What’s New at DIS?
The DIS curriculum is now published now through the spring of 2018 so that you can help your students plan well ahead! Below is an overview of all that is new in curricular updates that you should be aware of in advising for both our Copenhagen and Stockholm locations.
DIS Copenhagen
DIS Copenhagen: Programs & Core Course Updates
- Program Name Change: Starting in spring 2017, this program will restructure into four programs based on its four strong core course themes:
Environmental Science of the Arctic
- New Core Course: Polar Biology starting in fall 2017 with a Week-Long Study Tour to Norway
- Core Course & Study Tour Location Change: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness Core Course is moving from the Psychology Program here as of spring 2017. Students will travel to Amsterdam in the fall semester, and Bologna-Florence in the spring semester
- Study Tour Location Change for Positive Psychology Core Course: The Milan study tour will now go to Milan-Verona, and the Krakow-Warsaw study tour will be going to Krakow-Poznan as of spring 2017
- Core Course Name Change: Cultural Diversity and Social Capital will be called Cultural Diversity and Integration as of spring 2017 and its week-long study tour will go to Italy
DIS Copenhagen: New Electives (Listed by Semester)
Spring 2017
- Adaptive Re-use in Europe: Cities and Buildings – New
- Applied Piano – no longer has a prerequisite
- Business Strategies in the Transition Toward a Sustainable Economy replaces Business Strategies in the Green Industries
- Changing the News: Constructive Journalism replaces Changing the News: Communication and Positive Psychology
- Creative Nonfiction Workshop – new prerequisite
- Neuroimaging of the Diseased Brain – New
- Nordic Noir replaces Scandinavian Crime Fiction
- Psychology of Endings – now running both fall and spring
- Rhetoric of Gaming and its Cultural Impact replaces Rhetoric of Gaming in Scandinavia
- Sound Engineering and Music Production replaces Tonmeister
Fall 2017
- Computational Analysis of Big Data – New
- Consumer Behavior and Marketing Research – New
- Environmental Problems and Human Behavior (Visiting Faculty Course – fall 2017 only)
- Happiness Lab: Positive Psychology – New
- Identity Lab: Transforming Prejudice, Discrimination, and Conflict – New
- International Reporting: Denmark as Your Beat – New
- Online Surveillance, Privacy, and Cybersecurity – New
- Physical Activity and Mental Health: From Culture to Neuroscience (Visiting Faculty Course – fall 2017 only)
- Religion in Crisis
- Words that Work – New
DIS Copenhagen: New Summer 2017 Courses
Session 1
- Environmental Philosophy – New
- Behavioral Economics: European Case Studies – New
- Storytelling through Photography – New
Session 2
- Children in a Multicultural Context – study tour change to London
- Cross-Cultural Communication + Study Tour to Belfast-Dublin – New
- Globalization and European Economies + Study Tour to Luxembourg-Munich – New
Session 3
- Arctic Ecology + Study Tour to Svalbard – New
- European Greenspace + Study Tour to Essen, the European Green Capital for 2017 – moves to Session 3 from Session 1
- Sex Education and Sexual Reform in Europe + Study Tour to Berlin – New
DIS Stockholm
DIS Stockholm: New Programs & Core Courses
- New Core Course: Imagining the Other in European Literature starting in fall 2017 with a Week-Long Study Tour to London-Oxford
- New Core Course: Public Finance: European Perspectives starting in fall 2017 with a Week-Long Study Tour to Frankfurt-Strasbourg
International Relations Program
- New Core Course: European Security Dilemmas and Intelligence starting in fall 2017 with a Week-Long Study Tour to Berlin
Positive Psychology
- New Core Course: Positive Psychology starting in fall 2016 with a Week-Long Study Tour to Greece
- New Core Course: Public Health and Migration starting in fall 2017 with a Week-Long Study Tour to Geneva
DIS Stockholm: New Electives (Listed by Semester)
Spring 2017
- Psychology of Political Behavior
- Public Health and Migration (New! Running as an elective in spring 2017. Changing into a core course for fall 2017)
- Storytelling Lab: How Narrative Works
Fall 2017
- Economics of Gender
- Economics of Global Monetary Policies and Capital Flows
- Epidemiology: Swedish Case Studies
- Glued to the Set: TV Shows, Norms, and Culture
- Medical Ethics
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Philosophy of Technology and Human Values
- Positive Psychology Practicum: Methods and Practice
- Transgender in Scandinavia
- Ways of Seeing: Storytelling through Photography