Art Science B, Uppsala University. 30 credits

Knowledge of art science theorizing and method, both traditional and newer. The subject's basic questions and working methods. Knowledge of art science theorizing and method, both traditional and newer. The subject's basic questions and working methods.
Independent scientific work in the form of an essay with main focus: Female perspective and interpretation of beauty in The Birth of Venus.
I have always been fascinated by the quiet beauty of the detailed artwork, embraced with its feminine and soft atmosphere. In my Essay, am I intend to question and discuss female beauty and its ideals that interpret within visual images. Also discuss its mathematical perfection, The Golden Ratio in latin: sectio aurea. The Golden section as referred within the field of Art, is considered as the most beautiful in Art and Architecture, it is also to be found everywhere in nature. I have analyzed the poetic stillness and its proportions as interpreted in the picture The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli.
Department of Art History.

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Digital Visual Identity, University of Borås. 7,5 credits

The course aims to provide knowledge and understanding of digital identities in virtual environments such as socialmedia and digital games from a design perspective. The course introduces basic concepts, methods and strategies for creating and analyzing digital identities in virtual environments and in the borderland between virtual and physical environments. The course also provides basic knowledge and skills in critically evaluating digital identities in virtual environments from ethical and aesthetic aspects. The main content of the course is:
* Basic concepts and perspectives within digital identity with a focus on the body and clothes
* Aesthetic strategies and methods for developing digital visual identities from a design perspective
* Practical application of design methods for the artistic creation of digital identities
* Ethical aspects of digital identities based on different situations, environments, and results.

Established by Artistic Research and Education Board. Main Field of Study, Fashion Design.

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The Culture and Function of Advertising Images, Uppsala University. 7,5 credits

A deeper understanding of how advertising can be understood and interpreted as well as giving perspective on the role advertising plays in our society. The role of advertising in various visual media such as newspapers, television, film and the internet are discussed. Department of Art History.

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Saami Culture and Society, Uppsala University. 7,5 credits

The history and cultural history of the Sami as well as their current social conditions. Introduction to Sami literary history. Great emphasis is placed on the distinctive features of Sami culture. The course also provides knowledge of the names, distribution and current conditions of the Uralic peoples and languages.

Responsible department: Department of Modern Languages. The Faculty Board of Languages.

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Cultural Heritage and Visual and Narrative Forms of Expression, Uppsala University. 7,5 credits

The course deals with how the past is shaped and how history takes place in it
present, mainly through images such as photographs and images, as well as small
and great stories, but also through other forms of expression, techniques and styles in
different environments and contexts. With cultural heritage processes in focus, how is investigated visual and narrative representations create power relations and hierarchical
orders in society. The impact of cultural heritage through them representations they create are discussed. Also, the inclusion and exclusion of the figures functions, as well as ethical and moral aspects of societal consequences.
You are trained to use ethnographic methods to collect examples and from research literature to critically discuss how different collective notions, which sometimes compete, are created by selection from the past. The course provides an independent and nuanced approach to it visual and narrative forms of cultural expression.

Responsible department: Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology.

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New perspectives on Graeco-Roman Antiquity, University of Gothenburg. 15 credits

An overview of how research on Greco-Roman antiquity has developed both internationally and nationally. Likewise, research from older times is treated in relation to newer research questions, methods and theories, as well as questions about how newer research has contributed in different ways to new knowledge and understanding of a central cultural area in Europe's older history. Furthermore, antiquity is treated as an ideal of style in later times, as well as its importance in the present in the form of, for example, literature, theatre, art, fashion and political ideologies.

Department of Historical Studies, Humanistically. The main area is the study of Ancient culture and social life.

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History of Dress and Interiors, Uppsala University. 30 credits

The wonderful course provides knowledge of the various ideals that characterized the view of the human body, clothing and interior design during various historical eras. Through studies of the connection between beauty ideals, dress code, acting, consumption, art and interior history, A wide knowledge about the social and cultural norms that marked different cultural-historical environments during the period 1500-1900.

The knowledge and skills the course provides can be used for activities within schools, museums and the media.

The course is laid out chronologically and thematically. Each era is studied from both an art and costume historical perspective. The relationship between body, clothes and interiors is analyzed based on various themes such as the discrepancy between public and private, social hierarchies and power structures, aspects of gender, self-image and identity.

Department of Art History.

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The Mask of Beauty, Uppsala University. 7,5 credits

A basic knowledge of the history of portrait painting and beauty ideals during the period 1500- 1900 and the knowledge of the social and cultural norms and values ​​that have contributed to create different fashions and ideals. To independently and critically carry out and communicate analyzes and interpretations of portrait painting from the above period.

The knowledge and skills the course provides can be used for activities in schools, museums and the media as well as as a basis for further education at advanced level and postgraduate education.
The course is chronologically and thematically structured. Each era is studied from both an art and costume historical perspective. Various thematic questions are asked concerning, for example, the view of the body, gender roles, social hierarchies and identities.

Department of Art History.

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Shakespeare and Renaissance Culture, Linnaeus University. 15 credits

The course provides a basic introduction to William Shakespeare's time and works is provided. Particular emphasis is placed on the differences in perspective between then and now. How and why Shakespeare has become the world's most famous playwright, and how his texts can be understood from an early modern social and literary context. It explains the historical and social context in which Shakespeare's drama and poetry were created, distinguish thematic and formal features of the original texts studied.

The important genre conventions and genre history in the texts is discussed, and relate contemporary critical perspectives on Shakespeare to the approaches that existed in the 16th and 17th centuries. A number of Shakespeare's texts to the time period in which they were created are related, as well as to put the perceptions of Shakespeare at the time in relation to the changed views of later times.

An individual final essay task has been completed and related to the course material: ”Shakespeare´s gender on stage - How the women are depicted within his play"

Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Languages.

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Japanese Art, Architecture and Visual Culture, Uppsala University. 7,5 credits

The course provides an overview of the history of Japanese art and architecture from early Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples to today's visual art forms and popular cultural phenomena such as manga and anime.

It is bringing up the knowledge of Japanese art, architecture and visual culture as well as being able to describe, analyze and interpret Japanese images and buildings.
The Japanese concept of Ma is something that relates to all aspects of life. It has been described as a pause in time, an interval or emptiness in space. Ma is the fundamental time and space from which life needs to grow.
   The word ukiyo-e means pictures of the floating world in Japanese and is an art form that flourished during the Edo period. One of the three main themes in ukiyo-e woodblock prints is beautiful women (bijin), the other two are landscapes and kabuki actors. The focus was to portray the female form, it followed and reflected what was in fashion at the time.  An individual essay task has been written and related to the course material: The Japanese geisha.

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Academic Writing, Linnaeus University. 7,5 credits

The course develops the knowledge of and skills in scientific writing. Also gain experience in a process-oriented way of working and learn to critically review their own and others' texts. 

Faculty of Arts and Humanities. 
Department of Swedish Language
Subject group: Swedish/Nordic Languages

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Writing children´s literature, Linnaeus University. 7,5 credits

The course is artistic creation and introduction to writing for children and young people. The emphasis is on the student's own writing and tasks focused on storytelling techniques that are carried out, also to develop designs for the coherent children's literary text.

The aim of the course is to account for elementary parts of the history, terminology and terminology of children's literature methods. To write short texts in children's literary genres. Use the Swedish language in a correct and creative way in writing.

Determined by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. 
Main area: Creative writing. Subject group: Authorship

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The picture book and the children's novel, Umeå University. 7,5 credits

The course provides an introduction to the genres, themes and storytelling techniques of the modern picture book and children's novel through close study of a number of works. The focus is on how questions of identity, gender and ethnicity are treated in children's literature. Also discussed the conflicting needs children's literature is expected to satisfy – educational, pedagogical, aesthetic and emancipatory.

What does the world look like in a reference book? What norms are challenged and reproduced in modern picture books? What does the power relationship between children and adults look like in children's literature? What ideas about children and childhood take place in contemporary debates about children's literature?

Department of Culture and Media Studies.

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Green Roof, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp. 6 credits

Green roofs have an important role when building a dense green and multifunctional city. However, not all types of vegetation systems work in the same 

way and have different limitations and possibilities. This course takes a broad approach to green roofs. It deals with installation technology, maintenance and selection of system components and the importance this has for the systems' function.  Also a broad approach regarding the green installations, total environmental impact and sustainability as well as its production of different types of ecosystem services. A special focus will be on the importance of vegetation for sustainable stormwater management and the wonders of biodiversity.

​Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management. Subject: Landscape architecture.

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The History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, Uppsala University. 7,5 credits

The course describe the characteristic forms of garden art and landscape architecture in Europe during different periods from the Middle Ages to the present day and explain how these are related to the garden's different functions at different times and in different contexts. Also, account for different types of garden and landscape facilities and their cultural-historical context.
The course deals with the development of garden art and landscape architecture with a focus on Europe from the Middle Ages to the 20th century with, above all, an art history perspective. In connection with this, questions are also dealt with such as what is a garden and what functions has it had at different times and which professional groups have emerged in the area and influenced its development?

​Department of Art History.

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Work-oriented rehabilitation, Malmö University. 15 credits

Work-oriented rehabilitation is a controversial topic, rehabilitation is found in a current and debated field and knowledge in this subject is in demand in many contexts. Today, it is relevant not least based on questions about what consequences will occur as a result of the Corona pandemic.

The course brings up an overview of what illness, work ability, work environment and rehabilitation can be, as well as current legislation. Here we reflect on the people's own perspective, but also on factors in our living environment - for example the workplace - and on societal factors in general.

The work-oriented rehabilitation is found in a current and debated field, and knowledge in this subject is in demand in many contexts. Today, it is relevant not least based on questions about what consequences will occur as a result of the Corona pandemic. The knowledge can also be adopted preventively in retreats for wellbeing.

​Faculty of Health and Society. Disability and rehabilitation science.

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The History of Landscape Imagery, Uppsala University. 7,5 credits

The origin of the western landscape in the late Middle Ages follows its continued development to the present day. The course also deals with how overarching social and cultural phenomena such as urbanization, modernity and the creation of nation-states have affected the perception of landscapes and landscape images. The landscape image as a phenomenon and put in relation to changing uses, in relation to contemporary needs and ideas in culture and society. Department of Art History.

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Fashion Sketching & Illustration, University of Borås. 15 credits

To develop an understanding of and proficiency in fashion sketching, production sketching, and illustration as a
tool for artistic interpretation, idea development, and communication in the field of fashion design and all forms creative business in the delicate part of developing section.

Artistic Research and Education Board. 
Main Field of Study (Progressive Specialization): Textile and Fashion Design
Disciplinary Domain: Design.

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Pedagogy I, Stockholm University

Human behavior and social processes. Knowledge about how we learn and develop, about interpersonal relationships and how we interact and communicate.

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Museum Education Course, Stockholm University. 7,5 credits

The course treats the societal role and how the cultural environment can be used as an educational arena.

A cultural theoretical background of museums, involving theories about the social role of museums, concepts about the museum as a physical and virtual learning space, as well as methods of museum education.

The educational impacts of museum exhibitions.

Department of Subject Didactics, Subject didactics.
Belongs to the area of interest: Man, Law, Politics and Society.

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Roses

A course by Michael Marriott.

The rose is exceptional in the plant world. It is easy to argue that it is the most garden worthy of all plants and can be grown in most climates around the world. There is no other plant that has such a close cultural association with us and is used as a symbol in many different ways. Michael Marriott is one of the world’s leading experts on roses and was Head Rosarian at David Austin Roses where he worked for 35 years. 

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The Herb Garden

A course by Dr. Rachel Petheram.

Herbs are beautiful multi-functional plants that are easy to grow and have many beneficial effects on our health and the health of our gardens. They look and taste fantastic and they are an easy and cost-effective way to add interest to our garden and to our diets. They are forgiving tolerant plants that can survive in the most unlikely of containers, and given the right conditions will thrive in the smallest of spaces.

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