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KULT1120

Migration and multicultural societies: Ethnicity, gender and sexuality

Credits 15
Level Foundation courses, level I
Course start Autumn 2025
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction Norwegian
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement Aggregate score

About

About the course

Course content

Today's Norway is characterized by global migration flows that have contributed to making society more visibly multicultural. At the same time, Norway has historically had ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity. This course provides a fundamental introduction to various topics, debates, issues, and theories related to migration and multicultural societies, with a particular emphasis on perspectives of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Some of the questions we explore in the course include: How are ideas about equality and difference expressed in a Norwegian context? How can having a multicultural background affect identity and belonging? In what ways are issues of gender and equality significant in Norway as a multicultural society? What specific challenges do homosexual minorities face in Norway? Can integration be understood as dealing with different things, and if so, what are they? And how can we ensure belonging, trust, and cohesion—what is referred to as social sustainability? The course provides knowledge about various aspects and debates concerning Norway as a multicultural society and the characteristics of research in this field. The course is part of the one-year study program in gender equality and diversity.

Learning outcome

Candidates who have completed this course will have knowledge of:

  • theories of migration, diversity and integration
  • central concepts such as transnationalism, integration, discrimination, racism, intersectionality, equality, minoritizing/majoritizing and othering
  • Norway as a multicultural society
  • different perspectives on the relationships between migration and ethnicity, gender and sexuality

Candidates who have completed this course will have the skills to:

  • discuss different issues related to migration and multicultural societies
  • describe and understand diversity in a Norwegian context
  • describe and understand how questions of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality come to play in multicultural societies
  • reflect critically on the position of gender equality in debates concerning Norwegian multicultural society

Learning methods and activities

Teaching will be in the form of lectures and group exercises. Group work and active student participation will be emphasized.

One mandatory task. The exam is in assignment form: It consists of one shorter exam assignment (constituting 20% of the total grade) and one longer exam assignment due towards the end of the semester (constituting 80% of the total grade). To qualify to sit the final exam, the mandatory course assignment must be approved.

Compulsory assignments

  • One mandatory task

Further on evaluation

The course has two exams: one written assignment that counts for 20% of the final grade and a longer final exam that counts for 80% the grade. To pass the course, both exams must be passed.

In case of illness or a grade of F on the shorter assignment, a resit exam will be organized before the final exam.

The student cannot appeal the grade before the total grade for both exams is announced.

Students who have completed the mandatory activity will have the opportunity to repeat or resit the exam whether or not the course is taught that semester. In a semester when the course is taught, both exams must be passed. In a semester when the course is not taught, there will only be one exam which will count for 100% of the grade.

Course materials

Will be given at the start of the course.

Subject areas

  • Gender Research
  • The Humanities
  • Social Studies

Contact information

Course coordinator

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture

Examination

Examination

Grade: Letter grades

Examination arrangement: Aggregate score

Ordinary examination - Autumn 2025

Home examination
Weighting 80/100 Date Release 2025-11-24
Submission 2025-12-01
Time Release 09:00
Submission 14:00
Duration 1 weeks Exam system Inspera Assessment
Assignment
Weighting 20/100 Date Submission 2025-10-01 Time Submission 14:00 Exam system Inspera Assessment

Examination arrangement: Home exam (Resit exam)

Re-sit examination - Spring 2026

Home exam (Resit exam)
Weighting 100/100 Duration 1 weeks Exam system Inspera Assessment