Core topics that will be discussed within the course framework:
- Global Citizenship – Why Does It Matter?
- Citizenship and the Nation-State;
- Citizenship and Globalization;
- Membership and the Right to Exclude;
- Cosmopolitanism and Its Critics;
- The Making of the Modern Refugee;
- The UN Refugee Framework;
- Forced Migration as a Security Problem;
- Climate Change as Borderless Problem;
- The International Framework for Combatting Climate Change;
- Reflecting on the Process of Climate Diplomacy;
- Climate Change simulation;
- Ecological Citizenship.
The course will be taught by the Lecturer of the Department of Humanities and Arts Mariia Laktionkina, and the Assistant of the Department of Humanities and Arts Kseniya Shtalenkova.
This course will be held from October 12 to December 02.
Class times: Tuesday, Thursday 13:30 – 14:50.
Modes: Zoom virtual class meetings, Moodle, Padlet.
Credits: 6 ECTS
Language of instructions: English
We will choose the top three final essays/ projects in the class and an instructor from another section will choose the top essay. The “winners” will present their papers/ projects at the Conference in spring 2022 (details will be available later).
To sign up for the course, please contact maria.laktionkina@ehu.lt