Entry requirements

1. Bachelor's degree or equivalent

2. The equivalent of English B, or English 6, in Swedish secondary school

The course aims to develop the student’s knowledge of the prerequisites relating to internationalisation of higher education, and of how work with internationalisation can be designed to enhance the quality of education.

The course is based on the remit of internationalisation as an aspect of quality within higher education. The course provides a basis both for work in the international classroom and for internationalisation at home.

Discussion during the course centres on the significance of the internationalisation of higher education and how this can be translated into teaching practice. Various aspects of internationalisation in higher education are addressed, such as:

• The added value of internationalisation?

• Internationalisation at home

• Meeting with the international classroom and teaching in another language

• The diversification of literature and examples outside one's own national context and the Western world

• The utilisation of one’s own international experiences in education as well as those of other students.

• The raising of awareness and discussion of goals and purpose within higher education and different educational cultures

After completing the course, the student is able to:

1. discuss and problematise the internationalisation of higher education based on regulatory documents and relevant literature as well as his or her own experiences

2. justify the choice of aspects of internationalisation in education

3. develop strategies for utilising both his or her own international experiences and those of other students in educational contexts

4. identify the need for additional skills to enable further development as a teacher in the international classroom.

The working methods are developed in collaboration between students and teachers based on the purpose of the course and the learning objectives. These methods can be, for example, seminars combined with lectures, group work, and individual presentations supported by various forms of media. Students give mutual feedback throughout the course. The course is flexible: web-based and campus-based elements can be alternated.

Assessment of the student's performance in relation to the set goals is by means of an assignment in a form decided in consultation with the examiner.

The assignment is presented and discussed at a seminar.

Grading criteria for the course are announced by the course coordinator at the start of the course.

A basic condition for all assessments is that individual performance can be distinguished.

Bates, Richard, 2005. Can we live together? Towards a global curriculum. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 4(1), pp.95-109. (15 pages)

Jones, Elspeth, and de Wit, Hans., 2012. Globalization of internationalization: Thematic and regional reflections on a traditional concept. AUDEM: The International Journal of Higher Education and Democracy, 3(1), pp.35-54.

Leask, Betty, 2015. Internationalizing the curriculum. Routledge. (194 pages).

Williams, Rhiannaon D. and Lee, Amy. eds., 2015. Internationalizing higher education: Critical collaborations across the curriculum. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. (100 pages).

de Wit, Hans, 2015. Internationalization misconceptions. International Higher Education, (64 pages).

In addition to this, the course participants are expected to independently search, collect and assess relevant literature in accordance with the pedagogical model for the course.

The University provides students who participate in or who have completed a course with the opportunity to make known their experiences and viewpoints concerning the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarize the results of course evaluations and inform participants of the results, including any decisions relating to measures initiated in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).