Norway

This course provides an overview of the field of microbiology, with a focus on terrestrial diversity. The course mainly covers prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbiology, with a focus on their metabolism, environmental methods, and diagnostics.

The course gives an introduction to group and ring theory with emphasis on finite groups, polynomial rings, and field extensions.

This course examines the interaction between humans and technology. On an applied level, it discusses how systems should be designed to promote the greatest possible degree of efficiency, safety, and health. The course largely focuses on complex socio-technical systems, such as control room systems, navigation in maritime environments, railway systems, and tunnels. It also considers the design of less complex systems such as websites and software, consumer electronics, and signage systems. The course discusses how human-technology interaction informs wider organizational systems, such as training, selection, reward systems, stress management programs, and deviation regulation. Risk and risk perception, as well as safety culture, are also central themes in the course. On a deeper academic level, the course is central to the study of consciousness, and forms part of a wider discussion within cognitive science.

This course provides deepened insight into English grammar and the linguistic analysis of English. There is a focus on syntactic description, analysis and argumentation, and on the relationship between linguistic form and grammatical function. Particular attention is given to the forms and functions of the noun phrase and the verb phrase as well as to clause structure and information packaging.

The course provides an introduction to selected topics in discrete mathematics; including graph theory, combinatorics, final bodies, and code theory.

This is an intermediate course in quantum mechanics with a focus on how to formulate quantum mechanical calculations. The course starts with the Dirac-notation and the fundamental postulates, then several important exactly solvable systems are treated. Finally, the course introduces various approximation methods.

The course focuses on individual, social, and societal challenges that social psychology can help to address through interventions. Examples of such challenges are promoting behavior change, improving well-being, managing diversity, and increasing justice and cooperation. The course helps students apply basic principles from social psychology to their field of interest, and to find, understand, interpret, and use more specialized, applied research findings. The course is graded on a P/NP basis only. 

This course focuses on couplings between biological, geological, and chemical processes; on the interactions between climate and the environment; and human impacts on these processes. It covers the development of the biosphere on Earth and the major biogeochemical interactions in air, land, and water; the biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur, and mercury; the major processes governing these cycles and how these cycles are linked; why and how the biogeochemical system is changing; and how climate and biogeochemical processes mutually interact. The course develops skills in calculation of chemical speciation by use of a speciation program, as well as the ability to perform simple mass balance calculations. 

This course provides an introduction to numerical methods for solving problems in physics and chemistry, including methods for solving ordinary and partial differential equations, matrix operations and eigenvalue problems, numerical integration, Monte Carlo methods, and modeling. The course also covers a short and hands-on introduction to programming in C++ and version control with git, and provides training in how to write a scientific report.