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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The course will present important theories and methods for analyzing labor markets and for understanding labor market research. The course emphasizes relationships between macro phenomena such as ...

Legal Technology refers to the use of technology, software and computer analytics to provide legal services and justice. It is increasingly transforming legal practice and institutions and the nature ...

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 ...

The course presents the international legal framework for women`s human rights with emphasis on basic principles such as equality and non-discrimination, freedom, integrity and dignity embedded in the ...