Main Field of Study and progress level:
Cultural Analysis: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Drama-Theatre-Film: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Ethnology: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Art History: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Comparative Literature: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Media and Communication Studies: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Museology: 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, 2015-12-16
Revised by: Head of Department of Culture and Media Studies, 2017-09-04
Contents
The course gives an introduction to contemporary Swedish cultural trends, tendencies and debates through the study of some Swedish depictions and narratives. Within the course, several themes are explored: equality, ecology, migration and political activism. With examples from popular culture, massmedia and contemporary art forms representations of Swedishness and Swedish culture are analyzed and problematized. Attention is given to the relationship between the local, the national and the global.
Expected learning outcomes
After completing the course the student should have:
Knowledge of:
Some contemporary Swedish cultural trends, tendencies and debates.
Examples of specific Swedish depictions and narratives relating to the main themes of the course.
The concepts representation and Swedishness
Abilities:
To critically reflect upon and analyse individual popular cultural expressions, mass media and art forms in relation to political discourse and public debate.
Required Knowledge
General entry requirements
Form of instruction
The course is held in English. Teaching consists of lectures, seminars, group projects and local excursions. All seminars and local excursions are compulsory. If a student fails to attend a compulsory session, a written complementary examination will be provided by the teacher.
As an enrolled student with a disability you can apply for support in connection with your studies. For more information contact the Student Services.
Examination modes
The course is examined through seminar assignments, participation in seminars and excursions, which is graded U (Fail) or G (Pass) and one final individually written exam. The written exam is to be handed in at the end of the course and will cover both descriptive and analytic elements. On the written exam one of the grades U (Fail), G (Pass), or VG (Pass with distinction) is given. In order to pass the course all exams and compulsory sessions must be passed and one of the grades U (Fail), G (Pass), or VG (Pass with distinction) is given.
Students who fail the final examination have the right to retake the examination within two months afterwards and again within a year, but the first exam might also be rewritten with a restriction to receive the highest grade (VG). Examination on the same syllabus as the ordinary examination is guaranteed until two years after the first registration to the course.
Students who have passed an examination cannot redo the examination to receive a higher grade. A student who has failed an examination twice can apply to the The Faculty of Arts Board to have another teacher consider the exam.
Other regulations
Credit transfer is always examined individually.
Literature
Valid from:
2018 week 3
Some of the literature is provided by teachers in connection to lectures and seminars. The students will also be able to suggest material for seminar discussions.
Booth Michael The almost nearly perfect people : the truth about the Nordic miracle London : Jonathan Cape : 2014 : 406 s. : ISBN: 9780224089623 Mandatory Search the University Library catalogue Reading instructions: Selections appointed by the teachers
Modern-day Vikings: A Practical Guide to Interacting With the Swedes (InterAct series) Carr Lisa Werner, Robinowitz Christina Johansson Intercultural Press, Incorporated : 2001 : Mandatory
Sweden after the recent election : the double-binding power of Swedish whiteness through the mourning of the loss of “old Sweden” and the passing of “good Sweden” Hübinette Tobias, Lundström Catrin Included in: Nora London : Taylor & Francis : 1998- : Mandatory
Isenhour Cindy Building sustainable societies: A Swedish case study on the limits of reflexive modernization Included in: American ethnologist Washington : The Soc. : 1974- : 37 : pages 511-525 : Mandatory
Blond och blåögd : vithet, svenskhet och visuell kultur = Blond and blue-eyed : whiteness, Swedishness, and visual culture Werner Jeff, Björk Tomas Göteborg : Göteborgs konstmuseum : 2014 : 392 s. : Fulltext ISBN: 9789187968877 Mandatory Search the University Library catalogue Reading instructions: Skiascope 6, 2014, p. 13-49, 161-169
Davis Kathy Intersectionality as Buzzword Included in: Feminist theory. London : Sage : 2000- : pages p. 67-86 : Mandatory
Citizenship policies and ideas of nationhood in Scandinavia, Citizenship Studies, 14:4 Brochmann Grete, Seland Idunn Mandatory : 2010 : Mandatory Reading instructions: p. 429-443
Hall Stuart Representation : cultural representations and signifying practices. London : Sage : 1997 : 400 s. : ill. : ISBN: 0-7619-5432-5 Mandatory Search the University Library catalogue Reading instructions: p. 1-29
Nekby Lena Cultural Integration in Sweden Included in: Cultural integration of immigrants in Europe Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2012. : xiv, 344 p. : pages Chapter 6 : Mandatory Reading instructions: Chapter 6
Roald Anne Sofie From People's Home to Multiculturalism (Chapter 7) Included in: Muslims in the West Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2002. : xvii, 318 p. : Mandatory Reading instructions: Chapter 7
Further reading will be appointed by the lecturer.
Reference literature
Not mandatory.
Challenging the myth of gender equality in Sweden Martinsson Lena, Griffin Gabriele, Giritli Nygren Katarina Bristol : Policy Press : 2016 : 222 s. : ISBN: 9781447325963 Search the University Library catalogue
