Summer schools

The Faculty of Humanities is offering the following summer school courses in Summer 2023 as part of the UCPH International Summer Programme.

• Dressing the World, Theory and Practice through 2000 Years
  Level: Bachelor and Master
  Credits: 15 ECTS
  Dates: 14 August - 25 August 2023 
  Textiles and fashion are essential aspects of the human condition. We dress, appear and communicate through fabrics and other kinds of bodily adornments. Over the course of time, we have changed our practices for the production, mediation and the use of textiles and fashion, as well as theories through which we conceive and perceive them. Dressing the World summer school provides a survey of the history of textile and fashion from prehistoric times to the present day in the geographical areas of Scandinavia, Europe and globally. The course focuses on different historic and cultural theories, with an emphasis on critical and analytical approaches to the field and, in the wider context, and explores the entanglement of textile and fashion in characterising cultures and societies.
  
  
• CANCELLED - Names and Naming Practices
  Level: Bachelor and Master   
  Credits: 7,5 ECTS
  Dates: 07 August - 17 August 2023 
  During this summer school students will learn about names and naming from a comparative, multidisciplinary perspective. Names constitute an essential part of cultural heritage. They are closely intertwined with the respective culture and reveal a great deal about the name-giving society. Names are primarily used to identify, they single out certain people, places or objects. However, consciously or unconsciously, names also contain a wide range of social connotations. Thus name choices directly reflect attitudes of language users towards the named entity. Despite their central position in language and communication, names rarely constitute an integral part of language studies. The summer school seeks to fill this gap. The course is open to Danish as well as international students and will be taught in English. It will be composed of lectures, workshops, and field trips in the Copenhagen area.
  
  
• FULLY BOOKED - Ways of Living: Danish Architecture & Urban Design (Copenhagen’s Walking Classroom, Summer 2023) 
  Level: Bachelor   
  Credits: 7.5 ECTS
  Dates: 31 July – 9 August 2023 (including weekends)
  In this two-week intensive summer course, the city of Copenhagen will be our primary classroom, with walking-lectures, sidewalk-seminars, independent field studies, and collegial debates being unfolded across a diversity of places within the metropolis. First-hand experiences, place-based interpretative discourses, on-site analyses, and critical readings will be entwined to support grounded ways of questioning and understanding the historical and contemporary Danish architecture and urban design cases at-hand. ‘Ways of living’, in this course, encompasses and addresses a diversity of human and nonhuman relationalities, and acknowledges that architecture and urban design are never stand-alone but are always parts of something both bigger and smaller than themselves. 
  
  
• History of Copenhagen w/Danish Language (Pre-semester course)
  Level: Bachelor    
  Credits: 7.5 ECTS
  Dates: 7 August – 27 August 2023 
  This course offers all international students at the University of Copenhagen an exciting and comprehensive introduction to the history of Copenhagen and to the Danish language. Over the course of three weeks, students will learn about the city’s history from its foundation in the early Middle Ages, when Copenhagen was just a fishing village, and through a millennium of history up to modern Copenhagen, often ranked as one of the best cities in the world when measured by quality of life. As well as covering the rich history of Copenhagen, the course also includes a number of lessons in Danish for beginners, where you will be introduced to the basics of the Danish language including conversation, grammar and pronunciation.
  
  
• Scandinavian Manuscript Studies
  Level: Master and Ph.D.
  Credits: 7.5 ECTS for Master students and 5 ECTS for Ph.D.
  Dates: 14 August - 23 August 2023
  The summer school in Scandinavian Manuscript Studies is a collaboration between the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies at the University of Iceland and the National and University Library of Iceland. It affords students a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience working with manuscripts under the guidance of researchers from these three institutions. Consisting of lectures, workshops, excursions and special presentations, the summer school offers its participants basic training in palaeography, codicology and transcription of manuscripts, as well as in-depth workshops on editorial technique and textual criticism.