From Vikings to Welfare: An Introduction to the Archaeology and History of Sweden and the Nordic Countries 30 credits

About the course

With this course students gain insight into the Archaeology, history, history of religions and intellectual history of Sweden and the Nordic countries. The course contains four modules: ancient Scandinavia, history of the Nordic countries, history of Nordic religions (Viking age religion, Sami religion and Christianity) and the Sami, and the intellectual history of Sweden. 

This course contains four modules that can be studied as separate courses as well.

Module 1: Ancient Scandinavia (7.5 credits)

Module 2: History of the Nordic countries (7.5 credits)

Module 3: Sami and Old Norse Religion/Nordic religions (7,5 credits)

Module 4: Twentieth Century Swedish Intellectual History (7,5 credits)