DIS Stockholm - Global Economics
Nation-states face rapidly shifting challenges in maintaining growth and managing distribution of resources. Analyze outcomes and proposed economic solutions, as people and governments find new and sustainable ways of distributing resources.
IS THIS PROGRAM FOR YOU?
It’s a good fit if you study:
- Economics
- Finance
- Government
CORE COURSE
Fall/Spring, 3 Credits
This course explores the role of public institutions in the economies of advanced industrialized countries, taking a comparative look at a variety of systems for public goods with respect to taxation, social benefits, unemployment, health care, public pension schemes, parental leave, childcare, and education. We consider a variety of microeconomic tools, using these to analyze current policy debates in Scandinavia.
Week-Long Study Tour: Frankfurt-Strasbourg
Core Course Week: Study tour within Sweden + a two-day seminar in Stockholm
Prerequisites: One course each in macro- and microeconomics and one course in either intermediate or advanced microeconomics, all at university level.
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Discover how the city has become the focal point for cultural expression, social change, and political tension. Often symbolizing freedom and upward mobility, the city promises a better life while also creating challenges and fears.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- Use Copenhagen as your classroom on field studies that explore its dramatic urban change from the development of a welfare state to a cutting-edge, sustainable, resilient, and livable city
- Travel with your faculty and classmates on course-integrated study tours to compare how cities develop their infrastructure in Eastern and Western Europe
- Engage in a dynamic dialogue with a variety of guest lecturers including local historians, sociologists, and urban planners
STUDENT PROFILE
This program is right for you if you study urban design, urban studies, politics, or sociology and wish to examine contemporary cities through a multidisciplinary academic lens.
CORE COURSE
Fall/Spring, 3 Credits
Cities are both creative and destructive friction machines, full of contradictory tensions, goals, and visions about what constitutes the good life. This course examines the driving forces of this friction within a European context, including social, economic, environmental, technical, cultural, historical, and spatial influences.
Week-Long Study Tour: Budapest-Vienna
Core Course Week: Study tour to Northern Germany + a two-day seminar in Copenhagen
DIS - Study Abroad
Copenhagen, Denmark and Stockholm, Sweden
How are security threats defined and responded to in a changing Europe? Explore the complexity of European security and intelligence dilemmas in light of the movement of people and increased tensions among nations.
IS THIS PROGRAM FOR YOU?
It’s a good fit if you study:
- Global Studies
- Government
- International Relations
- Political Science
CORE COURSE
Fall/Spring, 3 Credits
Europe is under pressure and what constitutes a security threat is changing, too: a larger Russian presence in the region and increased risk of terrorism, but also fundamentalist and right-wing tendencies, the risk of pandemics, cyber terrorism, and European governments struggling to respond in unison to increasing numbers of refugees. Drawing on European schools of thought within international security studies, this course explores current intelligence and security dilemmas in Europe.
Week-Long Study Tour: Berlin
Core Course Week: Study tour within Sweden + a two-day seminar in Stockholm
Prerequisite: One international relations or political science course at university level.
DIS - Study Abroad
Copenhagen, Denmark and Stockholm, Sweden
