Uppsala University

The course provides a basic introduction to studies of the relationship between natural science and religion with focus on the ability to reflect upon own conceptions and values. The course addresses how science and religion can contribute to answers of existential questions in human life. The course gives a general introduction to how natural science in contemporary society mediates and expresses worldviews and addresses issues how different religions relate to and are affected by theories in natural science, including physics and biology.

During the course students study primary sources from the Viking period from Sagas and chronicles to rune stones and material culture, and use classic textbooks to further their understanding of the Vikings.

The Celts once occupied large parts of Europe including areas such as modern France, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, and Britain. This course introduces the early history of the Celts and discovers what kind of society they had, including the king, the druids, the position of women, what the Greeks and Romans thought about the Celts, and Celtic mythology.

The course consists of two themes that are derived from connected dimensions of the relations between the exercise of state power and various identities and forms of organization in society in different regions in the global south: i) democracy, ii) political identities. The course discusses both these themes in relation to economic and social development. The first theme discusses forms of political rule and introduces different explanations of democracy and authoritarian rule. The theme also discusses theories of how these forms of political rule are related to levels of development. The second theme discusses how different political identities are connected to the organization of political institutions. This theme pays special attention to the question of how national identities are linked to other political identities based on gender, class, ethnicity, and religion, how identities affect and are affected by the organization of state institutions, and how this in turn is linked to issues of conflict and stability.

This course deals with communication processes in relation to organizing. It gives a historical review of how the perception of communication, organizations and organizing have changed from the early 1900s until today, presenting classical, modern and postmodern perspectives on organizing. 

This course provides students with basic knowledge of the Swedish political system, both on the input side (political participation, political parties, other political actors), its structure (constitution, electoral system), and its output side (over the last couple of years, primarily welfare and gender equality policies). It also discusses the historical development of these factors.