Swedish

The study of the Swedish language and other Scandinavian languages includes a wide range of research fields: from conversation analysis to rune studies, from language and gender to onomastics and dialectology. Also, other Scandinavian languages are part of the course curriculum.

In the first-cycle courses of The Swedish Language and Scandinavian Languages, you acquire knowledge of Swedish grammar, the impact of the Swedish language in society, and its history. The Swedish Language profile has courses in Text Analysis and in Writing and Speech. You develop good communicative skills. In The Scandinavian Languages profile, you acquire knowledge of Danish, Icelandic and Norwegian.

Alongside the regular A-C course track, we offer courses for specific purposes, for example, Professional Writing.

Courses

Bachelor's level, basic courses

Danish 1, 7.5 credits Danish and Norwegian, 7.5 credits Icelandic 1, 7.5 credits Language Structure, 7.5 credits Norwegian 1, 7.5 credits Place-Names and Personal Names, 7.5 credits Professional Writing in Swedish, 15 credits Scandinavian Languages A, 30 credits Study of Runes, 7.5 credits Swedish Dialects, 7.5 credits Swedish in Time and Space, 7.5 credits Swedish Language A, 30 credits

Bachelor's level, continuing courses

Conversation Analysis, 7.5 credits Functional Danish, 7.5 credits Grammar in Theory and Practice, 7.5 credits Grammar, Text and Meaning, 7.5 credits Icelandic 2, 7.5 credits Language and Society, 7.5 credits Language Development in the Classroom, 7.5 credits Language Usage and Planning, 7.5 credits Linguistic Contrast and Continuity in the North, 7.5 credits Norwegian 2, 7.5 credits Old Icelandic, 7.5 credits Older Swedish Texts, 7.5 credits Runology, 7.5 credits Scandinavian Languages B, 30 credits Special Topics in Sociolinguistics, 7.5 credits Swedish Language B, 30 credits Swedish/Scandinavian Languages C, 30 credits Tests and Assessment in Swedish and Swedish as a Second Language, 7.5 credits Textual Analysis in Theory and Practice, 7.5 credits The Emergence of the Swedish Language, 7.5 credits

Master's level courses

Academic Writing in Swedish, 7.5 credits Advanced Runology, 7.5 credits Conversation Analysis (Master's Level), 7.5 credits Critical Discourse Analysis for Linguists, 7.5 credits Grammar and Phonology, 7.5 credits Historical Sociolinguistics, 7.5 credits Introduction to Advanced Studies of Swedish Language, 7.5 credits Language History (Master's Level), 7.5 credits Language Policy, 7.5 credits Literacy from an L2 Perspective, 7.5 credits Multilingual Research, 7.5 credits Multilingualism and Education, 7.5 credits Old Norse Philology, 7.5 credits Onomastics (Master's Level), 7.5 credits Professional Text Editing, 7.5 credits Psycholinguistic Research on Multilingualism, 7.5 credits Sociolinguistic Research Fields, 7.5 credits Specialised Language, Terminology and Translation, 7.5 credits The Variation of Swedish, 7.5 credits Theory and Method for Linguists, 7.5 credits Workplace Communication, 7.5 credits

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