autumn 2022
SVF-3208 Contemporary issues in societal security - 10 ECTS
Admission requirements
The eligible student must hold a bachelor’s degree from a relevant field of study. Prior knowledge of societal security, risk management, safety management, international relations, crisis management and emergency preparedness are recommended but not required.
Application code: 9371
Course content
This course will provide insight into how the attention of security and politics has shifted towards a range of new threats. The new threats include but are not limited to a global pandemic, ethnic conflict, organized crimes with particular emphasis on human migration, cyber-security, and terrorism. Built around the concept of securitization, this course will look at how human migration is framed as a security issue. This course will look at cyberspace as a critical infrastructure where government, private business, and individuals confront different threats. The course will also provide knowledge about how terrorism, has become a contested phenomenon and a wicked problem through relevant international counter-terrorism approaches.Objectives of the course
Knowledge:
The student can ...
- define societal security, understand key concepts, and explain different aspects of societal security at a basic level.
- understand the classical and modern theories in managing cyber-security, terrorism, and migration
- understand humanitarian approach to migration, explain the agencies and technologies of human migration utilizing security policies and practices.
- understand cyber-space as critical infrastructure in government and private businesses.
- understand the role of security authority, community, state and the international community in governing cyber-security.
Skills:
The student can ...
- apply central theories of migration, cyber-security and terrorism to concrete cases.
- discuss the use of surveillance in managing cyber-security and terrorism.
- account for the challenges and ethical dilemmas in managing cyber-security, terrorism, and migration and evaluate these challenges using cases and scenarios.
- reflect on the ways in which different stakeholders govern security threats and discuss the obstacles UN, EU, and other security agencies face in governing migration, cyber-security, and terrorism.
- reflect on the different dimensions of insecurity and evaluate the political and economic consequences of human migration, cyber-security, and terrorism.
General competences:
The student can ...
- understand critical theories in migration, cyber-security and terrorism and apply them to real situations.
- contextualize and critically evaluate the changing demands of migration, cyber security and terrorism governance.
- write innovative research applying aspects of migration, cyber security and terrorism principle and perspectives.
- critically assess and evaluate the economic, social and political consequences of human migration, cyber-security, and terrorism within a national and global context.
Teaching methods
Video lectures, written handouts, live and recorded guest lectures, project work, training-through-research, supervisions, digital workshops, totally 24 hours of instructions.
The course work includes module-based learning (4 modules in total per semester) which will be given online bi-weekly (teaching is distributed over 12 weeks and three weeks per module). There will be 4 hours of lecture bi-weekly.
Coursework requires active participation in lectures and reading material. There will be a written non-mandatory task (reports of up to 1000 words) at the end of every module, marked (passed/not passed). This is to test students understanding of the content of each module.
Recommended reading/syllabus
Pensumliste for SVF-3208 Contemporary issues in societal security (HØST 2022)Examination
| Examination: | Date: | Duration: | Grade scale: |
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| Off campus exam | 02.12.2022 09:00 (Hand out) 07.12.2022 13:00 (Hand in) |
6 Days | A–E, fail F |
Coursework requirements:To take an examination, the student must have passed the following coursework requirements: |
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| Individual assessment 1 | Approved – not approved | ||
| Group assignment | Approved – not approved | ||
- About the course
- Campus: Tromsø |
- ECTS: 10
- Course code: SVF-3208
- Responsible unit
- Institutt for teknologi og sikkerhet
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