The course deals with contemporary African political, economic and cultural contexts. Issues of post-colonialism and globalization, democracy and development are highlighted here. A particularly important theme is global health.

The course introduces African cultural expressions and artistic creation. Here, traditions from different cultural and linguistic areas as well as social and political movements are noticed and compared. A special focus is placed on African film.

The course orients you to Afro-Swedish relations in the past and present. The section deals with racism and afrophobia, culture and culture creation, collaborations (research, associations of friends, aid), African role models and stereotypes and migration and diaspora.

The aim of the course is to provide understanding of anthropological perspectives on the human life cycle, socio-cultural aspects of health and disease, health problems in different cultural settings, and beliefs in and practices of various types of treatments in different cultures. The course emphasises transcultural communication as a means of overcoming cultural biases. The aim shall be reached by integrating theory and practice, connecting with research and giving the students the opportunity to get in contact with people from different cultures. Research methodology in cultural care and medical anthropology is integrated in the course.

The aim of the course is to present anthropological perspectives on the study of war and armed conflicts. The course focuses on socio-cultural processes that characterise different stages of armed conflicts. The course covers local phenomena, such as gender, children in war, and refugees, in relation to global phenomena such as media coverage, international aid policies and arms trade.

Most of the world's organismal diversity is found in the sea and it is a diverse and a relatively unexploited, but potentially large, resource for areas such as pharmacology and biotechnology. The marine organisms live in (and are adapted to) a variety of habitats that have no counterparts in terrestrial and freshwater environments. In this course, Marine Biology, with the subtitle Organisms and Biotopes, you have the opportunity to further familiarise yourself with these organisms and environments, and immerse yourself in this field.The course addresses the marine organisms (with an emphasis on animals, but also other marine groups, including microbes, are included), their diversity and their different ways of adaptation to their environments. We also deal with various marine habitats (from deep sea and pelagic to coral reefs, but with a slight emphasis on the Scandinavian conditions) and the composition of the organism communities, and diverse marine biogeographic patterns. You will also be confronted with the problems of studying marine organisms and making inventories of marine environments, and you will learn techniques and methods for this.The course contains many practical elements, including a project, and a large part of the course will take place at Klubban Biological Station in Fiskebäckskil, Bohuslän, on the Swedish west coast.

The course provides basic knowledge of the nervous system, from cells and synapses to complex processes such as cognition. The emphasis is on the neurobiology of mammals, especially on humans, but comparative studies are also included as an important part. The course also includes the sensory systems, learning and memory, emotions, behavior, appetite regulation, brain diseases, the brain's reward system and brain aging.

The course focuses on opportunities and challenges created by globalisation. It examines the global business environment and strategic, managerial and organisational issues related to doing business in an international marketplace. The aim of the course is to enable students to better analyse and understand the opportunities and challenges that companies face when operating with a global footprint. The course is divided in to three key themes. The first one scrutinises the global business environment on different levels, the second one is devoted to the strategic challenges confronting firms that compete in the global economy, and the third deals with international management operations and covers an array of organisational issues.

The goal of the course is accomplished through lectures and discussions based on playing the business simulation, Markstrat. Each team of three to four participants competes against each other to successfully pilot their company over a multi-year period. The name of the game isn’t just tactics, but long-term strategy. Because decisions are made over an eight-to-twelve year period, teams are forced to not only plan for short-term profits, but long-term objectives.

This course provides the foundations of a broad understanding of the main theories, discourses and academic debates in Journalism Studies. The course also elaborates on the roles and challenges for journalism in a globalized and changing media environment. It is structured around four thematic areas: i. news production, ii. news content, iii. journalism and society, iv. contemporary trends in news media. The more general discussion of Journalism Studies is complemented by two smaller modules focused on the ethical dimension of journalism and on investigative journalism.

Uzbek is one of the largest Turkish languages ​​in Central Asia. The course provides an introduction to the essentials of the modern Uzbek Latin writing system, sound and morphology, and some skills in applying this knowledge. The course provides a first overview of the position of Uzbek in the Turkish language family.

The course provides in-depth knowledge of vertebrates, with emphasis on species knowledge and the ability to determine Swedish vertebrates in the field. The course includes species identification of almost all Swedish vertebrates, as well as knowledge of their distribution, habitat requirements and general biology (food choices, tracks, sounds, migration and breeding ecology). Parts of the exam will be held in the field.

The course concerns Swedish economic and social development from 1750 to the present. The focus is on which factors played a role in the country's development and change. Agricultural development, industrialisation, the development of finance and big business, and the development and character of the "welfare state" are dealt with during the course.

The aim of the course is to gain knowledge to identify and valuate key issues in the Swedish educational reform policies in modern history. You should, after the course, be able to use key issues in Swedish educational policies in analyses of educational systems.

On completion of the course, you should have provided advanced knowledge about special needs education - and research fields in different countries. You are expected independently to be able to compare and analyse different special needs education, teaching and research in some countries - compare and analyse different special needs educational measures (such as action programmes and similar) analyse and problematise contents of the special needs education teaching in different countries from both practical and scholarly point of view.

The course deals with courtly love poetry in Irish from the 14th century to the 17th century. The course provides a background to the origin of this poetic tradition, its themes and conventions and its development. These aspects are also placed in a wider, European context. All texts are read in English translation.

This course introduces basic ecological principles that are relevant to today's climate change. The purpose is to provide students with a background in science, humanities, economics and the social, technical and political sciences with the necessary biological knowledge to be able to participate in the debate and management of climate issues. The overarching question is how climate change affects biological processes from the individual level to the ecosystem level. The course aims to develop a mechanistic understanding of how changes in climate affect species and ecosystems and how ecosystem processes in turn affect the climate.

Our landscape is constantly changing under the influence of natural processes, which can be slow or fast. Large-scale changes occur when the earth's plates move slowly in relation to each other, collide and disintegrate and form new mountain ranges. Over time, the mountains were chemically and physically worn down by water, gravity and living organisms under constantly new climatic conditions. In this way, new, smaller landforms are formed, such as river valleys, moraine ridges and dunes.

The course has two overarching goals. The first is to deepen your knowledge and understanding of the 'collective action dilemma' from a social science perspective. The second goal is to acquaint you with two important, and interdependent, global problems: climate change and energy. As a corollary to these two goals the course will also analyse and discuss possible political solutions to the management of climate and energy issues (as well as dilemmas over natural resources more generally). To this end, the course will examine possible solutions at the local, regional, and international levels.

At the global and the regional level, emphasis will be placed on international cooperation on climate change and the European Union's role in the struggle to combat climate change. At the local level, the course will focus on how energy and climate politics are played out in developing countries. Upon the completion of this course you are expected to thoroughly understand the interface between politics and the challenge of addressing environmental problems and managing limited natural resources.

This course examines development economics with a feminist lens. It describes how economic growth and economic development have differential impact on men, women and on gender equality. Based on theoretical perspectives from feminist economics and on human development, the course will describe and assess the impact of policy solutions and aid projects.

This course provides an overview of the origin and evolution of life on Earth. Major themes include, among others, the Cambrian world, the Palaeozoic seas, the invasion of land, the rise of the reptiles, the Tertiary world, and the rise of primates and Man. In the demonstrations we will explore the unique collections of fossil and living vertebrates stored in the Museum of Evolution.

The course is an introduction to the Evolution of the Earth and Life, with special reference to the Age of Dinosaurs and covers the origin and evolution of dinosaurs and other vertebrates of the Mesozoic world, as well as the extinction of dinosaurs. The demonstrations are held in the Museum of Evolution, Scandinavia's largest collection of dinosaurs and giant fossil reptiles.

The central aim of this unit is to understand how specific historical events have shaped debates on development in colonial and post-colonial contexts. The course is structured in the following way. We will analyse one development issue, historically, conceptually and theoretically and then understand its (post)colonial continuities through an empirical case study.We will analyse historical continuities and convergences with contemporary events, ranging from global 'war on terror', the rise of new forms of nationalism, cycles of poverty and deprivation and armed conflict. Focusing primarily on the global South, the unit will draw empirical examples from Africa, the Middle East, South and South East Asia and Latin America. A distinct feature of this course is that it draws on literature from different sources and is not confined to mainstream academic literature. For example, we will look at news media, documentaries, movies, policy reports, biographical narratives and historical texts together with the assigned mandatory readings.

Sophie Scholl left her classes to secretly distribute pamphlets against Adolf Hitler; eleven-year-old Malala Yousafzai lived amidst the Taliban while blogging about their brutality. Human history is filled with individuals who were ready to risk everything for a common good. What motivated them? What were the effects of their civic courage? What can our bravest contemporaries and fallen heroes teach us about how to live? The course includes in-class interviews with courageous guests.

The course explores how gender (masculinity and femininity) is given different meanings during different time periods and how gender interacts with other categories. The course is thematic and covers a long period of time and several different geographical regions, but the focus is on European history. The course wants to promote the development of independent and analytical thinking by the students reading articles on various topics. Through the course, the student develops a deeper understanding of the role gender played in history and in addition increase his ability to think critically by examining and assessing historical arguments.

The purpose of the course is to introduce exchange students to concepts, theories and perspectives concerning migration, minorities and multicultural aspects in Swedish history. The focus of the course is on people moving to, from and within Sweden, and on relations between the majority and minorities, such as the Sami and Roma peoples, in society.

The course provides an introduction to Swedish History by outlining in broad terms the period from 550 to 2000 and providing a closer look at a few specific issues of different periods.
The following themes are dealt with: The Viking Era
The formation of Sweden as a nation. The Middle Ages
The Great Power Era. Sweden in the 17th Century
The Age of Freedom and the Gustavian Era
A new society emerges. Sweden in the 19th Century
20th century Sweden and comparative history

This course provides the foundations of a broad understanding of the main theories, discourses and academic debates in Journalism Studies. The course also elaborates on the roles and challenges for journalism in a globalized and changing media environment. It is structured around four thematic areas: i. news production, ii. news content, iii. journalism and society, iv. contemporary trends in news media. The more general discussion of Journalism Studies is complemented by two smaller modules focused on the ethical dimension of journalism and on investigative journalism.

The course intends to give an introduction to language change from a historical perspective and knowledge of the more important theories of language change.

The course provides a knowledge of theoretical models concerning the organisation of language in the brain (i.e. the functional anatomy of language) and a knowledge of phonology, grammar, semantics, lexicon, discourse and pragmatics from a neurolinguistic perspective. Theories of these levels of language and their relationship with the brain are discussed. Further subjects included are brain networks used in understanding and producing spoken and written language, and gestures and other non-verbal communication. The course also discusses multilingualism from a neurolinguistic perspective. Students practise obtaining, evaluating and critically discussing brain research on linguistic representations in the brain and language processing in healthy individuals.

This course provides you with a broad historical and cultural historical knowledge about the Near East, from the time when people began gathering in permanent settlements up until the beginning of the Common Era. We study the different cultures which inhabited the region, from the east coast of the Mediterranean, through Syria, Iraq, southern Turkey, all the way to Iran. Over eight lessons we see how trade, ideas and technologies, migration and conflicts connected people across the region and beyond. Two of the lessons concentrate on cultural historical subjects such as literature and religious conceptions. The earliest state formations in Iraq and eastern Syria, Sumer, Babylonia and Assyria, are the main focus. The most variegated source materials in the region are found here which shed light on the living conditions of the people, on their beliefs, as well as on the historical developments at large, due to the combination of archaeological findings and hundreds of thousands of clay tablets with cuneiform writing which have been preserved until our time.

How do plants work? How and why did they get their properties? These are the most important issues addressed during the course. The emergence of conductive tissue, that is, the ability to actively transport water and photosynthesis products, and the emergence of the flower are two evolutionary events that, in the end, have been crucial in shaping all land-based life we ​​know today. The course is based on these and other important evolutionary innovations and examines them in detail in terms of function, history and development.

Comparative Central European Politics focuses on the comparative study of the four formerly communist Central European countries, commonly referred to as the Visegrad Group. The course draws upon students' basic knowledge of current and classic themes of comparative politics and takes these to the next level by analysing how applicable they are to the region under study where democratic institutions are young. It focuses on historical and current developments in Central Europe, looking in particular at how the legacy of Communist rule shaped the creation of a particular type of political institutions and political actors.

The course looks at and compares the systems of legislatures, executives in the four countries and analyses the role of the fragile judiciary systems in the region. Among other topics covered are corruption, democratisation, mass protesting, party development as well as changing values. The course briefly looks at the backlash in the European integration process and rise of populism and far-right movements in the region.

In this course we have chosen to focus on some central research problems in comparative politics. The overall problems concern democracy, conflicts, institutions (rules), tolerance, justice and development. These are chosen because important parts of research in political science concern these issues, and also because these issues are important to many people in many countries; two overriding criteria for any research or teaching in social science. The course is divided into four themes:

Political tolerance and democracy
The decline of democracy
Political activism
Classics of comparative politics
The choice of theme(s) and literature is a conscious attempt to bridge the unfortunate divide between studies of the West and ""the rest"". The idea is that we can learn more about industrialised countries, former socialist countries and so-called low- or middle income countries not by separating them, but by studying them together.

This course gives an introduction to the comparative study of welfare state regimes, especially discussing the effect of welfare state regimes on social inequality. It takes its starting-point in Gøsta Esping-Andersen's well-known typology of welfare regimes, and then proceeds into (some of) the various strands of research that explicitly or implicitly build on this typology.

The course consists of two themes that are derived from connected dimensions of the relations between the exercise of state power and various identities and forms of organisation in society in different regions in the global south: i) democracy, ii) political identities. The course discusses both these themes in relation to economic and social development.

The first theme discusses forms of political rule, and introduces different explanations of democracy and authoritarian rule. The theme also discusses theories of how these forms of political rule are related to levels of development. The second theme discusses how different political identities are connected to the organisation of political institutions. This theme pays special attention to the question of how national identities are linked to other political identities based on gender, class, ethnicity and religion, how identities affect and are affected by the organisation of state institutions, and how this in turn is linked to issues of conflict and stability.

This course provides you with a deeper introduction to the conceptual and theoretical tools used in the study of international politics. The course also examines a number of enduring and contemporary topics in international relations, such as international cooperation, security issues, nuclear proliferation, arms control, environmental politics, foreign policy analysis, warning-response problems and humanitarian intervention. The course concludes with a role-playing game where students have the opportunity to apply the concepts they have learned by engaging in simulated international negotiations.

The course provides the students with basic knowledge of the Swedish political system, both on the input side (political participation, political parties, other political actors), its structure (constitution, electoral system), and its output side (over the last couple of years, primarily welfare- and gender equality policies). It also discusses the historical development of these factors. In order to achieve this goal, the basic tools of comparative political analysis are also taught.

The course gives a general introduction to the psychology of learning and cognitive psychology. The main emphasis of the course is placed on cognitive psychology, covering thinking and knowledge processes, with memory as a central component. The course will also cover the basis of the psychology of learning, with emphasis on classical and operant conditioning. Finally, applications of cognitive psychology and psychology of learning will be addressed.

The course provides a general introduction to the area of developmental psychology and basic knowledge in child development. The course will additionally illustrate how biological predispositions and experiential processes work together over time. The teaching consists of lectures and seminars. Students will also attend a tour of the Uppsala Child and Baby Lab.Baby Lab: where we use modern technology (ex eye trackers), study infant and child development.

The course intends to increase awareness of the importance of sex, gender and ethnicity in the study of the different fields of psychology. It gives the opportunity to exercise skills to analyse and critically review research results and phenomena based on presented theoretical positions on sex, gender and ethnicity, and to be able to apply them within the different fields of psychology. During the course, central concepts, phenomenon, theoretical perspectives and research methods are presented regarding sex, gender and ethnicity, as well as how these have been developed within the main fields of study of psychology, such as biology, evolution, body and health, developmental psychology, personality, social psychology, working life, theory of knowledge and feminist psychology. During the course, sex, gender and ethnicity are presented from group and individual-psychological perspectives.

The course provides an introduction to historical and contemporary studies of the relationship between science and religion. We examine different perspectives that researchers in different disciplines have designed to understand how science and religion are or should be related. We will critically and constructively analyze notions of God and the Big Bang, atheism, and theories of evolution.

Recent trends of migration, media development and reshaping of welfare models raise new questions about the presence and relevance of religion primarily in public arenas of late modern Swedish society. The course gives deeper insight in theoretical perspectives and current research with a primary focus on the areas of welfare and media. Different roles of media and civil society as agents and arenas for the construction of meaning, values, identities and social relations are studied, including an analysis of the significance of gender, age as well as ethnic and religious diversity.

The central goal of the course is to create an understanding of how specific historical events have shaped debates about development in colonial and postcolonial contexts. A unique contribution that the course makes is to relate historical processes to contemporary developmental challenges around gendered global inequalities, how these processes coexist in contemporary societies and how structural processes affect people's everyday lives. The course is based on different types of literature that are not limited to typical academic literature. For example, in addition to the compulsory reading, we will study news media, documentaries, films, policy reports, biographical presentations and historical texts.

This course introduces the subject Development Studies and its central theories and themes. It provides an overview of various development theories and critiques of them. Special focus is placed on issues of power, state and development policy, but the course also introduces development theories in areas such as sustainability, economics and gender equality.

The course provides broad insights into Swedish culture and everyday life in Sweden by examining areas like everyday life, modernity, ethnicity, work-place culture, youth culture and the cultural impact of globalisation and new economies. With cultural and ethnological analytic perspectives on the individual and society, the course aims to develop and deepen students' knowledge of cultural encounters and ethnicity, modernity, the new economy, the electronic revolution, communications and media, and popular culture in many variations. An important part of the course is to convey the methodological knowledge of ethnological research, and provide training in field work and creative writing. The course can be seen as an essential part of professional preparation in medicine, technology, media, management and ICT-related fields.

This is the course for you who want to learn the basics in the Swedish language. The course is aimed for international students without previous knowledge of the Swedish language. Basic Swedish 1 gives you an introduction to the Swedish language through teacher-led training and to an extent self-learning.

The course gives you the basics in the Swedish language structure, vocabulary and written skills. Listening comprehension and pronunciation are also included in the course. All these parts are taught parallely during the course.

The course Basic Swedish 1 focuses on themes from everyday life and the typical experience of being a student at Uppsala University. The course gives you opportunity to practice the Swedish language in common everyday situations.

Taking the course also gives you the opportunity to get to know and study with other international students.

The course includes 48 lessons and you meet the teacher and your group twice a week.

Passed course gives you 7,5 credits and aims at the A1 level on the CEFR-scale

This course is aimed for international students who have the basics in the Swedish language. You have learned the basics through participating and pass Basic Swedish 1 or corresponding studies. Basic Swedish 2 gives you more profound knowledge in the Swedish language through teacher-led training and to an extent self-learning.

The course deepens your knowledge of Swedish language structure, vocabulary and written skills. Listening comprehension and pronunciation are also included in the course. The course also includes exercises and assignments to improve your ability to express your oral and written skills. All these parts are taught parallelly through the course.

During the course we expand from Uppsala and student life and dedicate the studies to more general themes. The texts and the themes focus on areas like family, spare time, professions, education, geography, science, and environment.

Taking the course also entails the opportunity to get to know and study with other international students.

The course includes 48 lessons and you meet the teacher and your group twice a week.

Passed course gives you 7,5 credits and aims at the A2 level on the CEFR-scale.

This course is aimed for international students who have relatively good proficiency in the Swedish language. You have learned the basics through participating and passing the Basic Swedish 2 course or corresponding studies. Basic Swedish 3 gives you more profound knowledge in the Swedish language through teacher-led training and to an extent self-learning.

The course deepens your knowledge of Swedish language structure, vocabulary and written skills. The course also includes assignments to improve your listening comprehension and the ability to express your oral and written skills. All these parts are taught parallelly through the course.

The texts and the themes focus on areas like spare time, lifestyle, government, politics, the history of Sweden and the Nordic countries, tourism, and travels.

Taking the course also entails the opportunity to get to know and study with other international students.

The course includes 48 lessons and you meet the teacher and your group twice a week.

Passed course gives you 7,5 credits and aims at the B1 level on the CEFR-scale.

This course is aimed for international students who have good proficiency in the Swedish language. You have learned the basics through participating and passing the Basic Swedish 3 course or corresponding studies. Basic Swedish 4 gives you more profound knowledge in the Swedish language through teacher-led training and partially self-instruction.

The course deepens your knowledge of Swedish language structure, vocabulary and written skills. The course also includes assignments to improve your listening comprehension and the ability to express your oral and written skills. All these parts are taught parallelly during the course.

The texts and the themes focus on areas like crime and punishment, social media, holidays and working.

Taking the course also entails the opportunity to get to know and study with other international students.

The course includes 48 lessons and you meet the teacher and your group twice a week.

Passed course gives you 7,5 credits and aims at the B2 level on the CEFR-scale.

Intensive Basic Swedish is an intensive language course for exchange students and Master's students at Uppsala University. The course consist of two parts: Reading Comprehension and Writing Proficiency (4.5 credits) and Listening Comprehension and Oral Proficiency (3 credits). Upon completing the course, students will have acquired basic skills in the Swedish language and some knowledge about Swedish society. Students who pass the Intensive Basic Swedish course are eligible to continue on to Basic Swedish 2 during the autumn semester.

The course includes studies in the classification and description of modern Turkish languages. In addition, an introduction is given to culture and religion in the Turkish-speaking group as well as the current political situation in the countries and areas where Turkish languages ​​are spoken. The course also includes training in generic skills such as presenting and critically discussing scientific topics.