana Antic, Lamia Moghnie, Maura Cranny Nowt, Gabriel Abarca-Brown, Christina Fogarasi, Sofia Poulia and Katrina Bugaj