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51014742-2282-4ae4-803e-fc0fbff3c1c1

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SCANDINAVIA'S COLONIAL ENTANGLEMENTS: HISTORICAL-ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Country
Sweden
Host Institution
Lund University
Program(s)
Lund University
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Scandinavian Studies History Archaeology Anthropology
UCEAP Course Number
108
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
SCANDINAVIA'S COLONIAL ENTANGLEMENTS: HISTORICAL-ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
UCEAP Transcript Title
SCAND COLONIAL HIST
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description

The course focuses on the Scandinavian colonial expansion from 1600 to the early 20th century. Based on a number of case studies (e.g. resource colonialism in Sápmi and Greenland, plantations in the Danish West Indies, trade and consumption of colonial products), the course examines colonial discourses and practice and notice relationships between colonialism and resources/environment, economics, power, resistance and science and colonial inheritance. The course also explores the different cultural processes, such as creolisation, othering and ambivalence that takes place in colonial environments and manifests itself in material culture. The course introduces theoretical procedures for historical-archaeological studies of colonialism and presents different sources, methods and perspectives and central research questions.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
SASH94
Host Institution Course Title
SCANDINAVIA'S COLONIAL ENTANGLEMENTS: HISTORICAL-ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Host Institution Campus
Lund
Host Institution Faculty
Humanities and Theology
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department

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VIKING CULTURE THEN AND NOW
Country
Sweden
Host Institution
Lund University
Program(s)
Lund University
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Sociology Scandinavian Studies History Comparative Literature
UCEAP Course Number
119
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
VIKING CULTURE THEN AND NOW
UCEAP Transcript Title
VIKING CULTURE
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description

This course provides basic knowledge of the culture of the Viking Age, such as it is presented in contemporary sources and in interpretations and applications from the past two centuries with a special focus on how this culture has gained considerable importance then and in modern times, in the Viking homelands, and the surrounding world. The course provides skills in interpreting, understanding and discussing certain contemporary sources both written (Old Norse literature, rune inscriptions, chronicles) and archaeological, and to analyze the nature of Viking culture's depiction in high and popular culture in fiction, film, media, monuments and cultural-political contexts with a certain emphasis on its relationship with the romantic tradition. The course highlights how the modern spread of Viking culture has been marked by academic and political disagreements.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
LIVD02
Host Institution Course Title
VIKING CULTURE THEN AND NOW
Host Institution Campus
Lund
Host Institution Faculty
Humanities and Theology
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Centre for Languages and Literature
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