Swedish name: Svensk kultur och vardagsliv
This syllabus is valid: 2024-01-15 and until further notice
Course code: 1ET055
Credit points: 7.5
Education level: First cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level:
Ethnology: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Grading scale: Three-grade scale
Responsible department: Department of Culture and Media Studies
Established by: Faculty director of studies, Faculty of arts, 2020-09-03
Revised by: Head of Department of Culture and Media Studies, 2023-06-20
The course provides an introduction to Swedish society, culture and daily life. It explores different themes and questions connecting contemporary culture with societal changes over the past century. Themes covered, includes gender, perceptions of Swedishness, the rural north and sustainability. Through a variety of learning activities, material, and assignments, representations of Swedishness and Swedish culture and identity are highlighted and problematized.
After completed course, the student should be able to account for:
After completed course, the student must show the ability to:
The course is given in English. The teaching consists of lectures, seminars, individual and group assignments. If attendance at lectures and exercises is compulsory, that is to say of an examinatory character, this is specified in the schedule. If the student is absent from a compulsory seminar or lecture, a supplementary assignment will be provided by the teacher.
For those who are registered for a course and have a disability, there are resources for special support. For more information contact the Student Center.
The course is examined through participation in seminars including preparatory assignments, which are graded U (Fail) or G (Pass) and one individually written examination (home exam). The individual final exam is graded with Pass with distinction (Väl godkänd), Pass (Godkänd) or Fail (Underkänd). To pass the course all mandatory parts are required, and the individual exam must have received the grade G. To receive Pass with distinction (VG) for the course, all mandatory parts are required (grade G), and the individual exam must have received the grade VG.
For each examining part of the course there is a regular examination given with a second reexamination within two months after the regular examination. For examinations performed in May and June, the first reexamination is offered within three months of the regular examination. In addition to this, a third reexamination is given within a year after the end of the course. Those who have passed the test may not undergo a re-test for higher grades.
A student who does not fully meet the objectives of an examination but is close to the limit for a passing grade can, after a decision by the examiner, be given the opportunity to supplement in order to achieve the examination assignment's criteria for a passing grade. Completion of the examination must be adapted individually based on the goal(s) not achieved by the student and must take place within two weeks after the students have been notified of the examination results, but before the next examination opportunity. It is only permitted to supplement an unsuccessful result to pass, supplementation for higher grades is not permitted.
The examiner can decide on deviations from the syllabus' examination form. Individual adaptation of the examination form must be considered based on the student's needs. The examination form is adapted within the framework of the syllabus' expected study results. Students who need an adapted examination must request adaptation from the department responsible for the course no later than 10 days before the examination. The examiner decides on an adapted examination which is then communicated to the student.
To pass the course, all exams and compulsory parts must be passed. The grade constitutes a summary assessment of the results in the various parts of the examination and is only set when all compulsory parts have been approved. To obtain the grade Pass with distinction on the entire course, the student must have received this grade on the home exam.
Students who are registered for a course and have registered credits in Ladok on the course have the right to be examined on the course and its parts up to two years after the first registration date. A student who, without a passing grade, has passed an ordinary examination and a re-examination for the course, has the right to have another examiner appointed at the next re-examination, unless there are special reasons to the contrary. Requests for a change of examiner are made to the director of studies at the Department of Culture and Media Studies.
Transfer of credits
The student who wishes to take advantage of education obtained at another department or university (Swedish / foreign) must do so in the order described in Tillgodoräknandeordning vid Umeå universitet (Dnr. 545-3317-02).
The application for credit must be made in writing. The application must state which element or course the application refers to. Certified copies of course certificates or equivalent, stating the university, time, subject affiliation, level, points and grades must be attached. In addition, the syllabus, including bibliography for the courses referred to and, where applicable, essay work, must be attached.
In a degree, this course may not be included together with another course with similar content. In case of doubt, the student should consult the Director of Studies at the Department of Cultural and Media Studies
Agnidakis Paul
Ethnology
The international encyclopedia of anthropology : 2018 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Bartlett Flora Mary
Freezers full of gold: Living well with landscape in rural Northern Sweden.
Kulturella Perspektiv 32. : 2023 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Cocq. C.
Anthropological Places, Digital Spaces, and Imaginary Scapes: Packaging a Digital Sámiland
Folklore, 124(1): 1-14 : 2013 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Representation : cultural representation and signifying practices.
Hall Stuart, Evans Jessica., Nixon Sean.
2nd ed. : London : SAGE : 2012. : 1 v. :
ISBN: 1-84920-547-7 ¹70.00
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Reading instructions: Selected parts
The Invention of tradition
Hobsbawm E. J., Ranger T. O.
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] : Cambridge University Press : 2012. : 1 online resource (vi, 320 pages). :
Online access for UMUB
ISBN: 9781107295636
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Reading instructions: Selected parts
Ingridsdotter Jenny
´Waffles with dulce de leche: Settler Society and the Making of Swedish Heritage in Northern Argentina
Ethnologia Scandinavica 50 : 2020 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 145-168
Isenhour Cindy
Building sustainable societies: A Swedish case study on the limits of reflexive modernization
American ethnologist 37(3) : 2010 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 511-525
Kuoljok K
Without land we are lost: traditional knowledge, digital technology and power relations.
AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 15(4) : 2019 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 349-358
Löfgren Orvar
Changing emotional economies: The case of Sweden 19702010
Culture and Organization, 19:4 : 2013 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 286-296
Narratives of progress: cooking and gender equality among Swedish men.
Neuman Nicklas, Gottzén Lucas, Fjellström Christina
Journal of Gender Studies 26:2 : 2017 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 151-163
The #MeToo Movement: Men and Masculinity in Swedish News Media.
Nilsson Bo, Lundgren Anna Sofia
The Journal of Mens Studies, 29(1) : 2021 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 8-25
Nygaard Mathias Ephraim
Swedish Fermented Herring as a Marker of Rural Identity: The Alfta Surströmmingsskiva
Food, Culture & Society 22 (4) : 2019 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 407-222
The importance of friends: social life challenges for foreign physicians in Southern Sweden
Povrzanović Frykman Maja, Mozetič Katarina
Community, Work & Family, 23:4 : 2020 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 385-400
Runfors A
Challenging the hierarchies of Swedish whiteness: Negative experiences and undesired effects of passing as white and Swedish
Kulturella Perspektiv Svensk Etnologisk Tidskrift, 31 : 2022 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Sustainable living in a periphery : Interpreting ways of rural mobility in a low-carbon world.
Hämeenaho P., Wollin, E.
Ethnologia Scandinavica, 50 : 2020 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Eating Together in the Twenty-First Century : Social Challenges, Community Values, Individual Wellbeing / edited by Tamas Lestar, Manuela Manuela Pilato, and Hugues Séraphin
uuuu-uuuu :
Online access for UMUB
ISBN: 9781003817284
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Reading instructions: Chapter 4 Swedengate
Logics of rurality: Political rhetoric about the Swedish North.
Nilsson Bo, Lundgren Anna Sofia
Journal of Rural Studies 37 (February) : 2015 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Sweden and Swedishness from Migrants Afar
Tolgensbakk Ida, Woube Annie
Ethnologia Scandinavica 50 : 2016 :
Mandatory
Articles according to teachers' instructions may be added
Agnidakis Paul
Ethnology
The international encyclopedia of anthropology : 2018 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Bartlett Flora Mary
Freezers full of gold: Living well with landscape in rural Northern Sweden.
Kulturella Perspektiv 32. : 2023 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Cocq. C.
Anthropological Places, Digital Spaces, and Imaginary Scapes: Packaging a Digital Sámiland
Folklore, 124(1): 1-14 : 2013 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Representation : cultural representation and signifying practices.
Hall Stuart, Evans Jessica., Nixon Sean.
2nd ed. : London : SAGE : 2012. : 1 v. :
ISBN: 1-84920-547-7 ¹70.00
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Reading instructions: Selected parts
The Invention of tradition
Hobsbawm E. J., Ranger T. O.
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] : Cambridge University Press : 2012. : 1 online resource (vi, 320 pages). :
Online access for UMUB
ISBN: 9781107295636
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Reading instructions: Selected parts
Ingridsdotter Jenny
´Waffles with dulce de leche: Settler Society and the Making of Swedish Heritage in Northern Argentina
Ethnologia Scandinavica 50 : 2020 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 145-168
Isenhour Cindy
Building sustainable societies: A Swedish case study on the limits of reflexive modernization
American ethnologist 37(3) : 2010 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 511-525
Tullia Jack
Cleanliness and Consumption: Exploring Material and Social Structuring of Domestic Cleaning Practices
International Journal of Consumer Studies 41 (1) : 2017 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 70-78
Jönsson Håkan
A Food Nation Without Culinary Heritage? Gastronationalism in Sweden
Journal of Gastronomy and Tourism 4 (4) : 2020 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 223-237
Kuoljok K
Without land we are lost: traditional knowledge, digital technology and power relations.
AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 15(4) : 2019 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 349-358
Löfgren Orvar
Changing emotional economies: The case of Sweden 19702010
Culture and Organization, 19:4 : 2013 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 286-296
Narratives of progress: cooking and gender equality among Swedish men.
Neuman Nicklas, Gottzén Lucas, Fjellström Christina
Journal of Gender Studies 26:2 : 2017 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 151-163
Logics of rurality: Political rhetoric about the Swedish North.
Nilsson Bo, Lundgren Anna Sofia
Journal of Rural Studies 37 (February) : 2015 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 85-95
The #MeToo Movement: Men and Masculinity in Swedish News Media.
Nilsson Bo, Lundgren Anna Sofia
The Journal of Mens Studies, 29(1) : 2021 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 8-25
Nygaard Mathias Ephraim
Swedish Fermented Herring as a Marker of Rural Identity: The Alfta Surströmmingsskiva
Food, Culture & Society 22 (4) : 2019 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 407-222
The importance of friends: social life challenges for foreign physicians in Southern Sweden
Povrzanović Frykman Maja, Mozetič Katarina
Community, Work & Family, 23:4 : 2020 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 385-400
Runfors A
Challenging the hierarchies of Swedish whiteness: Negative experiences and undesired effects of passing as white and Swedish
Kulturella Perspektiv Svensk Etnologisk Tidskrift, 31 : 2022 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Sweden and Swedishness from Migrants Afar
Tolgensbakk Ida, Woube Annie
Ethnologia Scandinavica: 2016 : 2016 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Articles according to teachers' instructions may be added