51ÖØ¿ÚÁÔÆæ

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 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…

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 the course is to provide increased knowledge of the effects on the environment of observed and future climate change. Considerable significance is attached to the study of the causal connections that can explain climatic…

The course contains lectures aiming a solid theoretical knowledge about the carbon cycle, greenhouse gases and environmental issues. Topics covered are assimilation of carbon in ecosystems via the photosynthesis, discharge of carbon from…

This course provides tools for analysing the interaction between climate, land use, biodiversity and ecosystem services at different spatial scales. The content of the course includes natural ecosystems, ecosystems with agricultural and…

The course is largely practically oriented to give training in problem-solving, and in how problems can is structured to be solved with programming tools. The course give theoretical bases of programming and application of programming in…

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,…

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 course provides theoretical and practical knowledge of advanced GIS methods and their applications in environmental sciences, spatial analysis, and decision-making. A central theme of the course is research reproducibility, where…

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 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…

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 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 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 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 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 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 aims to provide students with specialised knowledge of approaches to crime, criminal justice and social control based on socio-legal and critical criminological perspectives. During the course, different theoretical approaches…

Corruption is a multifaceted concept that needs to be studied and understood from many perspectives. From this point of departure, this course aims to introduce the students to global and transdisciplinary perspectives in the area of…

This course is offered as an elective course during semester 3 of the Master's programme in Social Anthropology (SASAN), the Master's programme in Cultural Criminology (SACCR) and the Master's programme in Sociology (SASCO). The course…

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,…

The aim of the module is to train the students to plan, delimit, execute, report and critically review an independent, written dissertation.

The aim of the module is to train the students to plan, delimit, execute, report and critically review an independent, written dissertation.

The course offers participants advanced insights into the histories of geographical thought and current issues within the field of human geography. On this basis, the course aims to develop the participants’ competences to critically and…

This advanced level course in Economic Geography focuses on some of the most important socio-economic challenges that today’s cities, regions and nations face. It examines how globalisation affects firms and people in particular places,…

The course offers advanced insights to landscape geography and actively combines this with critical ways of thinking about the environment, environmental problems and solutions within the field of political ecology. Landscape and political…

The course focuses on urban and regional planning and how these activities can manage economic, environmental and social challenges in sustainable ways. Theoretical perspectives, mainly in economic geography, are related to these…

This course examines interrelations between space, place, built environment, urbanity and society. Through lectures, seminars, excursions and readings, students will explore critical urban theory. The course seeks to advancing both…

The course focuses on introducing methodologies through applied fieldwork. The first course element is concerned with preparation of fieldwork, including formulation of research questions, selecting between research methods, organisation…

The course seeks to advance both comprehensive understandings of e.g. history of economic thought, as well as insight into contemporary geographical dimensions, issues, challenges, and conflicts addressed by economic and political-economic…

The course aims to provide an introduction to the rapidly growing field of GIS, for students interested in applying it within their projects and research. It is strongly interdisciplinary in scope, and thus is appropriate for students from…

The course aims to provide an introduction to the rapidly growing field of GIS, for students interested in applying it within their research or work. The course introduces students to some key conceptual debates and developments in GIS,…

The course surveys mostly qualitative approaches, including thematic analysis, (qualitative) content analysis, and narrative analysis. It discusses also some quantitative approaches, such as event analysis and (quantitative)…

One of the challenges and pleasures of Gender Studies is interdisciplinarity. The concept and practice of interdisciplinarity has been discussed, debated and theorized with in Gender Studies since it developed as a research area in…