A new Blended Intensive Programme allows sociology-students to go abroad for a short period of time

• consisting of two seminars, one in Maynooth University, one in the University of Duisburg-Essen
• cooperation between the universities of Duisburg-Essen, Maynooth (Dublin, Ireland), Salzburg (Austria) and the METU (Ankara, Turkey)
• courses consist of two intensive in-person weeks and online-learning sessions

Experience the Erasmus feeling during a short exchange!

Inequality in Europe and beyond: Two connected courses in Maynooth and Duisburg

In-class teaching in Maynooth (part a)

Social inequalities in a Global Age: Comparing Germany and Ireland (part a, Maynooth University)

The Maynooth seminar focuses on introducing students to Irish culture/politics/society over the last 50 or so years and framing this in comparison with the German context. The school will involve a mix of in-person teaching, fieldtrips (e.g., walking tour of Dublin, tour of organic farm) and volunteer social events (e.g., campus tour). Substantive topics covered include health, housing, migration and labour markets, with a special focus on understanding inequalities in comparative and international perspective. Classes will involve a mix of short lectures and breakout groups, where students will have the opportunity to discuss the application of theoretical material to empirical case studies. Students will also participate in the normal schedule of lectures on campus with Maynooth University students on a range of topics including structures of inequality, research methods and EU enlargement. Additionally, students will have ample opportunity for exploring the local context in their own time, as well as to participate in social activities with Maynooth University student societies.

In-class teaching in Duisburg (part b)

Social inequality from national, transnational and global perspectives

For a long time, social inequality was discussed primarily in a national context. However, even when nobody will deny that these national analyses are important, in recent years transnational or global analyses have gained importance in the academic field of social inequality. For instance, the prosperity of European societies can only be explained in the context of the global division of labour and the global economy. Furthermore, through transnational mobility opportunities, new transnational elites have developed that can no longer be classified in national “containers”. The seminar will pick up three selected areas of social inequality - economic, political and spatial inequality -, and will analyze them from a comparative, transnational and global perspectives. The seminar combines in-person teaching with topic related fieldtrips in the area of Duisburg and social events. The aim of the seminar is to enable students to develop their understanding of social inequality in a more and more globalized and transnationalized world.

All central information is collected in this flyer of 2022.

This short-term programme is a great opportunity for all students, especially for those who cannot spend a full semester studying abroad, and we look forward to seeing many of you during the information event. We hope to continue to offer similar programmes in future years.