Lectures and seminars are given in English. All parts of the exam may be taken either in English or a Scandinavian language. In this course we will study aspects of the cultural history of magic, ...

Development Economics addresses development issues for poor countries. The course aims at explaining the causes and effects of poverty and deriving policy implications. The course is based on ...

This course provides a theoretical and empirical introduction to religion as a sociological phenomenon, religious fundamentalism, extremism, and violence. We will discuss theoretical perspectives, ...

This course focuses on the application of high performance computing (HPC) to bioinformatics analysis. The main target is to provide a background on how to effectively use HPC clusters for running ...

South Korea, erstwhile consumer of the imported films, music and comics books from USA and Japan, has succeeded during the last decades in developing a formidable popular culture industry. In addition ...

We are witnessing an explosive rise in the popularity of the blockchain paradigm, the technology that enables cooperative economic models without a central administrator. While originally inspired by ...

The course gives an overview of the fundamental models that are used to describe excitations of atomic nuclei. The emphasis is on concepts and phenomenological descriptions, without deriving stringent ...

Financial Markets Law and Regulation matters to us all. It is about our payments, mortgages, banking, other forms of savings and pensions. It is also about Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the shares ...

This course provides an overview of American history, culture, politics, and contemporary society. It traces major developments and changes from the pre-Columbian period to the present. It will ...

This course examines conceptions of equality and equity related to educational policies and practices and how these interplay with globalization and current social changes. The themes of the course ...

We experience the most significant moments of our lives in small groups and subcultures: families, sports teams, romantic partners, working groups, friendship groups, musical subcultures, sports ...

This course gives an introduction into the ethnography of East and Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on current research interests related to that region. The course approaches East and Southeast Asia ...