The course consists of lectures led by researchers and practitioners in combination with applied exercises. To begin with, the lectures treat fundamental perspectives, theories and concepts related to organizational change and…

Strategic communication has traditionally relied on the intuition acquired by skillful practitioners in long years of experience and exposure. However, as communicative interventions take place in multi-faceted digital media landscapes,…

The aim of the course is to provide the student with theoretical knowledge and practical skills within public affairs. The course attends public affairs’ role for organizations and society, both nationally and internationally. The first…

The aim of the course is to provide the student with theoretical knowledge of brand culture. In the course we trace the development of brands in relation to historical and sociocultural shifts in society. Emphasis is placed on brands as…

The aim of this course is to develop the student’s strategic skills in mitigating issues and managing crises that organizations encounter. This course places crisis communication in organizational, social, and global contexts. The course…

The aim of the course is to provide the student with theoretical knowledge and practical skills within applied visual communication. The first part of the course deals with the design process and different design methods for…

During the course, you complete an internship of at least 16 weeks of full-time work, or 32 hours per week for 20 weeks. With the support of a tutor on placement, you will work with qualified and varied communication tasks of both…

As an applied field of study strategic communication touches upon many different theories from within and outside communication science. Some of the most widely used theories have their roots in classic traditions such as speech act theory…

The course consists of three components which taken together introduce key issues of globalisation and postcolonial theory in relation to visual culture. Furthermore, the course examines the way in which critical and creative practices…

The course covers issues related to the human body and its status in modern and contemporary society, with particular regard to the display, representation, exposure, and invisibilisation of the body in different societal, cultural and…

Christianity has a special relationship to nationalism and modern statecraft, and thereby politics, because both the notion of nation and the modern political systems have evolved in dialogue or at times fundamental conflict with…

The course gives a basic understanding of concepts within the field of semantics and pragmatics. Various traditions are illuminated, both theoretically and through the execution of problem-based exercises. Among these traditions are…

In this course the student will systematically get acquainted with basic concepts of speech acoustics, such as frequency, resonance, filtering, tones and formants, using different sound illustrations. In laboratory exercises the student…

In this course the student will get to know a wide variety of strategies by means of which different languages deal with the same communicative needs (e.g. question formation, relativization, distinguishing subject and object, mapping…

In this course the student will get introduced to general principles and parameters which characterise feasible phonetic systems in human languages. Principles which control phonological representations such as sound categorisation,…

The aim of the course is to provide in-depth knowledge on how speech is generated and perceived. The muscles of the speech apparatus and their role in speech gestures are studied, as well as the basics of aerodynamics. Speech gestures …

This course introduces the linguistic student to research methods and methodological issues, and prepares the student for writing an essay on B.A. level. The course includes methodological issues such as formulating research questions, the…

This course offers basic knowledge of the area psycholinguistics, which covers language processing and language acquisition. The goal is that you should deepen your knowledge in theories of how we produce, perceive and understand language…

The course deals with methods dealing with the description of language change over time and space and with the establishment of the link between genetically related languages and the reconstruction of hypothetically previous stages in…

Psycholinguistics deals with the empirical testing of various theories of language production, perception and acquisition. The course offers an introduction to several experimental methods, including reaction time experiments, measurements…

The course deals with one of the most multifaceted aspects of linguistic research: the uncovering of new language data by means of linguistic fieldwork. It gives an introduction to (1) purposes and aims of linguistic fieldwork, e.g…

The course provides an overview of different theories of the nature of language, and consequently on the nature of linguistics (e.g. structuralism, generative linguistics, cognitive linguistics, communicative theories of language). Central…

Human languages differ structurally across several different dimensions, and various grammatical theories have been developed to explain and describe this diversity. The course addresses a variety of construction types across the world's…

The course deals with current interdisciplinary research on the origins of language. Focus is placed on the relationship between biological and cultural evolution and physiological and neural conditions for language from the perspective of…

In this course, the main goal is to give you a solid understanding of Viking Age culture. We'll explore how this culture is portrayed in both historical sources from that time and interpretations made in the past couple of centuries. We'll…

The course examines literature and other media as important sources of intercultural understanding. Works from both within and beyond the Western world are therefore included. The course studies processes and contexts which are brought to…

The student selects three to four periods in the history of Russian literature for individual study. The selection is made from the following periods: The Enlightenment (the 18th century), The Golden Age of poetry (1800-1830), Realist…

The course consists of a study of a selection of English literary works taken from the period from the Renaissance to the present day. These works are selected to ensure that a range of genres and themes are represented so as to provide…

The course examines a number of theoretical approaches which have been dominant in both Swedish and international literary research in recent years. They are introduced in a concrete manner in connection to various issues that have been…

The course focuses on a number of key post-Wall German novels, especially novels from the 1990s which directly or indirectly highlight historical events after the fall of the Wall and the German reunification. The novels are studied in…

The course focuses on a number of key post-war German novels, especially novels from the 1950s and the literary situation related to the influential Gruppe 47. The novels are studied in detail against the background of the political and…

The course is divided into two halves, the first covers probability theory and the second covers statistics. The course covers: Sample space, Events, Basic set theory, Axioms of probability. Conditional probability, Independent events…

Basic probability theory, random variables in one and several dimensions, multivariate Gaussian distribution, convergence of random variables and distributions, conditional distributions. Moment generating functions and characteristic…

Factorization Theorem, exponential families, Rao-Blackwell's theorem, ancillary estimators, Cramér Rao's inequality, Neyman-Pearson's Lemma, permuation tests, interrelations between hypothesis testing and confidence intervals, asymptotic…

The course gives theory and methodology of how to model, design and evaluate experiments. Important concepts are: Simple comparative experiments. Analysis of variance; transformations, model validation and residual analysis. Factorial…

The course treats: Markov chains: model graphs, Markov property, transition probabilities, persistent and transient states, positive and null persistent states, communication, existence and uniqueness of stationary distribution, and…

The course treats stochastic processes in discrete and continuous time. The main elements are: Models for stochastic dependence.Concepts of description of stationary stochastic processes in the time domain: expectation, covariance, and…

The student chooses in consultation with supervisors and examiner an independentexamination assignment comprising 15 credits. The assignment can either be linked tocurrent scientific projects at the Division of Mathematical Statistics or…