2025/26

SUMMARY

This is the fully ONLINE, asynchronous version of the long-standing face-to-face IATL module ‘Global Connections: A Transdisciplinary Approach (EUTOPIA) also on offer in Term 1 (2025/26). Study, learn and engage at your own pace, in a guided and supported manner!

Global Connections (Online) offers a transdisciplinary approach to learning through an innovative and research-led online format which encourages students to share insights as co-collaborators, and engage with new knowledges from both inside and outside the academic world. Multimodal activities guide the online learning experience on this module – including an exciting series of audio/video/text-based contributions from experts who are engaged in globally-oriented projects across a range of professional landscapes.

Students are exposed to a diverse range of voices on this module that will showcase the exciting breadth of perspectives and approaches to globally-oriented issues, and that will underscore the range of vast complexity associated with global (dis)connections. Students are encouraged to reflect upon and integrate their own disciplinary excellence, and personal and professional experiences into their learning journey as they examine a diverse range of globally-oriented themes throughout the module.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the module, students should be able to:

• Critically analyse the complex social and organisational hierarchies that lead to engagement strategies and objectives
• Critically evaluate the many ways in which publics, communities and individual might benefit from socially-engaged research
• Demonstrate theoretical knowledge and understanding of different engagement concepts and positions
• Discuss multiple disciplinary positions through interdisciplinary learning and transdisciplinary practice
• Develop targeted communication and presentation skills to engage people in the field and online
• Evaluate research questions and problems to make sound judgments and produce recommendations