Skip to 0 minutes and 9 seconds This course is about borders, and it’s about border crossings. So in the first part of the course, we’re going to be learning about the concept of the border, and you’re going to be introduced to a range of different types of borders. So we’ll be thinking about the borders between countries, but also between regions, between cities, and even between different parts of cities, as well as non-territorial borders between different religions, different cultures, different languages. Borders exist as markers of identity and markers of difference. So borders are drawn in order to create an in-group and an out-group.
Skip to 0 minutes and 47 seconds Borders divide spaces, and divide groups of people, but they also serve as a point of contact. It is at borders that different groups of people actually come together and have the opportunity to interact. Once we’ve understood what borders are, we will be thinking about the different reasons that people have for crossing borders, different reasons for travel, as well as the way in which we might cross borders in our daily lives without actually leaving the country in which we live.
Skip to 1 minute and 16 seconds If you travel for work, for example, or travel to study, or perhaps if you’re planning a trip around the world, or a holiday somewhere, that you might want to think about the borders that you’re going to encounter, and how you’re going to cross them. It’s also interesting if you perhaps work with people who cross borders, so people who are working with international students, or who might be working with refugees and asylum seekers, and who want to understand their experiences of border crossings. I think that there’s a wide audience that the course could be interesting for.
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