Causal inference is the task of drawing conclusions from data about the effects of treatments and other type of interventions. In epidemiology and clinical research, as well as in many other fields, ...

Lectures and seminars are given in English. All parts of the exam may be taken either in English or a Scandinavian language. In this course we will study aspects of the cultural history of magic, ...

This course addresses gender, violence and sexuality through presenting and discussing literature, analytical perspectives and empirical case studies on sexual violence. The course critically ...

The course aims to give insight into a standard description of the English language and into the relationship between the meaning and the grammatical form of sentences and texts. Frequent comparisons ...

The first part of this course is an introduction to the study of semantics on both word and sentence level. The second part gives insights into theories of language use, particularly the part of ...

Why and how do human activities generate international environmental problems? How can we best account for patterns of success and failure in efforts to create or strengthen international institutions ...

The focus in this course is on how economic aggregates evolve over time and on how this evolution is shaped by economic agents who are taking account of how their present decisions will affect their ...

The main objective of the course is to discuss the use of taxes and public expenditures for promoting socially efficient resource allocation and a desirable income distribution. The analysis of tax ...

Ethnographic research is a qualitative method that is increasingly sought after as a skill in a variety of workplaces. This course explores the use of anthropological theory and method in non-academic ...

We are witnessing an explosive rise in the popularity of the blockchain paradigm, the technology that enables cooperative economic models without a central administrator. While originally inspired by ...

This course gives an introduction to the Scandinavian/Norwegian welfare state focusing on family policies, gender equality and family change. Theoretically, the course is informed by gender ...

Observation is a central type of methodology in the educational sciences. This PhD course aims to introduce the participants to observation as a research method, by providing an overview of and ...