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The course treats basic properties of signed and complex measures: Hahn and Jordan decomposition, absolute continuity and the Radon-Nikodym theorem, singularity, Lebesgue decomposition of measures, differentiability of finite Borel…

The thesis should be a synthesis and further development of the knowledge and competences gained during the three terms of course work in LUMES on top of undergraduate studies. The thesis work should develop…

The course addresses political approaches to and perspectives on sustainability issues and place these in relation to the actual ability to address sustainability challenges. It tackles both central political factors as well the creation…

The course provides interdisciplinary perspectives from the field of environmental geography aimed at studying the dynamics of social and environmental change in particular places. It covers perspectives from a variety of research fields,…

The course briefly reviews economic theories and economic growth and analyses their environmental and social consequences, for instance, environmental degradation, social welfare and equity. Students will develop competencies in critically…

This course provides opportunities for participants to enhance their knowledge and skills in sustainability science through a deeper comprehension of the strengths and weaknesses of participatory methods. The course is based on…

The course covers specific methods, techniques and debates around measures designed to mitigate climate change. It familiarises the student with technical, social and governance processes to implement, among others, large-scale renewable…

The aim of the course is to provide students with an in-depth understanding of climate change adaptation, centered around the concepts of risks, vulnerability and justice. The course presents and discusses various solutions for climate…

The course deals with societal transformation as a concept and as action in relation to climate change. It links to previous programme courses on mitigation and adaptation and introduces processes and potential for more fundamental changes…

The course explores a range of methods and tools for understanding and taking action on societal challenges posed by climate change and aims to analyse the implications, challenges and opportunities in applying them in practice. Building…

The study of media, communication and culture has a rich tradition in various methodological positions in the social sciences and humanities. This course critically evaluates established methodological perspectives on research methods in…

This course is intended to cover fundamental questions on the very substance of science and the scientific method; on what distinguishes good and proper science from pseudoscience, from charlatanry and plain cheating; the relation between…

You can perform a Master's Degree project of 30, 45 or 60 credits in either General Molecular Biology, or one of the specialisations Medical Biology, Microbiology or Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology. The prerequisites for a Master´s…

The course contains elements of research ethics with a focus on principles of good scientific practice and regulations for ethics review and procedures on issues of misconduct. The course also provides knowledge and training in…

During the course, the student studies a research area related to current research. Possible themes include human rights in governmental and non-governmental organizations, human rights and political values, migration and refugees,…

During the course, the student studies a research area related to current research. Possible themes include human rights in governmental and non-governmental organizations, human rights and political values, migration and refugees,…

The course is for you who want to integrate self reflection and techniques to meet tentions in your work and studies as a musician. Methods and reflecting perspectives are combined to understand the complexity in professional musicianship…

The course deals primarily with economic decision making concerning consumption and production. The course starts with a treatment of the underlying principles that guide an individual's optimal consumption decisions under both certainty…

This course starts with an introduction to descriptive statistics, probability theory and inference. Thereafter, the course treats problems connected with establishing and quantifying the relationship between different economics variables…

The course provides a deepened overview of macroeconomic theory. It deepens the content of the introductory course by adopting a more thorough analysis and problematizing the streangths and weaknesses of different theories and models, both…

The course begins with development gaps, and the relationships between per capita income and other measures of development. Thereafter it reviews the theories of economic growth and the development process. It focuses on the role of…

This course covers modern econometric tools and empirical strategies used by economists and demographers for the analysis of cross-sectional and panel micro-data. The course teaches the econometric theory behind these techniques but also…

The course gives an introduction to basic concepts within time series analysis. The univariate analysis of time series in this course is based upon ARMA/ARIMA and ARCH-/GARCH models. Multivariate time series analysis is based on VAR models…

The course covers and discusses recent advances in Labour Economics, with an emphasis on empirical applications. Each lecture focuses on a specific topic. The course starts by discussing theories of labour supply and demand, and proceeds…

The course deals with the mechanisms behind and the effects of international trade. The course uses an advanced treatment in terms of topics and methodology, qualifying the student to carry out advanced analyses and the study of issues…

The objective of this course is to give the students an understanding and hands-on knowledge of fundamental methods within financial risk management. The course deals with two main topics: measurement and management of market risk and…

The course primarily treats issues related to economic growth using advanced dynamic macroeconomic models with intertemporally optimising agents. Within the framework of growth theory, dynamic models in continuous and discrete time…

Remote sensing is the common name for methods used to study the Environment around us without actually being in contact with the study objects. Examples of remote sensing methods are photography, echo sounding and radar. The course gives…

The course gives an introduction to the functioning of different ecosystems and the effects of climate and geology on the ecosystem processes with for example the carbon and nutrient cycle. The course aims to supply basic scientific…

This course will provide you with in-depth and applied knowledge of Earth's landscapes. You will learn about the processes by which landscapes evolve and change in different climate and space scales. The course focuses on: the Earth…

The course aims to introduce the student to basic knowledge regarding global climate systems, climatological processes and their effect on global and local climate. The course contains components of both theoretical and practical character…

The overall goal of the course is to give you hydrological knowledge from different perspectives. This means that you must have knowledge of the water cycle in nature and how humans affect this in different ways. Important components…

The aim of this course is to provide students with the theoretical understanding of how a geographic database is built-up and how it can be used. You will study key concepts for handling geographic databases with special focus on spatial…

The course contains a number of different basic components of spatial analysis, both in terms of theoretical background and analytical methods. Some of the concepts and techniques covered in the course are point pattern analysis,…

Simulation models are important tools and are used in administrations and companies to produce a basis for environmental policy decisions and planning, but the systems are also used in research contexts to describe complex systems and…

The degree project requires a literature survey and specialised studies. Furthermore, a number of compulsory activities are included, in the form of teaching sessions and seminars that treat e.g. scientific writing in English and Swedish,…

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…

Simulation techniques is a field which merges experience in modelling with knowledge in Scientific Computing and programming skills. The course gives students in a late stage of their university studies the possibility to work, in small…

The course covers: Models of computational fluid dynamics Hyperbolic conservation laws and their basic properties (weak solutions, weak entropy solutions, shocks) Discontinuous Galerkin discretizations Simulations of gas dynamics…

The course gives an introduction to error estimates, convergence and stability, as well as existence and regularity of solutions to elliptic differential equations (PDEs). This is followed by an introduction to DUNE-FEM which discusses how…

The course provides students with a general overview of the development of Greek from Antiquity to the present, focusing on the period from the late Byzantine to the modern era with regard to changes in sound system, grammar and syntax…

This course is an introduction to the rapidly growing field of Corpus Linguistics and its application in Modern Greek studies. Corpus Linguistics (CL) is a method to retrieve data to study natural occurring language in different contexts…

The PSYD54 is an introductory course to cognitive neuroscience. During the course, you will learn about brain structure and function, and central areas of modern cognitive neuroscience, such as attention, memory, language, and…

Personality and developmental psychology is the field of psychology that both describes and explains how people change and develop in certain ways in life and at the same time how they remain constant in their characteristics to some…

We will cover issues such as citizenship and representation in political institutions, changes in women’s participation in the labour force, sexuality and the social welfare state, masculinity studies as well as gender and social change…

The aim of the course is to analyse Sweden's transformation into an industrial society, structural changes in Swedish economic development and the economic structure of modern Sweden. The course discusses Swedish economic development in a…

The course begins with an examination of the development of Swedish labour policy in general during the post war period. Particular attention is laid on the fundamental changes that have taken place from the 1970s onwards in the…

This course examines demographic and labour market trends together with policies relating to work and family life, focusing on the Scandinavian experience in international perspective. During the twentieth century, the relationship…

The course provides a survey of Swedish literary tradition, from the Middle Ages until today. It is centred on canonised and internationally well-known authors such as Carl Michael Bellman, Carl von Linné, Selma Lagerlöf, August…