Lund University

This course provides a foundation in Swedish. It prepares students to engage in general conversations, daily life situations, the discussion of current events, and the presentation of rules governing academic studies and life in Sweden. It also teaches language structure and basic grammatical rules. In addition to language learning, students engage in a variety of cultural activities such as field trips/excursions to points of interest in Sweden.

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.

The course gives an introduction to numerical analysis for differential equations. This includes the construction, analysis, implementation and application of numerical methods for initial value problems, boundary value problems and different types of partial differential equations.

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.

This course offers a sociological view of economic, social, and political processes, with a special focus on global social change and development. The course provides the knowledge needed to understand and critically analyze discussions about global social change, focusing especially on the post-war period. The teaching consists of lectures, exercises, group assignments and seminars.  In the first module, explore both classical and modern sociological theories. Examine the economic, social, and political transformations central to classical sociology. Key topics include the rise of nation-states, capitalism, bureaucracies, rationalization, and the increasing division of labor within and between countries. The course also covers foundational scientific theories developed in classical sociology that continue to influence the social sciences today.  In the second module, address current development challenges around the world, using both macro (large scale) and micro (small scale) perspectives. Focus on how societies are structured and how they evolve, considering institutions, structures, and social networks, and their complex interactions. Use sociological theories and concepts to shed light on how inequality is created and sustained. The module ends with an evaluation of various social policy interventions through the lens of the theories we have discussed in the course.

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.