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The course covers the historical development of central aspects of modern and contemporary visual culture, such as the emergence of the modern city, photography, digital culture, and processes of globalisation. These modern and…

The course covers issues related to the human body and its status in modern and contemporary society, with particular regard to the display, representation, exposure, and invisibilisation of the body in different societal, cultural and…

The course gives a basic understanding of concepts within the field of semantics and pragmatics. Various traditions are illuminated, both theoretically and through the execution of problem-based exercises. Among these traditions are…

In this course the student will systematically get acquainted with basic concepts of speech acoustics, such as frequency, resonance, filtering, tones and formants, using different sound illustrations. In laboratory exercises the student…

In this course the student will get to know a wide variety of strategies by means of which different languages deal with the same communicative needs (e.g. question formation, relativization, distinguishing subject and object, mapping…

In this course the student will get introduced to general principles and parameters which characterise feasible phonetic systems in human languages. Principles which control phonological representations such as sound categorisation,…

The aim of the course is to provide in-depth knowledge on how speech is generated and perceived. The muscles of the speech apparatus and their role in speech gestures are studied, as well as the basics of aerodynamics. Speech gestures …

This course introduces the linguistic student to research methods and methodological issues, and prepares the student for writing an essay on B.A. level. The course includes methodological issues such as formulating research questions, the…

This course offers basic knowledge of the area psycholinguistics, which covers language processing and language acquisition. The goal is that you should deepen your knowledge in theories of how we produce, perceive and understand language…

Psycholinguistics deals with the empirical testing of various theories of language production, perception and acquisition. The course offers an introduction to several experimental methods, including reaction time experiments, measurements…

The course deals with one of the most multifaceted aspects of linguistic research: the uncovering of new language data by means of linguistic fieldwork. It gives an introduction to (1) purposes and aims of linguistic fieldwork, e.g…

This course looks at the way language, and language variation, are motivated by human cognition and culture, with an emphasis on cultural and linguistic difference in a context of constrained variation. We shall explore the way in which…

The course deals with either a language, a family of languages, or a linguistic area, which is structurally different from prototypical European languages. The focus is not to gain practical training in a specific language. Rather, the…

Human languages differ structurally across several different dimensions, and various grammatical theories have been developed to explain and describe this diversity. The course addresses a variety of construction types across the world's…

The course deals with current interdisciplinary research on the origins of language. Focus is placed on the relationship between biological and cultural evolution and physiological and neural conditions for language from the perspective of…

When did the Viking Age actually begin? Wood, turf, stone and daub – how did people live, and how were families organised? Power struggle, curiosity or greed? What were the incentives for Scandinavian expansion? What impact did the…

The course examines literature and other media as important sources of intercultural understanding. Works from both within and beyond the Western world are therefore included. The course studies processes and contexts which are brought to…

The student selects three to four periods in the history of Russian literature for individual study. The selection is made from the following periods: The Enlightenment (the 18th century), The Golden Age of poetry (1800-1830), Realist…

The course examines a number of theoretical approaches which have been dominant in both Swedish and international literary research in recent years. They are introduced in a concrete manner in connection to various issues that have been…

The course focuses on a number of key post-Wall German novels, especially novels from the 1990s which directly or indirectly highlight historical events after the fall of the Wall and the German reunification. The novels are studied in…

The course focuses on a number of key post-war German novels, especially novels from the 1950s and the literary situation related to the influential Gruppe 47. The novels are studied in detail against the background of the political and…

The course is divided into two halves, the first covers probability theory and the second covers statistics. The course covers: Sample space, Events, Basic set theory, Axioms of probability. Conditional probability, Independent events…

Basic probability theory, random variables in one and several dimensions, multivariate Gaussian distribution, convergence of random variables and distributions, conditional distributions. Moment generating functions and characteristic…

The course treats: Markov chains: model graphs, Markov property, transition probabilities, persistent and transient states, positive and null persistent states, communication, existence and uniqueness of stationary distribution, and…

The course treats stochastic processes in discrete and continuous time. The main elements are: Models for stochastic dependence.Concepts of description of stationary stochastic processes in the time domain: expectation, covariance, and…

The student chooses in consultation with supervisors and examiner an independent examination assignment comprising 15 credits. The assignment can either be linked to current scientific projects at the Division of Mathematical Statistics or…

The content and execution of the degree project are planned in consultation with a supervisor. The degree project consists of an independent smaller research assignment that can either relate to current projects at the department or to…

The course gives an overview of simulation based methods of statistical analysis. Markov chain methods for complex problems, e.g. Gibbs sampling and the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm. Bayesian modelling and inference. The re-sampling…

The course is given during the autumn semester at Lunds university and at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby. The graduate course in Advanced Time Series Analysis has its target audience amongst students with technical or…

Extreme value theory concerns mathematical modelling of extreme events. Recent developments have introduced very flexible and theoretically well motivated semi-parametric models for extreme values which now are at the stage where they can…

Time series analysis concerns the mathematical modelling of time varying phenomena, e.g., ocean waves, water levels in lakes and rivers, demand for electrical power, radar signals, muscular reactions, ECG-signals, or option prices at the…

The course deals with model building and estimation in non-linear dynamic stochastic models for financial systems. The models can have continuous or discrete time and the model building concerns determining the model structure as well as…

Least squares and maximum-likelihood-method; odds ratios; Multiple and linear regression; Matrix formulation; Methods for model validation, residuals, outliers, influential observations, multi co-linearity, change of variables; Choice of…

Bayesian methods for stochastic modelling, classification and reconstruction. Random fields, Gaussian random fields, Kriging, Markov fields, Gaussian Markov random fields, non-Gaussian observations. Covariance functions, multivariate…

Basic definitions. Continued study of AR (auto regressive), MA (moving average) and ARMA-processes. Line spectrum and parametric estimating methods. Sub space based techniques. Non-parametric spectral estimators, data-adaptive techniques…

The course consists of two related parts. In the first part we will look at option theory in discrete time. The purpose is to quickly introduce fundamental concepts of financial markets such as free of arbitrage and completeness as well as…

The course treats: Functions of several variables: basic topology in R3, continuity, Differential calculus of functions of several variables: partial derivatives,differentiability, the chain rule, gradient and directional derivatives…

The course treats: The real numbers: axioms, examples of proofs of basic arithmetical rules. The elementary functions, polynomials, rational functions, the exponential function and the natural logarithm, the trigonometric functions…