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The course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities, providing insight into this dynamic and emerging area and demonstrating how to integrate humanities subjects and perspectives into other domains of…

This multi-disciplinary course treats the question of life in the Universe. Where can life have developed? Must it be on a planet similar to Earth? How does life on a planet develop and evolve? Under what extreme circumstances can…

It analyses a number of key issues and challenges that characterise Chinese contemporary society, including. environmental issues, socioeconomic development, and issues related to regional differences and social inequalities. The…

The course delves into the uneven and diverse nature of China’s global push, examining a range of topics, such as labour regimes, environmental issues, logistics/supply chains, digital globalisation, informal/illicit industries, foreign…

This course provides a comprehensive overview of social movements in East and South-East Asia. It highlights the development of significant movements in the region and their relationship to protests and issues of social contention. The…

This course provides you with basic knowledge of key issues of present-day Japanese society. The focus is on post-Cold War Japan, with special emphasis on the period after the earthquake, the tsunami and the nuclear accident in 2011…

The course focuses on Korea post-Cold War, covering topics such as popular culture, gender, and demographic issues. The course also includes Korean politics, addressing domestic politics in both North and South Korea, as well as inter…

The course starts by problematising the concepts anti-semitism and islamophobia and continues by analysing how these concepts have been used in order to designate "the enemy" and in processes of religious, cultural and political …

In this course, we study how Christianity and Islam have historically influenced state power, and how they influence contemporary politics. We examine the challenges faced by religious minorities and why interreligious relations lead to…

Various types of crises will be discussed: crises caused by breakdowns in supply and demand chains; financial crises caused by the decline of (international) financial systems; demographic crises either caused by famine or disease. In the…

This course gives a deeper presentation of long term trends of economic and social development in Africa, with special focus on the agricultural sector. The course takes its point of departure in current challenges and debates and provides…

The course is made up of three sub-courses relating to different themes. In the first sub-course you are introduced to the subject of Economic History. The main issues are the agricultural transformation, international market integration,…

The course explores and explains the historical processes of rapid industrialisation and socio-economic modernisation in Pacific Asia. First, fundamental factors and forces behind the rise of Asia’s first industrial nation, Japan, are…

This course gives you a much improved first hand understanding of the rise of Asia’s two giants – China and India. First, modernisation and industrialisation in socialist China is explored from the pre-communist era until today. The…

The prospects for a sustainable energy transition that can save the climate in the age of Anthropocene will be addressed. Technology optimism will meet degrowth proponents. Outsourcing arguments via international trade will be scrutinized,…

A long-term institutional, structural and comparative perspective is applied throughout the course. Starting with medieval financial and monetary arrangements we study changes of financial systems until today with a specific focus on a)…

This is an Internet-based course that teaches you more about general grammar, English grammar, and the grammatical differences between Swedish and English. Because of the fact that differences between Swedish and English play such a big…

English is the most important language in our part of the world for communication between people with different language backgrounds. This is especially true of the academic world, where papers and articles are commonly written in English…

This course discusses different theoretical models of communicative competence and their application in foreign language acquisition with a focus on reading and writing. The learning and teaching of these two skills are approached from the…

The course will introduce students to a representative selection of poetry from the British Romantic period (c. 1770-1830). This was a time of profound artistic, social, scientific, and epistemic change which witnessed the birth of …

We will not only read their work in relation to key social and political concerns but also examine how women navigated their roles as public authors. How did they present themselves? What genres did they write in, and what is the…

The course gives students training in reading and understanding of English-speaking texts and the opportunity to train their ability to express themselves in speech and writing in English. The course also gives the student training in…

The course is based on active participation, discussion, and reflection. The teaching consists of seven scheduled sessions comprising, among other things, lecture components and group discussions. The course is examined through an…

The course is based on active participation, discussion and reflection. The teaching consists of seven scheduled sessions which can have lecture components but which mainly take place in the form of workshops, where the course participants…

The course is based on active participation, discussion, reading, and writing. The teaching consists of seven scheduled sessions comprising, among other things, short lecture components and group discussions. Students will be expected to…

The course is offered entirely as a distance learning course using an online learning platform and/or other digital tools. Participants are required to participate under these conditions, and must have access to a computer with an internet…

The course encourages participants to use poetry to deepen their connection with sustainability-related themes that are meaningful to them. It aims to use poetry's emotional impact to transform readers into active agents of…

The course covers a selection of machine translation services (such as Google Translate), generative AI tools (such as Chat GPT), and proofreading tools (such as Grammarly) and examines their usability as well as their pros and…

This course (ENGG10) is part of the BA Programme in English Studies (term 6). It is normally not offered as a free-standing course.

This course (ENGG20) is part of the BA Programme in English Studies (term 6). It is normally not offered as a free-standing course.

This course (ENGG30) is part of the BA Programme in English Studies (term 6). It is normally not offered as a free-standing course.

English level 1 is the first and most basic English course at university level. However, since English B/English 6 from Gymnasieskolan is a requirement, you can understand that the level is considerably higher than that at Gymnasieskolan,…

Studying English at university level is therefore a good idea , whether you want to take a BA in English or just want to add a semester of English to your other studies. This is a half-time course (15 credits per semester). Half-time…

This course is more advanced than English: Level 1, and the academic level is higher. You learn more about English linguistics and literature, but you also improve your spoken and written English. Your vocabulary gets even larger, just…

The course comprises 15 hp, making it a half-time course, but the course progression involves parallel courses during the last three quarters of the semester: from week six of the semester to the end of the semester. In practice, you…

At 51ÖØ¿ÚÁÔÆæ you get a BA in either English linguistics or English literature. However, your do not need to choose your specialisation before the start of the course, and you will get more information in the intro meeting. It may be…