Curriculum updates

Our course list and experiential learning opportunities are always expanding. Each term at DIS brings a new and exciting opportunity to enhance your students’ learning abroad.

This page includes a compiled list of what’s new at DIS.

New Core Courses

Two new Core Courses in our Computer Science and Neuroscience Programs will begin in spring 2025 and fall 2025.

  • Complex Networks (starts spring 2025)
    Students will explore computational and mathematical methods using a hands-on approach, the Python programming language, and the NetworkX library.
    Study Tour to Edinburgh
    Major Disciplines: Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics
  • Neuroscience of Fear and Anxiety (starts fall 2025)
    The popular elective course will become a Core Course, and students will explore the similarities and differences between these related emotions.
    Study Tour to Germany
    Major Disciplines: Biomedicine/Biotechnology, Neuroscience, Psychology

DIS lab and research opportunities

Students can gain international lab experience or join an engaged community of scholars across various disciplines to collaborate on their research project as a Research Assistant. Enrollment is competitive and requires an additional application during registration with DIS. Some prerequisites may apply.

  • Semester labs and research overview page
  • View all labs and research opportunities on the Course Finder

New elective courses

Business Potential of Generative Intelligence
Major Disciplines: Computer Science, Entrepreneurship
Starts spring 2025

Creative Marketing: Entertainment, Sports, and Events
Major Disciplines: Business, Entrepreneurship, Marketing
Starts spring 2025

Data and the Brain: Understanding Human Behavior through Big Data
Major Disciplines: Data Science, Neuroscience, Psychology
Starts fall 2025

Earth, Water, and Ice: Environmental Assessment in the Geosciences
Major Disciplines: Environmental Science, Geology, Geography, Mathematics
Starts spring 2025

Human-Computer Interaction
Major Disciplines: Computer Science, Design, Psychology
Starts fall 2025

Muslim Feminism in Europe
Major Disciplines: Anthropology, Gender Studies, Religious Studies, Sociology
Starts spring 2025

Philosophy of Money
Major Disciplines: Philosophy, Business, Economics
Starts spring 2025

Shifting Gears: Leadership Principles in Road Cycling
Major Disciplines: Leadership Studies, Management, Organizational Behavior
Starts spring 2025

New Data Science Program

Beginning in fall 2025, we have expanded our course offerings in Data Science. This new program includes a Core Course, as well as several new and existing elective courses featuring Data Science as a discipline.

New Core Course:

Data Analytics
Major Disciplines: Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics

Relevant Data Science electives:

Data-Driven Information Visualization
Major Disciplines: Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering
Starts spring 2025

Linear Algebra
Major Disciplines: Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics
Starts fall 2025

Statistics
Major Disciplines: Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics

Lab and research opportunities

Students can gain international lab experience or join an engaged community of scholars across various disciplines to collaborate on their research project as a Research Assistant. Enrollment is competitive and requires an additional application during registration with DIS. Some prerequisites may apply.

  • Forensic Psychology Lab
  • Medical Simulation Lab
  • Neuroscience of Emotion Lab
  • View all Research Assistantships on the Course Finder

New elective courses

Data Driven Information Visualization
Major Disciplines: Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering
Starts spring 2025

Fluid Mechanics
Major Disciplines: Engineering, Physics/Biophysics
Starts fall 2025

Healthy Minds and Bodies: The Science of Psychoneuroimmunology
Major Disciplines: Neuroscience, Pre-Medicine/Health Science, Psychology
Starts fall 2025

Linear Algebra
Major Disciplines: Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics
Starts fall 2025

Natural Language Processing
Major Discipline: Computer Science
Starts spring 2025

Thermodynamics
Major Disciplines: Physics/Biophysics
Starts fall 2025

The summer structure at DIS

Our summer structure remains the same after the changes made before summer 2024, so that all of our summer sessions are either three weeks long with a three-credit course or six weeks long with a six-credit course.

Your students can choose from courses across 6 sessions, 2 locations, and over 60 disciplines. They can stay for one session or combine sessions, earning up to 9 credits throughout the summer with DIS.

Study Tours remain included in all courses falling under Session 2, Furniture Design Sessions, and the Architecture & Design Session, plus select courses in other sessions.

View our summer overview

New summer courses

Arctic Marine Mammals
DIS Copenhagen, Session 2
Major Disciplines: Environmental Science, Biology

Beautiful Mistakes: The Psychology of Learning from Failure
DIS Copenhagen, Session 2
Major Disciplines: Education/Educational Studies, Human Development, Psychology

Brain and Behavior
DIS Copenhagen, Session 3
Major Disciplines: Neuroscience, Psychology

Digital Fashion and the Body
DIS Copenhagen, Session 3
Major Disciplines: Fashion Studies, Gender Studies, Design

Feminist Activism in Denmark
DIS Copenhagen, Session 1
Major Disciplines: Gender Studies, History

Neuroscience of Meditation and Yoga
DIS Stockholm, Session 3
Major Disciplines: Neuroscience, Pre-Medicine/Health Science, Psychology

Politics of Memory, The
DIS Stockholm, Session 3
Major Disciplines: Human Rights, Political Science, Public Policy