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 External link., which has staff from the subjects of Swedish, Rhetoric and English.
All the school’s subjects offer freestanding Bachelor’s courses. These can be combined to lead to a degree. Eight 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; and Rhetoric Studies.
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.