Course
Course 7.5 credits • SASH64
This course will provide you with a short overview of Swedish and Nordic history from the Viking Age to the present. A Nordic perspective is taken to allow critical approach to an otherwise Swedish interpretation of history. Selected issues from Swedish and Nordic history will be discussed in order to orient you in relevant discussions and arguments in historical theory as well as to train you in historical argumentation based on scholarly foundations.
Teaching – autumn semester of 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect our courses and programmes. Teaching and assessment during the first half of the autumn semester 2021 will be conducted both online and on campus. From 1 November more elements will be conducted on campus – the current schedule is available on course websites and/or in Canvas.
Course content
The course includes important developments, relationships and events in the history of Sweden and the Nordic countries over a broad time span. You will particularly get:
- an overview of the Viking Age, and how the period is perceived by historians with regards to the sources,
- an overview of the political and social changes in Sweden between 1000-1800, and learn more on
- the historical roots of modern society and the Scandinavian Model of the Welfare state, with special attention to gender issues.
Teaching
Teaching takes the form of lectures and seminars. The assessment is based on class participation, group assignments and a take-home examination. In the course you will learn more on how to account for the scientific basis of historical knowledge, and how to discuss and evaluate academic historical writing.
Further information
The course is given in our humanities and theology centre, LUX. This offers an exciting campus environment with a vibrant student life. Lund University has one of Sweden’s oldest and largest research libraries, and the library at LUX is one of 26 libraries within this network.
The course is given as a part-time course once a year, during the autumn semester (day-time). The course is a free-standing course for beginners. It can be included in a first or second-cycle degree.
Study period:
autumn semester 2021
Type of studies:
part time, 50 %,
day
Study period:
2021-09-07 – 2021-11-09
Language of instruction:
English
Application code:
LU-30951
Eligibility:
General requirements for university studies in Sweden
Introductory meeting: Tuesday, 7 September at 9.15 – 12.00
Second Admission Round
Nationell ansökningsomgång
Autumn semester 2025
Late application
Possibly opens 15 July