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Fleeing Across Borders: International Refugee Law

Global North states have all undertaken to provide asylum and related human rights protections to people forcibly displaced from their homes in the Global South, however these legal obligations are normally only triggered when people seeking…

Sustainable Food: Production and Consumption

This course focuses on concrete and innovative solutions that reshape our connection to food. These solutions recognize and address the environmental and social impacts of food. Critical questions include: What is the true cost of food?…

Sustainable Food: Production and Consumption

Visual Culture of Cities

This course examines how contemporary visual urban culture and visuality in the public realm facilitate communication of political and societal values in a city. With Copenhagen and Berlin as our cases, we examine how a city…

Visual Culture of Cities

Food, Taste, and Waste

Sustainable development in food is becoming increasingly important in the agri-food sector and the global economy, in political debates, and in many consumers’ minds. In this course, we look into current sustainability trends in food consumerism…

DIS Summer - Food, Taste, and Waste

European Biodiversity

European biodiversity is characterized by great variation in habitats, that is dynamic and constantly evolving in response to changes. Such changes occur gradually and naturally on a long-time scale but with the impact of humans, changes…

European Biodiversity, Summer Course

Postcolonial Europe: Narratives, Nationalism, and Race

This course examines European colonial narratives and how they continue to inform current discourses of immigration, culture, and race in Europe. A comparative approach in this course allows for a deconstruction of national narratives of exceptionalism,…

Postcolonial Europe

Sustainable Development in Northern Europe

This course helps you to better understand the complex societal challenges of sustainable development from a European perspective. Specific focus is given to the interplay between social, environmental, and economic solutions to address sustainability challenges on…

DIS Summer Course in Copenhagen, Sustainable Development in Northern Europe

Humanitarian Law and Armed Conflict

This course is an examination of the laws of armed conflict and human rights laws and how they apply to contemporary cases. It finds inspiration in current events and enables you to analyze issues such as…

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The Good Life

In this course, we examine the foundations of ‘the good life’ as they surface in Danish and Continental European philosophy, with a particular focus on human freedom, authenticity, and the search for meaning, fulfillment, and happiness.…

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Healthcare Systems: A Comparative Approach

Different countries choose different approaches to the provision of healthcare. Through this course, you gain insight into how healthcare is organized and financed in Denmark and Northern Europe, and you investigate the impact of the social,…

Health Delivery and Prioritization, DIS Summer Course