You will study the opportunities, problems and challenges that occur when people with different cultural and linguistic background meet. You will learn about social categories like ethnicity, nationality, class, race and gender, and how these categories are co-productive of cultural identities. And you will learn how to analyse and solve problems associated with cultural encounters.
The role of language is especially in focus in this course.
In addition, you will learn about the significance of language for cultural identity, and as a basic building block in the formation of world views.
There are five main areas in the programme:
- Cultural and language encounters, where you work with how different cultural and linguistic phenomena are affected when they meet.
- The dynamics of cultural and linguistic development, which deals with how language and culture change over time, and how external surroundings influence these developments.
- Sociocultural parameters, where focus is on the significance of gender, age, language, nationality, etc., in connection with language, culture and identity.
- Cultural and linguistic globalisation and localisation, which deals with the interconnection between the local and the global. It could be to study the Danes' encounter with foreigners, both inside and outside the country's borders.
- Theory, empirical studies and methods, where you, among other things, learn how to coordinate field work, process and interpret data, and disseminate your results.
Teaching varies between problem-oriented project work in groups, as well as lectures and classroom instruction. Students are encouraged to actively participate in class discussions.
Read more about Danish teaching methods on www.studyindenmark.dk.
If you choose to complete the bachelor's degree programme, you will graduate with the academic title of Bachelor of Arts (BA).