Scandinavian history

 7.5 ECTS credits
Scandinavia is known internationally for today聮s welfare states, and as the historic homeland of the Vikings. This course offers a broader understanding of Scandinavia's past, highlighting the dramatic events that transformed a peripheral European region into modern industrial nations. Themes explored in the course include debilitating poverty, ruthless autocracies with colonies in four continents, civil war, and volcanic eruptions, but also intercultural encounters, science, and democratic breakthroughs. The course covers Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, and Icelandic history from the Viking age onwards, and provides knowledge of the politics, demography, religion, economy, and culture of the region. There is a special focus on state building, conflicts and conflict resolution, migration and minorities, as well as cultural developments in the Nordic countries.

Instruction is in the form of lectures, which provide overviews of Scandinavian history, and seminars.

Progressive specialisation: A1N (has only first鈥恈ycle course/s as entry requirements)
Education level: Master's level
Admission requirements
90 ECTS credits completed, with at least 30 ECTS credits at the G2F level or higher, in one of the following main areas: History, History of ideas, Cultural studies, Religion, Political science, Social science, Ethnology, Archeology, Sociology, or Human geography, plus upper secondary level Swedish 3 and English 6, or equivalent
Selection:

Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.

This course is included in the following programme

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Campus, 50% Options
  • Start Autumn 2024
  • Mode of study Campus
  • Language English
  • Course code HIA720
  • Application code KAU-44825
  • Study pace 50% (Day)
  • Study period week 36鈥45
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