Program Overview

Program Overview

The University of Copenhagen offers a course titled "Global Ocean Politics" (ASTK18423U) as part of its academic programs. This course is designed to explore the key problems facing the oceans and how global governors, law enforcement agencies, and other actors intend to address them.

Course Details

• Volume: 2024/2025
• Education: The course is open to full-degree students enrolled at the Department of Political Science, UCPH, and the Faculty of Social Science, UCPH, as well as exchange and guest students from abroad, credit students from Danish universities, and open university students.
• Content: The course covers the contemporary foundations of ocean governance, including international organizations and the law of the sea, and investigates major issues on the ocean agenda, such as shipping, fishing, piracy, smuggling, or deep seabed mining.
• Learning Outcome:
  • Gain an understanding of the particularities of the ocean as a global political space.
  • Gain in-depth knowledge on the key political, economic, legal, and environmental challenges the oceans are facing.
  • Learn and practice core analytical skills, including summarizing, processing, interpreting, and presenting information.
  • Learn how to conduct small-scale research projects on a contemporary security challenge.

Literature

The course recommended literature includes:

• The Poseidon Project. The Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans by David Bosco.
• Capitalism and the Sea. The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World by Liam Campling and Alejandro Colas.
• Sinews of War and Trade Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula by Laleh Khalili.
• Who Rules the Waves? Piracy, Overfishing and Mining the Oceans by Denise Russell.
• The Anarchic Sea: Maritime Security in the Twenty-First Century by Dave Sloggett.
• Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour by Peter Tinti and Tuesday Reitano.
• The Outlaw Ocean. Journeys across the last untamed frontier by Ian Urbina.

Teaching and Learning Methods

The course will be delivered through interactive seminars, an independent writing phase, and a closing conference.

Workload

• Category: Class Instruction
• Hours: 28
• Total: 28

Assessment

• Type of Assessment: Written assignment
• Type of Assessment Details: Free written assignment
• Marking Scale: 7-point grading scale
• Censorship Form: No external censorship
• Re-exam: In the semester where the course takes place: Free written assignment. In subsequent semesters: Free written assignment.

Criteria for Exam Assessment

• Grade 12: Given for an outstanding performance, where the student lives up to the course's goal description in an independent and convincing manner with no or few and minor shortcomings.
• Grade 7: Given for a good performance, where the student is confidently able to live up to the goal description, albeit with several shortcomings.
• Grade 02: Given for an adequate performance, which is the minimum acceptable performance in which the student is only able to live up to the goal description in an insecure and incomplete manner.

Course Information

• Language: English
• Course Code: ASTK18423U
• Credit: 7.5 ECTS
• Level: Full Degree Master, Bachelor
• Duration: 1 semester
• Placement: Autumn
• Study Board: Department of Political Science, Study Council
• Contracting Departments: Department of Political Science, Social Data Science
• Contracting Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Course Coordinators: Christian Bueger
• Lecturers: Christian Bueger, Jan Stockbruegger

Additional Information

The course is also available as continuing and professional education. The University of Copenhagen provides various services and facilities for students and employees, including libraries, museums, and IT support.