Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top universities. The University has around 45 000 students and more than 8 000 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.
Lund is considered one of the most popular study locations in Sweden. The University offers one of the broadest ranges of programmes and courses in Scandinavia, based on cross-disciplinary and cutting-edge research. The unique disciplinary range encourages boundary-crossing collaborations both within academia and with wider society, creating great conditions for scientific breakthroughs and innovations. The University has a distinct international profile, with partner universities in approximately 75 countries.
Lund University has an annual turnover of EUR 892 million, of which two-thirds go to research in our nine faculties, enabling us to offer one of the strongest and broadest ranges of research in Scandinavia.
Academic: GPA of 3.0 or above on their studies to date
English Language:
– IELTS: 6.5 (no subscores below 5.5)
– TOEFL iBT: 90 (no subscores below 20)
– Duolingo English Test: not accepted.
02 September 2024 – 19 January 2025
Available Courses
The course addresses the development of communism after World War II, focusing on the situation in Central and Eastern Europe. The aim is to study the development of communism during the Cold War, from the Yalta conference in 1945 to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, and its consequences in the 1990s and early twenty-first century. The subject is addressed from both genetic and genealogical perspectives.
The course provides an introduction to Swedish culture and daily life. It is based on field work in which an analysis is made of material collected through the practice of observation techniques. One of the themes studied is the articulation of modernity in Swedish daily life.
The course is an introduction to Social Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). It aims at drawing engaged reflections and theoretical comparisons between how
humans engage in meaningful interactions with other humans and with social robots.
Towards this aim, the course will first provide an overview of the standard and contrasting accounts of social cognition and its development, spanning from Theory of Mind, embodied and situated approaches, neural mirroring theories. Mainstream research paradigms to investigate human-robot interactions will be presented, along
with an overview of the main cognitive architectures and computing techniques applied in social robotics, such as artificial neural networks and deep networks.
Finally, the course will address some psychological and philosophical critical issues related with ethical, social and functional aspects in the HRI field.
The Roman Empire, although largely a product of warfare, lasted for half a millennium. In many ways it still survives, imbedded in present institutions, explicitly addressed in contemporary architecture and constantly reemerging in literature, cinema and most recently, in computer games. The present course primarily focuses how this big empire came into being and how come that it lasted for so long. We will make acquaintance with the City, the Italian core land and the provinces in an attempt to answer series of questions about the nature of this empire. How far was life in the provinces aligned on the model of the City? What purpose did monumentalisation fulfill? What did it mean to be Roman? What do we know about the economic and social basis of this empire? How much did this empire differ from other contemporary constructs, such as China and Parthia?
The course concerns the intercultural issues that you will meet in your personal and professional life. In our contemporary global world we meet many people from cultures different than our own. These contacts can often enrich our lives and our understanding of the world, but sometimes they cause problems for ourselves and for the organization we work for. Learning to handle intercultural issues is a necessary prerequisite if we want to become global citizens.
This course focusses on questions that arise in the study of global diversity that characterises language structure and use. The course will deal with questions such as:
How many languages are there in the world?
How do new languages arise?
How and why do languages change?
Why do languages die?
What does it mean to say that two languages are related?
How much do languages have in common? How much do languages differ?
What is typical for languages from different parts of the world?
The course investigates the intimate connections between religion and politics, historically and sociologically and on group as well as individual level.
It introduces different groups that have made political religion known in recent decades. Furthermore, focus is placed on how people take up issues of democracy, the environment and equality because of religious conviction and on different historical and sociological models for interpreting different forms of religiopolitical activism.
During prehistory Europe changed and developed in several ways, especially in connection with the introduction of new technological and social complexes. This course consist of a number of thematic lectures and seminars concerning different central questions in European prehistory. Among them we find;
the introduction of agriculture
the emergence of metallurgy
the emergence of complex societies
The course discusses how theses process developed in South- Central and Northern Europe during prehistory. The emergence of, and the effect of different processes and their impact on human societies in the constant process of social development are discussed.
The delicate art of eating has many implications for sustainability. Food production and consumption affects the climate, the natural environment and the landscape. Food also affects the sustainability of societies and its individuals. Both bodily functions and length of life is partly determined by how, what, where and when we eat.
The aim of the course is to give the student a broad introduction to the study of food and eating in relation to sustainability.
The course has an interdisciplinary approach, combining cultural, nutritional and geographical perspectives. Local field studies are combined with a global outlook, based on literature studies.
The subject of this course is Scandinavian design through the 20th century to the present in the light of contemporary international design. The development of modern design in Scandinavia is discussed in relation to earlier, modernistic and contemporary design.
Learn about the history of the European Union, from it´s formation up until recent events such as Brexit.
The course covers the development of European integration after the Second World War with a special focus on questions concerning national and supranational identities and values. The aim is to study the EU’s development from the time of the European Coal and Steel Community to the UK’s withdrawal in 2020, partly chronologically, but also based on a present-day perspective.
The course deals with the shaping of Swedish industrial culture and society from 1800 to 2000. The topics addressed include the transformation of the agricultural production system and the development of an infrastructure for transports, communications and power transmission. The significance of technical change for the transformation of Sweden from a poor country to an industrialised and democratic society with a well-developed welfare state, Sweden’s military-industrial complex and the concept of the Swedish model are analysed in the course.