Course catalogue - autumn 2012

Below you can find a list of courses open to exchange and guest students and taught in English or other foreign languages at the Faculty of Humanities.

 

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

• Art History
• Asian Studies (Chinese Studies, Indology, Indonesian, South East Asian Studies, Tibetology)
• Comparative Cultural Studies
• Comparative Literature and Modern Culture
• Danish Culture Courses
• English Studies
• Ethnology
• Film and Media Studies
• French Studies
• German Studies
• History
• It and Cognition
• Italian Studies
• Middle East Studies (Arabic, Near oriental archaeology)
• Minority Studies
• Philosophy
• Spanish Studies

Art History

• Understanding Mirrors: Bronze Age – 18. Century (MA) 15 ECTS

Art History is part of the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies.

Asian Studies (Chinese Studies, Indology, Indonesian, South East Asian Studies, Tibetology) 

• Advanced Readings in Sanskrit  (MA) 15 ECTS
• Chinese society and politics (BA) 15 ECTS
• Introduction to Southeast Asian History  (MA) 7,5 ECTS
• The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development (BA) 15 ECTS
• The Silk Road  (BA) 15 ECTS
  
• Xinjiiang: past and present (BA) 15 ECTS

Asian Studies is part of the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.  

Comparative Cultural Studies

• Travel in Central Asia: pilgrims, merchants, missionaries, explorers and adventurers along the Silk Road  15 ECTS

Comparative Cultural Studies is part of the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

Comparative Literature and Modern Culture

• Historical subject: 4 cities - Urbanism and Architecture (MA) 15 ECTS
• The Visuality of the Other (MA) 
• Theoretical Subject: Urban Culture and Cultural Theory (MA) 15 ECTS

Comparative Literature is part of the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies.

Danish Culture Courses

These courses are open to all international students regardless of their field of study. 

• Course in Danish Culture (BA) 7,5 or 15 ECTS
• Danish Architecture, Landscape, Design and Urban Planning (BA) 15 ECTS
• Danish Cinema (BA) 15 ECTS
• Nordic Mythology  (BA) 15 ECTS
• Søren Kierkegaard and the Challenge of Existence (BA) 15 ECTS

English Studies

• After Empire: Writing the Postcolonial past (BA) 7,5 ECTS
• American fiction
• Contemporary America and the 2012 Presidential Election (BA) 7,5 ECTS
• Contemporary Australia (BA) 7,5 ECTS
• Dickens and the Workings of the Novel (BA) 7,5 ECTS
• English and American Postmodern Writing (BA) 7,5 ECTS
• Language and Gender (BA) 7,5 ECTS
• Language and identity (BA) 7,5 ECTS
• New York and the Movies (BA) 7,5 ECTS
• Reinventing th Southern Renaissance   (BA) 7,5 ECTS
• Shakespearean Drama on Page Stage and Screen (BA) 7,5 ECTS
• Science and Empire (BA/MA) 15 ECTS
• American Fiction (MA) 15 ECTS
• Communication, co-operation and conflict  (MA) 15 ECTS
• Foreign language acquisition Module 3A Vocabulary: Description, Acquisition and Pedagogy (MA) 15 ECTS
• Global Voices (MA) 15 ECTS
• Globalization in contemprorary writing about the U. S. south (MA) 15 ECTS
• Images of the Australian Past: History on the Screen  (MA) 15 ECTS
• Life-story, oral history and the archive of memory  (MA) 15 ECTS
• Modernism and the Search for National Identity: Framing America Through Art 1900-1950  (MA) 15 ECTS
• Narrating the Nation  (MA) 15 ECTS
• The Word and The World in Paul Auster's Writing   (MA) 15 ECTS
• The Writings of Oscar Wilde (MA) 15 ECTS
• William Shakespeare, An Introduction, Followed by a Reading of Selected Plays  (MA) 15 ECTS
• Writing in a foreign language: Process and product (MA) 15 ECTS

English Studies is part of the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies 

Ethnology

• The Ethnology of Health and Illness (MA) 15 ECTS

Ethnology is part of the SAXO-Institute . 

Film and Media Studies

• Art of Sound in Cinema: course in cinematic sound studies (MA) 15 ECTS
• Between Documentary and Fiction (MA) 15 ECTS
• Cognitive and Evolutionary Film theory (MA) 15 ECTS
• Digital Effects and Cinematic Storytelling (MA) 15 ECTS
• Empirical methodologies (MA) 15 ECTS
• European Film, Media and Public Sphere (MA) 15 ECTS
• Identity, culture and media (MA) 15 ECTS
• On the Move: Migration, Culture and Filmmaking in Europe (MA) 15 ECTS
• The French New Wave (MA) 15 ECTS

Film and Media Studies is part of the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication.

French Studies

• Culture et différence en France et dans le monde francophone (MA) 15 ECTS

German Studies

• Sprachlehrforschung und E-learning (MA) 15 ECTS

History

• Early Modern Histories of Weather and Climate in the West, c. 1550-1850 (BA/MA) 15 ECTS
• From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., the US Civil Rights Movement and Its Aftermath (BA/MA) 15 ECTS
• The Nordic Model 1800-2012 (BA/MA) 15 ECTS
• Victoria to Vendetta: Great Britain, the British Empire and the Imperial political and cultural legacy, c. 1880 to the present (BA/MA) 15 ECTS

History is part of the SAXO-Institute .

It and Cognition

• Adaptive Systems (MA) 7,5 ECTS
• Cognitive psychology II (MA) 15 ECTS
• Cognitive Science I (MA) 7,5 ECTS
• Cognitive Science II (MA) 15 ECTS
• Data and Algorithms for Cognition Studies (MA) 7,5 ECTS
• Experimental Methods (MA) 7,5 ECTS
• Introduction to Computer Science (MA) 7,5 ECTS
• Language Technology II (MA) 15 ECTS
• Linguistics (MA) 7,5 ECTS
• Man-Machine-Interaction I (MA) 7,5 ECTS
• Man-Machine Interaction II (MA) 7,5 ECTS

IT and Cognition is run by the Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics and the  Centre for Language Technology . 

Italian Studies

• Corso monografico - bozza presentazione (MA) 

Middle East Studies (Arabic, Near oriental archaeology) 

• The History of Islamic and Middle East Studies in the 20th Century (MA) 15 ECTS

Middle East Studies is part of the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.  

Minority Studies

• The Anatomy of Hatred: Philosophy, Crime and Ethnic Conflict (BA/MA) 15 ECTS

Minority Studies is part of the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies

Philosophy

• Applied Political Philosophy (MA) 15 ECTS
• Dimensions of Equality (MA) 15 ECTS
• Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind, 2nd Module: Central text (MA) 15 ECTS
• Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind, 3rd Module: Central topic in phenomenology, philosophy of mind and philosophical psychology (MA) 15 ECTS
• Social Epistemology, Module 1: Basic Themes in Social Epistemology (MA) 15 ECTS

Philosophy is part of the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication

Spanish Studies

• CJ Cela (MA) 15 ECTS
• Identidades en construcción; etnicidad y movimiento social. El Tipnis en Bolivia (MA) 15 ECTS
• Oral Proficiency in Spanish (MA) 7,5 ECTS
• Teatro en español (MA) 15 ECTS
• Written Proficiency and Grammar (MA) 7,5 ECTS

Spanish Studies is part of the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies.

Contact: the Department Student Guidance Centers