Course
Course 7.5 credits • COSM36
This is a course for students who are interested in how social, cultural, and political processes and demands can be studied through the lens of social justice. The course especially focuses on how the study of Asia, as part of the global south, has led to new knowledge and theoretical developments in social justice research.
Teaching – autumn semester of 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect our courses and programmes. Teaching and assessment during the first half of the autumn semester 2021 will be conducted both online and on campus. From 1 November more elements will be conducted on campus – the current schedule is available on course websites and/or in Canvas.
The aim of the course is to make it possible for you to pose questions and design studies of social (in)justice and social (in)equality in East and South-East Asia that are linked to current theoretical discussions.
Contemporary theories have tended to go beyond normative (western) definitions in favour of formulating justice and equality as a substantial result of social relations and in relation to globalisation, democracy, legitimacy, membership, identity etc. We start the course with an overview of contemporary interdisciplinary discussions about social justice and social equality and proceed with more specialised studies, in which you read and discuss a selection of predominant theoretical works from different disciplines, e.g. political science, sociology, anthropology, development studies and gender studies.
This is followed by the main part of the course, in which you study different examples of research in Asian Studies in which the theoretical perspectives are applied and/or queried or in which they could be put to use. You use course assignments, group work and seminar discussions to practise your ability to critically assess the applicability of a certain theory to different empirical examples, and to design theoretically relevant studies.
Study period:
autumn semester 2021
Type of studies:
full time,
day
Study period:
2021-09-30 – 2021-10-29
Language of instruction:
English
Application code:
LU-19591
Eligibility:
A degree of Bachelor in social sciences or humanities. English 6/English course B.
- Canvas COSM36 - Asian Studies: Social Justice and Social Equality in East and South-East Asia
- Library Guide
Information on included parts
- Individual seminar assignment , 2.5 credits
- Individual Take-Home Exam , 5 credits