Culture and Education
The school offers education at Bachelor’s, Master’s and doctoral levels, and research is conducted in all subjects.
The School of Culture and Education offers the following subjects: Aesthetics, Art History, Comparative Literature, English, Gender Studies, Media and Communication Studies, Philosophy, Rhetoric and Swedish, as well as the Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge. The Development Unit for Higher Education Pedagogy is also located at the school. Additionally, any student at the university, regardless of their academic school, can get help from the Study Support Unit
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All the school’s subjects offer freestanding Bachelor’s courses. These can be combined to lead to a degree. Nine Bachelor’s programmes are based at the school: Aesthetics; Communication Management; Gender Studies; Liberal Arts; Media, English and Globalisation; Media Studies; Philosophy, Politics and Economics; Rhetoric Studies; Bachelor’s Programme in Literature with Creative Writing and Literary Criticism; and Bachelor's Programme in Drama with Creative Writing and Writing for the Stage.
Most subjects also offer one or two-year Master’s programmes, and many also have degree-awarding powers at doctoral level. The school has around 40 active doctoral students, most of whom are associated with the research area of Critical and Cultural Theory; research projects often span the boundaries between subjects and schools, and many have links to the Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe.
Studies in the Educational Sciences is a research area that is located within Teacher Education; it includes the subjects of Comparative Literature, Media and Communication Studies, Swedish and the Theory of Practical Knowledge. Many subjects at the School of Culture and Education work with Teacher Education, as the school’s teaching staff work on the university’s teacher training programmes.
The School of Culture and Education has around 250 staff and is led by the head of school and deputy head of school. It conducts education at Bachelor’s, Master’s and doctoral levels, and all its subjects conduct research and external collaboration. The school has eight academic departments, each led by a head of department:
- Department of Media and Communication Studies
- Department of Aesthetics, Art History
- Department of Comparative Literature
- Department of Philosophy and Practical Knowledge
- Department of Rhetoric
- Department of English
- Department of Swedish
- Department of Gender Studies
The School of Culture and Education also has the research area of Critical and Cultural Theory External link., as well as the Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge External link., the Development Unit for Higher Education Pedagogy External link. and the Study Support Unit External link.. The school also has an administrative unit.