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Certificate of Achievement

ABDULMAJID KOLAWOLE YUSUF

has completed the following course:

INTRODUCTION TO INTERCULTURAL STUDIES: CROSSING BORDERS

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

This online course has covered some different meanings of the term “borders”, what motivates people to
cross them and how borders can both divide and connect territories and people.

2 weeks, 5 hours per week

Dr Jane Wilkinson
Lecturer in German
University of Leeds

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INTRODUCTION TO INTERCULTURAL STUDIES: CROSSING BORDERS SCORE

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

This online course has covered some different

meanings of the term “borders”, what motivates
people to cross them and how borders can both
divide and connect territories and people.
STUDY REQUIREMENT
2 weeks, 5 hours per week
LEARNING OUTCOMES
• Compare and contrast national and cultural
borders.
• Explore the extent to which borders differ and
are the same.
• Investigate the reasons for crossing borders and
contrast experiences.
• Describe how a range of cues enable us to
recognise that we have crossed less formal
borders.
• Evaluate how borders both include and exclude
people but can also serve as ways of bringing
cultures together.
• Compare the experiences of people crossing
borders.
SYLLABUS
• An examination of the concepts of borders.
• How different cultures create and demonstrate
borders.
• How borders bring cultures into contact with
each other.
• The reasons why people choose to cross
national borders voluntarily.
• ‘Forced’ migration, considering the reasons
people flee their homes.
• Less formal borders and markers of transition
into different cultural environments.

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