Deadline:
May 31, 2025
Program Starts: July 13, 2025
Program Ends: August 02, 2025
Location(s)
United Kingdom
Coventry
Overview
Global Connections is a module about complex, globally-oriented topics that are challenging to address through one disciplinary approach. This module offers the skills you will need to tackle multidimensional, fluid and often unpredictable factors that create global problems. As such, we will explore topics that include an intricate convergence of perspectives, experiences and knowledge including Global Health, Migration, Global & Sustainable Development, the Global Knowledge Economy, Transnational Communication, and Global Cultural Flows. As such, you will exposed to a range of disciplinary approaches - from the economic, philosophical, and political, to the social, environmental and technological.
Global Connections offers a ‘transdisciplinary approach’ to learning – we will explore the equal value of academic, personal and professional experiences in understanding complex global issues. On this module you will be exposed to range of compelling topics delivered by Specialist Contributors who are experts in their interdisciplinary field of work, and are based across the academic landscape of the Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences. On this module, you are encouraged to integrate your own disciplinary knowledge, personal experiences, and/or reflections on your professional life as we examine together the complexities of Global Connections.
Details
This course will include many voices from experts through a multimodal, transdisciplinary approach. The daily workshops will be facilitated by staff from Warwick's Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning, and the course will also include the voices of specialist contributors who work on globally-oriented topics in pre-recorded presentations that we will examine both autonomously and together. As a transdisciplinary module, we value and work with all forms of knowledge, and we will rely on student contributions to co-create content together. The general structure of the course is as follows:
Week 1:
- Introduction to Global Connections
- Globalization
- Global Governance
Week 2:
- Health & Wellbeing
- Intro to Sustainable Development Goals
- Global and Sustainable Development
- Introduction to Migration
- Migration and Mobilities
Week 3:
- Global Knowledge Economy
- Communicating Global Connections
- Global Shakespeares (or similar case study)
- Student-Devised Projects
- Presentations of mini Student-Devised Projects
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
This module is for anyone who is interested in global issues, and there is no requisite to join. We welcome a diverse range of students from different academic, cultural and professional backgrounds, which is important in establishing a rich intercultural learning experience for all.
Students must be aged 18 or over by the time the Summer School commences and have a good understanding of the English language.
Dates
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Program starts:
July 13, 2025
Program ends:
August 02, 2025
Program Starts: July 13, 2025
Program Ends: August 02, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
Warwick Summer School (tuition fee only)
- Student Rate* £2,460
- Standard Rate £3,300
- Application Fee (non-refundable) £50
Un-save Opportunity
Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
