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Certificate of Achievement

Stefan Reindl

has completed the following course:

Introduction to Intercultural Studies: Crossing Borders

University of Leeds

This online course has covered some different meanings of the term “borders”, what motivates people to cross them and how borders can both divide and connect territories and people.

2 weeks, 5 hours per week

Dr Jane Wilkinson

Lecturer in German

University of Leeds

100%
overall score

Transcript

Learning outcomes

  • Compare and contrast national and cultural borders.
  • Explore the extent to which borders differ and are the same.
  • Investigate the reasons for crossing borders and contrast experiences.
  • Describe how a range of cues enable us to recognise that we have crossed less formal borders.
  • Evaluate how borders both include and exclude people but can also serve as ways of bringing cultures together.
  • Compare the experiences of people crossing borders.

Syllabus

  • An examination of the concepts of borders.
  • How different cultures create and demonstrate borders.
  • How borders bring cultures into contact with each other.
  • The reasons why people choose to cross national borders voluntarily.
  • ‘Forced’ migration, considering the reasons people flee their homes.
  • Less formal borders and markers of transition into different cultural environments.

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Issued on 15th March 2020

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Free online course:

Introduction to Intercultural Studies: Crossing Borders

University of Leeds