CRIMODKOK Crisis and Security module (20 cr)

The multidisciplinary module “Crisis and Security” is an open module to all students of the University of Jyväskylä. It consists of seven courses that provide students an overall view on crises, conflicts, and security issues from a number of perspectives.

Contemporary political and military crises and conflicts have triggered many kinds of challenges to human security. At the same time, the political aim to elevate security as the highest human value and to make society as secure as possible have posed a challenge to the fundamental values of freedom, equality, and human rights.

The module addresses this and other questions by engaging with the phenomena of crisis and security in an interdisciplinary manner. It encourages students to reflect on the analytical and ethical assumptions that shape crisis and security conceptions in contemporary global politics. Locating the debates about the meaning of crisis, conflict and security in historical context, it explores different theoretical approaches to crisis, conflict and security and applies them to various topical issues in global politics.

After completing this module a student is able to understand causes of conflict, tensions and violence in the world system, as well as how to mitigate them. She is familiar with critical security theories and the historical development of the concepts of crisis and security. She will also gain in depth knowledge of migration theories and how these theories have developed to fit the new trends of migration flows imposed by globalization, economic and political changes. In addition, she will gain an understanding of the nature of global ethical problems and their special characteristics as well as acquire intellectual tools to understand the multiple challenges in both global and local development contexts.

CRIA5001 Crisis, Conflict and Security (5 op)

HISA1006 Crises and History (5 op)

POLA2016 Theory of World Politics (5 op)

SPTS2005 Gender Studies Seminar (5 op)

FILA510 Ethics of Global Responsibility (5 op)

YKPS3102 Migration Policy (5 op)

YKPS3101 Sustainable Development as a Societal Challenge (5 op)