Lund University

This course provides an overview of Swedish and Nordic history from the Viking Age to the present. To allow a critical approach to an otherwise Swedish interpretation of history, the course is taught from a Nordic perspective. Selected issues from Swedish and Nordic history are discussed in order to orient students in relevant discussions and arguments in historical theory. Students are also trained in historical argumentation based on scholarly foundations.

The course addresses the development of communism after World War II, focusing on the situation in Central and Eastern Europe. The aim is to study the development of communism during the Cold War, from the Yalta conference in 1945 to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, and its consequences in the 1990s and early twenty-first century. The subject is addressed from both genetic and genealogical perspectives.

This course gives a general introduction to embedded system design which can be implemented using System-on-Chip technology. This kind of embedded systems contains both hardware and software components and therefore a hardware/software co-design is emphasized. The course gives a basic knowledge on specification methods, design representations (computational models) as well as related design methods. Special emphasis is placed on interface synthesis and low-power design methods.

The course an overview of the major languages in the world, the families to which they belong, their structural characteristics and where they are spoken. Different accounts as to why languages resemble or differ from each other regarding grammar and sound systems are taken up and discussed. Explanations as to why the number of languages in the world is fast decreasing through language death are further examined. The course puts emphasis on practical exercises where students are trained in analyzing language structure and placing a language in a typological context on the basis of authentic data.