Lund University

The course gives a broad overview of the archaeology, history, and art history of the material culture and of the written sources from the eighth to the twelfth centuries. The course covers different aspects of the political, social, cultural, and religious developments, as well as changes within Scandinavia. This includes such aspects as the transition from paganism to Christianity, Viking Age burials, gender and social segregation, trade and plundering, rural and urban landscapes, and economic development.

The course provides a deepened overview of macroeconomic theory. The content of the course mainly focuses on business cycle fluctuations, unemployment, inflation, the current account, and fiscal and monetary policy. The analysis is extended to include the fact that economic agents are forward-looking, which considerably deepens the insights into the determination and development of a country’s consumption, investment, current account, and economic policy. In addition, the course contains the IS–LM model that is important for analysis of economic policy.

In the course expressions of modern advertising in different media forms are studied using theories derived from semiotics, rhetoric and image analysis. Advertising is defined as a form of communication. Its intermedia concept is analyzed in relation to, for example, music videos or other means of popular culture. Questions concerning branding, gender, or globalization are treated in relation to visual, verbal, or musical means of advertising. The main emphasis is on an intermedia analysis of concrete examples of advertising in newspapers, television, Internet, buzz marketing, and brand hacking. The focus is on analyzing but also creating different forms of advertising in the twentieth century, as a manifestation of modern popular culture.

The aim of this course is to provide basic knowledge about current racialized formations of gender, citizenship, and migration. Social, economic, political as well as cultural dimensions of citizenship and migration are addressed. The course engages with key theoretical debates in the field, in particular postcolonial and feminist conceptual investigations of citizenship, (non)belonging, and migration.