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

  • 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
  • Starts spring 2025

Neuroscience of Fear and Anxiety

  • 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
  • Starts fall 2025

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.

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.

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