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This course explores the interactions between organisms, the dynamics of populations, and the environment. It deals with animal, plant, and pathogenic organisms, and the structuring and function of communities and develops both a quantitative and qualitative understanding of interactions between organisms and their consequences.  The course is broken down into three parts: population biology, species interactions, and community ecology, and it consists of lectures and several extended practicals lasting two to three weeks.

In this course, the clinical aspects of the various anxiety disorders are presented as well as knowledge of theories and models about the maintenance factors and their treatment implications. In the tasks, case histories of patients with anxiety disorders are arranged according to different focus points. The framework is built by the various anxiety disorders (specific phobia, social anxiety disorders, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder). Based on these different anxiety disorders three different theories concerning the etiology and maintenance factors of anxiety are studied 1) learning theory, 2) cognitive theory, and 3) biological models of anxiety. Treatment implications from these different theories are also studied.

From Wordsworth’s ‘gleams of half-extinguished thought’ to Freud’s excavation of the human psyche, writers and thinkers throughout the 19th century were preoccupied by the workings of memory and time. This course investigates connections between literature, the arts, philosophy and science, revealing the centrality of memory and memorialization to the 19th-century imagination. Students examine how developments in science and technology impacted upon the perception and representation of time, while also exploring how modernity was constructed through an active engagement with the past. Topics to be discussed include: time and modernity; technology and the standardization of time; history and historicism; afterlives and hauntings; evolution and extinction; architecture and material memory; nostalgia and trauma; imperial and colonial time.

This course deals with the most important developments in the history of the media concerning social aspects and key perspectives on them; special emphasis is placed on Swedish circumstances and present-day social media, which are approached from a historical perspective. Students focus on the different historical forms of participatory media and the changing concept of the audience.

This course aims to provide basic mathematical concepts that have been widely used in economics. Topics include feasibility (Farkas Lemma), convex sets, linear programming, and non-linear programming. Economic applications are discussed throughout the course in order to illustrate how mathematics is used in economic theory.

Prerequisite: Mathematics for Economics I, Microeconomics