Courses and seminars at the Faculty of Social Sciences
PhD-candidates at the Faculty of Social Sciences should register for courses via Studentweb or through the application links provided under course descriptions. Candidates from other faculties and universities must register through the application link or administrative responsible for the specific course.
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Courses autumn 2025
GOV901: Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change, 4-22 August
Courses spring 2025
BSRS: Various PhD coruses at the Bergen Summer Research School, 10-20 June
GOV904: Climate Politics and Autocratization, 25-26 March
VITSV900: Philosophy and Ethics of Social Sciences, 27.01.-05.02.
Courses autumn 2024
GOV901: Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change.
ECON913: Labor Market Adjustment to (Local) Economic Shocks. 2-5 September, 2024.
INFO900: Introduction to Learning Analytics. September- November 2024
Courses spring 2024
HOL900: Holberg Prize PhD Masterclass 2024: “Thoughts on the Planetary”. 02.05.2024-06.06.2024
SANT909: Anthropology of life: Contemporary Anthropologies of More-Than-Human Socialities. 22.04.2024-26.04.2024
SAMPOL907: Deep Learning for Social Scientists. 18.04.2024-19.04.2024
GOV903: Gendered Autocratization. 21.03.2024-22.03.2024
SAMPOL904: Panel and Pooled Data Analysis. 18.03.2024-20.03.2024
SAMPOL906: Better Data Visualization (using R). 14.02.2024-15.02.2024
N-POC903: Multidisciplinary Methodologies for Global Challenges: Pacific Research Narratives. 15.01.2024-15.03.2024.
VITSV900: Philosophy and Ethics of Social Sciences. 29.01.2024-02.02.2024
Courses autumn 2023
Courses spring 2023
VITSV900: Philosophy and Ethics of Social Sciences
SANT907: Using the mobile phone as a tool for visual documentation in the field. 17.-18. and 26.04.2023
SANT908: Radical science in the Anthropocene: Prospects and perils. 17.-20. April 2023
GOV902: Accounting for Time: Public Bureaucracies in a Changing Environment. 15.-21 June 2023
GEO903: Political Ecology of Land and Food Systems. 30. mai -2. juni 2023
Courses autumn 2022
AORG908: Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change. 15.08.2022-30.08.202.
SAMPOL904: Panel and Pooled Data Analysis. 15.08.2022-19.08.2022
INFO900: Introduction to Learning Analytics. 29.08.2022- 05.12.2022
MET900: Qualitative Digital Methods for Social Scientists. 12.09.2022 - 15.09.2022
SDG900: PhD for Innovation. Interdisciplinary course from systems thinking through creative problem-solving to R&D management. 14.11.2022 - 18.11.2022
MEV905: Towards a counter-hegemonic bottom-up creation of concepts. 01.12.2022 - 02.12.2022
Courses spring 2022
VITSV900: Philosophy and Ethics of Social Sciences. 14.02.2022-18.02.2022.
INFO901: Introduction to AI Ethics. Week 10 and 11.
SAMPOL903: Advanced Quantitative Text Analysis. 28.03.2022 - 29.03.2022.
SANT906: New technologies and the future of the human. 28.03.2022 - 31.03.2022.
ECON912: Topics in the Industrial Organization of Education Markets. 09.05.2022-12.05.2022.
MEVI904: Understanding media experience. 07.06.2022 - 10.06.2022
Courses autumn 2021
MET900: Qualitative Digital Methods for Social Scientists. 13.09.2021-16.09.2021
SDG900: PhD for Innovation. Interdisciplinary course from systems thinking through creative problem-solving to R&D management. 13.09.2021-17.09.2021
AORG908: Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change. 09.08.2021- 23.08.2021 (preparatory period from 2 August)
AORG909: Accounting for Time: Public Bureaucracies in a Changing Environment. 06.12.2021 - 10.12.2021
Courses spring 2021
INFO900: Introduction to Learning Analytics. 15.03.2021- 08.06.2021
Courses autumn 2020
Courses spring 2020
DIGSSCORE900: Survey Experiments: Design and Data Analysis. 04.05 - 06.05.2020
AORG907: Introduction to Systematic Review (SR) and the use of SR in Social Science. 17.06. - 19.06.2020 (25.06.2020*) *Full course only.
Courses autumn 2019
SAMPOL902: Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change
Courses spring 2019
VITSV900: Philosophy and Ethics of Social Sciences
GEO-SD900: PhD for Innovation - Interdisciplinary problem solving and Creativity. 7 - 8 May and 21 - 23 May 2019
AORG906: Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). 20 -24 May 2019
Courses autumn 2018
SAMPOL902: Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change. 15- 24 August
GEO901: Production and Interpretation of Qualitative Data. 11-14 September and 17-18 October
Courses spring 2018
VITSV900: Philosophy and Ethics of Social Sciences.
Courses autumn 2017
Courses spring 2017
VITSV900: Philosophy and Ethics of Social Sciences.
ECON911: The Economics of Exclusion. 21-26 April 2017
DIGSSCORE900: Survey Experiments: Design and Data Analysis. 26- 28 April 2017
SOS905: Transitions to adulthood in times of inequality: the changing impact of intergenerational relations. 30 May to 1 June 2017
SANT904: Capitalism for Anthropologists. 26-28 June
UPED634: University pedagogics for PhD candidates. 22. March, 26. April and 24. May
Courses autumn 2016
Fixed activities
- Introductory seminar is held every semester
- Mid-way seminar is held every winter
- Course in Philosophy of Social Sciences is held every winter
- Seminar in academic writing is held every winter
- Seminar on database search and reference managing is held every autumn