Module manager: Dr Nichola Wood
Email: n.x.wood@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
This module is not approved as a discovery module
This module explores the experiences and challenges of living in an era of super-mobility and super-diversity over the course of three interrelated blocks. The first block encourages students to develop a conceptual understanding of the geographies of migration, refuge/asylum, nationalism and cosmopolitanism through a critical appreciation of the main theoretical approaches to these topics. The second block explores contemporary experiences of migration focusing on the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of migration and the transnational/translocal processes that underpin and emerge from such mobility. The final block explores the challenges of encountering and living with difference and the social, cultural and political impacts that migration is having on both migrant and `host’ communities.
This module aims to:
1. demonstrate a critical and conceptual understanding of inter-disciplinary scholarship on migration, cosmopolitanism, refuge/asylum and nationalism.
2. use the theories and concepts explored above to analyse real-world experiences of migration and encounters with social and cultural difference.
3. appreciate the diverse, dynamic and contested nature of debates surrounding migration, cosmopolitanism, refuge/asylum and nationalism.
4. understand the motivations and experiences that lie behind migratory decisions and experiences.
5. use academic, journalistic and electronic information sources to inform their critical analysis of migration and encounters with difference.
6. express their understanding in written and audio formats.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
SSLO1: Discuss the inter-disciplinary scholarship on migration, cosmopolitanism, refuge/asylum and nationalism.
SSLO2: Explore the processes underpinning people's mobilities in a globalized world and the diverse experiences and challenges of living with difference.
SSLO3: Examine the importance of spaces, places and connections between them in the constitution of social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of migration and encounters with difference.
SSLO4: Critically examine embodied, material, social and cultural aspects of migration and encounter in addition to the broader inequities of global migration regimes.
SSLO5: Communicate findings in different written and oral formats on socially and politically sensitive topics.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
SKLO1: Communication – learning how to convey and receive information clearly, accurately and appropriately to different audiences through academic writing, digital communication, and information and media literacies.
SKLO2: Creativity – generate ideas and imaginative thinking through developing new case study examples to explore the issues introduced in lectures and seminars and develop an awareness of cultural diversity.
SKLO3: Critical thinking – gather information and perspectives from a wide range of sources and to analyse and interpret this to aid understanding.
SKLO4: Research – access and investigate a variety of sources of information on a subject in order to expand or provide new knowledge of a topic.
SKLO5: Information searching – search for, evaluate and use appropriate and relevant information sources to strengthen the quality of academic work.
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drop-in Session | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Lecture | 17 | 1 | 17 |
| Seminar | 14 | 1 | 14 |
| Private study hours | 166 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 34 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
Weekly seminars give students the opportunity to receive formative feedback on the seminar tasks that they engage with prior to each seminar. The seminars are designed to support the key concepts/issues/debates introduced in the lectures. There are also 3 timetabled drop-in sessions (1 in semester 1 and 2 in semester 2) where students can ask questions connected to the two assessments and get formative feedback on their plans to complete the assessments.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Coursework | 50 |
| Coursework | Coursework | 50 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 21/03/2025
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