HIS4364 ¨C On the Move. Migration History Since 1800

Course content

Splashed all over screens are images of migrants and refugees: tattered, desperate, and, for some, threatening. Who are these individuals? Why do they move? In what different directions have people relocated in the past? How did they interact with the contexts of their arrival? This course offers a thematic and chronological overview of migratory movements in global perspective in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It illustrates the changes that empires, the transformation of the countryside, wars, changes in infrastructure and gender relations wrought on patterns of mobility since 1800. It challenges commonly held assumptions about migrants and refugees and attempt to understand people on the move from their own perspectives. This class aims to provide students with the knowledge and the critical tools needed to approach contemporary debates and policies.

Learning outcome

When you have completed this course you will know how to:

• discuss major trends and issues in the history of migration since 1800
• assess what is exceptional or ordinary in recent migratory movements
• understand the multiple roles played by migrants in their "host" societies and the exchanges forged by their presence.
• grasp how the movements of mobile individuals have historically connected different parts of the world

As for your more general skills, you will be able to: ?

• engage with both primary and secondary sources
• approach scholarly work as well as fiction, music, and documentaries critically
• demonstrate critical analytical skills both orally and in writing
• initiate and participate in readings-based discussions
• cooperate with others in small groups
• find relevant and reliable information online
• develop awareness about the advantages and limitations of digitization
• present your ideas using digital tools

Admission to the course

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Overlapping courses

• 10 credits overlap with HIS2364 ¨C On the Move. Migration History Since 1800.

Teaching

The course offers short presentations that provide the necessary historical background and introduce 14 readings-based discussion-led meetings that last two teaching hours. Participants are asked to come to class prepared to discuss the assigned readings. There will also be a one-day long study trip to the Norwegian Emigrant Museum: students are highly encouraged to join if they can. All relevant information will be shared in class.?

Compulsory activity: To qualify for the exam, students are expected to prepare an individual oral presentation about a digitized primary source(s), where it was found, and what it can illuminate. The presentation is assessed as either pass or fail.

Examination

The course is assessed by a portfolio consisting of the following:

• A report about digitized primary source(s): where it was found and what it can shed light on?(900 words, notes included)
• A documentary review?(900 words, notes included)?
• A course paper (2700-3600 words, notes included) on a relevant topic. The course paper must be connected to the digitized primary source(s), developed by the student and approved by the instructor. The paper can also be presented in website form or in podcast form.?Attachments and/or bibliography are not included in the word count.????

Content and form will be discussed with the instructor.

Language of examination

The examination text is given in English, and you submit your response in English.

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F?is a fail. Read more about?the grading system.

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• Use of sources and citations
• Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
• Withdrawal from an exam
• Illness at exams / postponed exams
• Explanation of grades and appeals
• Resitting an exam
• Cheating/attempted cheating

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