Course catalogue autumn 2018

Below you will find the autumn 2018 courses for international exchange and guest students at the Faculty of Humanities. All courses in the catalogue are taught either in English or in another foreign language.

Courses might be chosen at another level than listed below, i.e. master level (MA) courses might be attended by bachelor students and lead to bachelor level (BA) exams. Some courses may have prerequisites. Please enquire further at the department guidance centres about special conditions.

See how to apply for courses taught in Danish (text in Danish).

Courses within Scandinavian culture, language and history aimed specifically at international exchange and guest students

• Danish Culture Courses
• Danish Language Courses
• Academic English/Writing
• Modern Nordic Arts and Culture

Courses aimed at both international exchange and guest students and domestic students

• Art History
• Central Asia and Afghanistan Studies
• China Studies
• Cognition and Communication
• East European Studies
• English Studies 
• Film and Media Studies
• French Studies
• German Studies
• History
• Information Science and Cultural Communication
• Islamic Studies
• IT & Cognition
• Italian Studies
• Japan Studies
• Korean Studies
• Middle Eastern Language and Society
• Modern Culture
• Modern India and South Asian Studies
• Near Eastern Archaeology
• Philosophy
• Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
• Prehistoric Archaeology
• Religious Studies
• Spanish Studies

Academic English/Writing

Offered by Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use (CIP).

• Workshop in English Academic Writing  (BA)
• Presentation Techniques for Undergraduate Students  (BA)
• English Academic Writing  (BA)
• Academic English  (BA)
• Presentation Techniques for graduate students  (MA)
• Academic writing for graduate students  (MA)

For information on course content, course registration and -withdrawal please refer to  their website. 

Art History

Offered by the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies.

• Anthropology of Image (IX): PROFANATIONS (BA/MA)
• Contemporary Art and Introduction to Art Historical Praxis (BA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

Central Asia and Afghanistan Studies

Offered by the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. 

• Islam in Central Asia: from everyday Islam to radical movements (BA/MA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

China Studies

Offered by the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. 

• China's borderlands (BA/MA)
• Introduction to the History, Culture and Society of China (BA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

Cognition and Communication

Offered by the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication. 

• Introduction to Cognitive Science (MA) - very few seats. Only for students with a background within Philosophy or Film and Media Studies
• Communication Theory and Empirical Methodologies (MA) - very few seats. Only for students with a background within Philosophy or Film and Media Studies

Enrolled students can find information about course registration at the department study site (intranet).

Danish Culture Courses

Part of the Saxo-Institute. These courses are open to all international students regardless of their field of study. 

• DCC Course in Danish Culture (BA)
• DCC Danish Architecture and Urban Design (BA)
• DCC Danish Cinema (BA)
• DCC Gender and Sexuality Studies (BA)
• DCC Nordic Mythology (BA)
• DCC Søren Kierkegaard and the Challenge of Existence (BA)

For more information please visit the Danish Culture Courses website.

Danish Language Courses

Part of the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics. These courses are open to all international students regardless of their field of study. 

• Pre-Semester Danish Language Courses
• Semester Danish Language Courses

For more information please visit the Danish Language Course website.

East European Studies

Offered by the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. 

• Geopolitics and culture in the post-Soviet context: Russia and its neighbors (BA/MA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

English Studies

Offered by the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies.

NB The following requirements apply when choosing courses: BA-students can choose only one Elective 1 If BA students need more than 15 ECTS with English Studies, they can choose an MA course.

• Postcolonial Literature and Theory (BA)
• Elective 1, topic 1: Introduction to American Studies (BA)
• Elective 1, topic 2: Introduction to American Studies (BA)
• Elective 1, topic 3: The Great War: Society, experience and memory (BA)
• Elective 1, topic 4: Contemporary American Society (BA)
• Elective 1, topic 5: American Civil War and Reconstruction (BA)
• Free topic 2: World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca (BA/MA)
• Free topic 3: The American Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (BA/MA)
• Free topic 4: Migration Histories, Migration Stories: London and New York City (BA/MA)
• Free topic 5: Time in Victorian Literature + New Literature, Media and Time (BA/MA)
• Free topic 6: Recent American Non-Fiction and Multi-Ethnic Perspectives on 9/11 (BA/MA)
• Free topic 7: Perspectives on Language Variation (BA/MA)
• Free topic 8: Sing, Unburried, Sing: Jesmin Ward’s Writing, 2008-2018 and Gender Studies and Anglo-American Literature (BA/MA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

Film and Media Studies

Offered by the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication. 

• Analysis of Digital Media (BA)
• Scandinavian Film & TV (BA)
• Organizational and institutional analysis: Digital Media: (Infra)structure, Labour and Inequalities (MA) - only for students with a BA in film and/or media studies
• Organizational and institutional analysis: Authorship, Regulation, and Cultural Heritage (MA) - only for students with a BA in film and/or media studies
• Organizational and institutional analysis - Lectures (MA) - only for students with a BA in film and/or media studies
• Media, Genre and Aesthetics: Fake news, fake worlds: Media, populism and authoritarianism (MA) - only for students with a BA in film and/or media studies
• Media, Genre and Aesthetics: Celebrification: Celebrity cultures and celebrity genres across media (MA) - only for students with a BA in film and/or media studies
• Media, Genre and Aesthetics: Ageing in media (MA) - only for students with a BA in film and/or media studies

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

French Studies

Offered by the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies. All courses at French Studies are taught in French.

• Free topic 1: Langue française : usages actuels et conscience linguistique (BA/MA)
• Free topic 2: Roland Barthes dans l’histoire intellectuelle française (BA/MA)
• Free Topic A: Langue française : usages actuels et conscience linguistique + Roland Barthes dans l’histoire intellectuelle française (BA/MA)
• Situation adapted communication (BA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

German Studies

Offered by the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies. All courses at German Studies are taught in German.

• Free topic 1: Tendenzen österreichischer Literatur nach 1945 (BA/MA)
• Free topic 2: Transnationale Beziehungen im Alternativmilieu zwischen Deutschland und Dänemark 1968-1985 (BA/MA)
• Free topic A: Deutsche Nachbarn (BA/MA)
• German History 3 (BA)
• German History of Literature (BA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

History

Part of the Saxo-Institute.

• The American Century (BA/MA)
• Enlightenment in Denmark, Scandinavia, and Europe: Contexts, Ideas, and Practices (BA/MA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

Information Science and Cultural Communication

Offered by the Department of Information Studies. Undergraduate students in their final year may register for courses at Master's level subject to availability.

• Filtering Technology and Filter Bubbles (MA)
• Information and Cultural Studies’ Theories and Traditions (MA)
• Knowledge Organization (MA)
• Information Ethics and Privacy (BA/MA)
• Records and information management (BA/MA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

Islamic Studies

Offered by the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. 

• Muslims and Islam in the West (BA/MA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

IT and Cognition

Offered by the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics. Specific prerequisites regarding e.g. programming are required for the courses listed below. Please enquire through the department study site for further information.

• Cognitive Science 1 (MA)
• Language Processing 1 (MA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the the department study site (intranet).

Italian Studies

Offered by the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies. All courses at Italian Studies are taught in Italian.

• Memorie individuali e collettive: dall’Holocaust di Primo Levi al postcolonialismo di Igiaba Scego (BA/MA)
• La lotta sociale e identita’ politica, ieri e oggi (BA/MA)
• La lotta sociale e identita’ politica, ieri e oggi + Memorie individuali e collettive: dall’Holocaust di Primo Levi al postcolonialismo di Igiaba Scego (BA/MA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

Japan Studies

Offered by the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. 

• History and culture of Japan after 1945 (BA)
• Meiji Japan in Global Perspective (BA/MA)
• China's borderlands (BA/MA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

Korean Studies

Offered by the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. 

• Introduction to Korean Literature (BA)
• Introduction to Korean Studies, premodern (BA)
• Newest Developments in Korean Studies: Science Fiction, Food, Crime, Christianity (BA)
• Korean Language B: Modern Translation (BA)
• China's borderlands (BA/MA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

Middle Eastern Language and Society

Offered by the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. 

• Islam on the Balkans (BA)
• Past and heritage: concepts, uses, current threats in the Middle East (BA)
• Minorities in the Muslim World (MA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

Modern Culture

Offered by the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies.

• Cultural and conflicting policies in the posthuman condition (MA)
• Cultural Policy – Theory, Method & Analysis (MA)
• Analysis of Architecture and Urban Spaces (BA/MA)
• Urban Culture and Cultural Theory (BA/MA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

Modern India and South Asian Studies

Offered by the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. 

• Introduction to the formation of modern South Asia (BA)
• The modern South Asian Politics (BA)
• South Asian Cultures (BA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

Modern Nordic Arts and Culture

Offered by the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies.

• Modern Nordic Art, Visual Culture, Architecture and Urbanity  (BA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).  

Near Eastern Archaeology

Offered by the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. 

• Introduction to Near Eastern History and Archaeology (BA)
• Analyses of plant macroremains in Archaeology (BA/MA)
• From the Origins of Agriculture to the Dawn of the State (BA/MA)
• Ancient Near Eastern Religions (BA/MA)
• International Presentation (MA)
• Theory and Method in Near Eastern Archaeology (MA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

Philosophy

Offered by the Department of Media, Cognition and Communications. 

NB The following requirements apply when choosing courses:
Only for exchange students with at least 30 ECTS within Philosophy

• Science and Society (BA/MA)
• Pluralism: How to Navigate a Multitude of Values and Beliefs in Liberal Democracies (BA/MA)
• Consciousness naturalized (BA/MA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

Offered by the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies.

NB All courses are taught in Portuguese and English

• Debates and voices in Portuguese society (BA)
• Discourse and identity (BA)
• Film, media and the arts in Portuguese in a globalized world (BA)
• Introduction to Area Studies (BA)
• Introduction to the Portuguese-speaking world (BA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

Prehistoric Archaeology

Offered by the Saxo Institute.

• Advanced Archaeological Methods (MA)
• Scandinavian Archaeology - Past and Present (MA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

Religious Studies

Offered by the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. 

• Ancient Near Eastern Religions

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

Spanish Studies

Offered by the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies. All courses at Spanish Studies are taught in Spanish.

• Use and Variation in Present-Day Spanish (MA)
• Free topic: Relaciones internacionales (BA/MA)
• Interpersonel language (BA)
• Sociopragmatics (BA)

Enrolled students can find information about course registration etc. at the department study site (intranet).

Contact: the Department Student Guidance Centers