Lund University

An overview is given of a general communication link consisting of the three parts: transmitter, communication channel, and receiver. Examples of digital communication methods are introduced for realistic bit rates and noise levels. Some of the following applications are considered in the course: Mobile digital telephony (3G, EDGE, GSM), WLAN, modem, ADSL, digital TV, Bluetooth, navigation (GPS), surveillance systems.

This course develops knowledge of equality and diversity with a special focus on intersectionality. The course contains central theories and perspectives on diversity and equality. The course addresses how equality and diversity work is organized, developed, and run in different types of service organizations. These efforts reflect issues around individual situations and needs, which makes it doubly important to be able to understand and think critically about gender, ethnicity, sexuality, age, and functional impairment. The course gives space for both the critical analysis of organizational equality and diversity issues, as well as the application of theoretical tools to understand these.

The course focuses on the new media technologies that have emerged and spread from the time of the Second World War and onwards. A clear emphasis is on digital media and network cultures, as well as the broad influence of television. Highlighted themes are the cultural understanding of technological development, convergence culture and intermedial relations. Different aspects of media and communication as moral panic, paper bureaucracy and tourism are also discussed. Finally, the arguments of some of the most influential late 20th century media theorists such as Raymond Williams and Marshall McLuhan are analyzed.

The course gives an introduction to the archaeology of the southern Levant between the second millennium BCE and the first century CE, which often is called "biblical archaeology", and its relationship to the biblical texts. Through an overview of the historical and cultural context in which the biblical narratives was written down, the course gives an in-depth critical review of a selection of controversial narratives described in the literary sources and how they relate to archaeological findings and relics. The course also covers the importance of biblical archaeology both for exegesis, and the understanding of ancient Israel's history and how this influences politics and religion today.

The course covers the development of European integration after the Second World War with a special focus on questions concerning national and supranational identities and values. The aim is to study the EU's development from the time of the European Coal and Steel Community to the UK's withdrawal in 2020, partly chronologically, but also based on a present-day perspective.

The development of the Middle East and North Africa region is examined from an historical perspective. The course begins by exploring the major social, political, and cultural issues, events, and ideas which have shaped the region, primarily from the end of World War 1 until the present day. Particular attention is paid to the legacy of colonialism and the process of state-building, various inter-state conflicts and their domestic and regional consequences, the persistence of authoritarianism as well democratization efforts more recently. The course concludes by examining the Middle East and North Africa in the 21st century, including its changing place in the global political arena. The course is organized according to key events, themes as well as case studies.

This course introduces the foundations of classical mechanics based on the principle of least action with emphasis on symmetries and conservation laws as well as special relativity with emphasis on relativistic kinematics. In particular the following is included: the Lagrange formalism, the principle of least action, Euler Lagrange's equations; conservation laws and generalized coordinates; introduction to the Hamilton formalism; constraints and Lagrange multipliers; general treatment of the two-body problem and Kepler's laws; Lorentz transformations; and four-vectors and relativistic kinematics.