RLB526 Migration and Religion: Past and Present in V4 Countries

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jana Valtrová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. David Zbíral, Ph.D.
Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Šárka Londa Vondráčková
Supplier department: Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
RLA01 Introduction to Religion || RLKA01 Introduction to Religion
The course is designed as a special on-line course consisting of fifteen sessions, that will be delivered during the semester. Notebook or PC with an access to internet and an audio output is necessary. Students may share the equipment in groups during the course. The course will be taught in English. This course is open also to the students of other disciplines, who are at least in their third semester (starting their second or higher year of studies)- please use the application to ask for an exception.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 12 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/12, only registered: 1/12, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/12
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Through the exposure to an interdisciplinary approach towards the relations between migration and religion, students will be able to identify, describe and then initiate a wider debate on the historical, sociological and psychological processes that are at the same time stimulating migration and being its result. Furthermore, the students will gain knowledge and tools for a critical analysis of migratory phenomena and their possible religious context both in the V4 region, and also in a wider context.
The course will consists of 15 webinars providing insight into the past and present of migration and the role of religion in that process in the V4 countries. It will be implemented on-line and located on the Open Educational Resources platform of the Jagiellonian University. The planned interaction forms with students include i.e. online discussions during webinars, email contact, message board and online classroom at the e-learning course website, homework exchange.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course the students will be able:
to outline key milestones in the early modern and modern history of migration in Central Europe
to understand cultural and religious aspects of migration
to understand psychological aspects of migratory experience
to analyse representations of migrants in the media
Syllabus
  • Module 1. Contextualizing migration – Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska AND Module 2. Historical Background of Migration – General Migration Processes and Polish Case Study – Adam Anczyk
  • Module 3 AND Module 4. Historical Background of Migration – Slovak Case Study – Marta Botikova
  • Module 5. Historical and religious background of migration in Hungary – Andrea Schmidt AND Module 6. Migration in the 16th Century Central Europe – the Case of the Anabaptists – Jana Valtrova
  • Module 7. Psychological Landscape of Migratory Experience – Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska AND Module 8. Different Functions of Religion in the Cultural Transition of Migrants – Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska
  • Module 9. Media Representations of Right-Wing Extremists about Migration – Gabriella Kengyel And Module 10. Refugee ‘experience’: Legal, humanitarian and scientific discourses on refugees - Michal Sipos
  • Module 11: Language and Legal Process, Interviews and Interpreting – Helena Tuzinska AND Module 12. Children of Immigrants, Education and the Use of Ethnography – Helena Tuzinska
  • Module 13. Collective Trauma and Representations About Migrants – Gabriella Kengyel AND Module 14. Refugee experience: Loss, trauma and descent into the everyday – Michal Sipos
  • Module 15. Summary of the course – discussion on final assessment essays – everybody
Literature
  • Migration and memory : representations of migration in Europe since 1960. Edited by Christiane Hintermann - Christina Johansson Robinowitz. Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2010, 224 s. ISBN 9783706548595. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, discussions, reading.
Assessment methods
The students will follow the lectures online, it is possible to listen to the lectures at any time during the whole semester. At the end of the course they submitt four short essays (up to 5000 characters/ 3 standard pages) on selected topics according to their own will. The quality of the essay represents 100% of overall assesment. Plagiarism is not tolerated.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on course enrolment limitations: Zápis mimo religionistiku je podmíněn souhlasem vyučující.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2018, recent)
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