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‘Just practise enough and everything will be fine!’ Is it really that simple? Why does it feel so difficult and discouraging at times? This course is designed for students at music academies, but also for active musicians and music…

The course presents modern microeconomic theory and a set of applications. The applications considered include: The theory of economic decision making under risk and uncertainty, including the important notions of risk aversion and…

The first part of this course will discuss how rational people should make simple decisions and form empirical judgments. This part also discusses the systematic ways in which real human beings deviate from these models in practice. A…

This course gives the basis that is needed to enable students to empirically analyse economic data without making unrealistic assumptions. Modern econometric techniques are treated, and at the same time considerable emphasis is placed on…

The content of the course is the following topics: • Elementary set theory (set inclusion, union, intersection), • Elementary number theory (natural numbers, rational numbers, real numbers), • Elementary functions …

The course deals primarily with the short run, i.e. business cycle phenomena and stabilization policy. In addition, the determinants of long-run inflation and unemployment are studied. The course begins with consumption and investment…

The course focuses on macroeconomic issues that arise when studying and analysing open economies. The content of the course is focused on understanding how international flows of goods, services and capital affect open economies, and how…

These areas usually include individual health related behaviour, the physician-patient relationship, health insurance, competition in the hospital industry, innovation and diffusion of medical technology, equity in theory and practice,…

The course deals with both regional and multilateral economic integration, and the institutional and economic context within which they take place. Examples of issues covered include the current challenges faced by the World Trade…

The course aims at deepening the student's theoretical and methodological knowledge of development economics. The point of departure is that economies are low-income because of a lack of economic growth. This in turn depends on low…

The course contains the following building blocks: Investment decision under certainty: the risk free rate and Fisher-separability Risk aversion and expected utility Arrow-Debreu securities Portfolio theory Market equilibrium:…

The course begins with a brief discussion of estimation methods that can be used to analyse financial models, such as Least Square (LS), Maximum Likelihood (ML) and Generalised Method of Moment (GMM). This is followed by a description of…

The course provides an advanced, organised, and comprehensive discussion of theoretical and empirical research in public economics. It focuses on the relationship between the government and the market and arguments for and against…

A pass on the course is compulsory if the student is to obtain a master’s degree in Physical Geography. The course is carried out as an independent project. In the project the student should display an ability to apply and compile…

The aim of this course is to give the underlying mathematical and computer science theory required in GIS. This knowledge is necessary to evaluate the results in an analysis and to carry out more advanced analyses where the tools not are…

The aim of this course is to study the use of GIS in a client-server environment, where communication takes place through the Internet. Part of the course deals with computer screen cartography. The lectures deal with the most important…

The degree project requires a literature review and special studies. In addition, it includes a number of compulsory elements, in the form of lessons and seminars, which deal with, among other things, scientific writing in English and…

The course treats: Object-oriented programming style for scientific computing. SciPy/NumPy data structures. Examples of complex numerical algorithms from different fields within numerical analysis. Coupling to numerical libraries in C…

The course is preparatory for a master's thesis in numerical analysis. The overarching goal of the course is that students acquire in-depth knowledge in a specialised area of numerical analysis and are introduced to current research in the…

The course treats: Methods for time integration: Euler’s method, the trapezoidal rule. Multistep methods: Adams' methods, backward differentiation formulae. Explicit and implicit Runge-Kutta methods. Error analysis, stability and…

The ability to argue well is one of the core competencies expected of citizens, politicians, companies, and students. The purpose of this course is to discuss and provide a vocabulary and instruments for the analysis, evaluation, and…

The course introduces different theories of translation, from classical contributions to modern theories that build on semiotics, the general science of meaning. Central questions dealt with include the nature of the act of translation,…

In this course you will learn modern statistical computing as viewed in data science through implementations in popular computing platforms such as R and Python. It covers the following topics: The R and Python environment: R packages…

Machine learning refers to statistical model predictions that that improve through experience; as new data arrive, the model learns and adapts. For instance, the price that the supermarket can charge for advertisements depends critically…

This course covers advanced machine learning methods that are relevant for applications in business and economics, and is intended as a continuation of STAN51 Machine Learning from a Regression Perspective. Some of the topics covered…

The course covers matrices and multivariate normal distribution singular value decomposition and its geometric interpretation principal component analysis including its functional formulation factor analysis cluster analysis …

The course consists of supervised study and group discussion of selected texts, independent study and oral presentation of selected primary texts and a detailed outline of the projected master’s thesis.

The course includes an overview of the emergence of rabbinic Judaism and the most important texts from classical rabbinic literature. The political, cultural and linguistic environments in which rabbinic texts emerged are also discussed as…

The course is conveyed through recorded lectures and instructed self-studies, as well as written discussions where your participation is expected. During the course we will cover five areas:  Introduction to global health. Global…

Interdisciplinary understanding of security policy and medical science The course will give you an interdisciplinary understanding of the interplay between security policy and medical science, particularly in the light of contemporary…

How can a global health program apply a right based approach? Is health a necessity for the enjoyment of human rights? These are some of the questions that you will have the opportunity to explore through web-based lectures, seminars and…

The course focuses on historical processes and their role in shaping identity in modern Russia and its Eastern European neighboring countries (such as Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova), which were part of the Soviet Union before 1991. Key…

The course critically reflects on theoretical approaches and concepts applied in studies of Belarus and Ukraine, such as postsocialism, postcolonial space, democratisation,and neoliberal transformations. It looks at how events and…