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STUDY IN ENGLISH 2014-2015 COURSE CATALOGUE Study in English 2014-2015 Åbo Akademi University Vammalan Kirjapaino, Sastamala 2014 This publication is also published online at: www.abo.fi/student/en/courses 2 Åbo Akademi University 2014/2015 Contents Welcome to Åbo Akademi University .................... 4 Natural Sciences .................................................... 80 Courses off ered in English ....................................................8 Geology ..................................................................................... 80 Academic Information ............................................................9 Mathematics ........................................................................... 80 How to Apply ..........................................................................12 Organic Chemistry ...............................................................81 Student services .................................................................... 14 Physical Chemistry ................................................................82 Contact information .............................................................17 Political Science and Public Administration ...... 83 Åbo Campus http://web.abo.fi /fa/ie/publikat/coursesdelade/courses1415abo.pdf Psychology and logopedics ..................................87 Arts ......................................................................... 20 Logopedics/Speech-language pathology.................... 87 Art History ................................................................................20 Psychology ............................................................................... 87 Comparative Literature ....................................................... 20 Comparative Religion .......................................................... 21 Social Sciences .......................................................90 History ....................................................................................... 23 Sociology .................................................................................. 90 Musicology .............................................................................. 25 Women’s Studies ....................................................................90 Nordic Ethnology .................................................................. 25 Nordic Folkloristics ................................................................28 Theology ................................................................ 93 Philosophy ............................................................................... 31 Church History ........................................................................93 Languages:............................................................................... 32 New Testament Exegetics ...................................................93 English Language and Literature..................................... 32 Old Testament Exegetics .....................................................94 French Language and Literature ..................................... 37 Judaic Studies .........................................................................95 German Language and Literature ...................................38 Russian Language and Literature ....................................40 Other courses and programmes ...........................95 Asian Programme 2014 .......................................................95 Biosciences ............................................................. 41 Environmental Studies ........................................................ 96 Biochemistry ........................................................................... 41 Baltic University Programme .............................................97 Cell Biology ..............................................................................43 Intercultural communication ............................................97 Environmental Biology ........................................................44 The Open University .............................................................98 Visual Studies ..........................................................................98 Business and Economics ....................................... 48 Accounting .............................................................................. 48 Language courses ...............................................101 Economics ................................................................................ 49 Swedish language Summer School, Information Studies ..............................................................49 August 2014 ...................................................................101 International Marketing .....................................................51 Centre for Language and Communication ................101 Organisation and Management .......................................53 Language courses at the Open University .................103 Swedish adult education centre (“Arbis”) ...................103 Chemical Engineering ...........................................54 Analytical Chemistry ............................................................ 54 Vasa Campus Fibre and Cellulose Technology ....................................... 56 http://web.abo.fi /fa/ie/publikat/coursesdelade/courses1415vasa.pdf Industrial Chemistry and Reaction Engineering ........58 Education .............................................................106 Industrial Management ...................................................... 58 Social Sciences .....................................................109 Inorganic Chemistry .............................................................59 Peace and Confl ict Resolution ........................................109 Paper Coating and Converting ........................................62 Social Policy ...........................................................................109 Process Control ...................................................................... 63 Language courses (Vasa Campus) ......................112 Process Design and Systems Engineering ....................64 Thermal and Flow Engineering ........................................65 Two-year Master’s Programmes Wood and Paper Chemistry ...............................................66 taught in English..................................................113 Information Technologies .....................................68 Course index/Åbo Campus .................................118 Computer Science & Computer Engineering ..............68 Information Systems ............................................................ 71 Course index/Vasa Campus ................................122 Law and Human Rights ......................................... 74 Åbo Akademi University 2014/2015 3 ÅBO CAMPUS Course information 2014-2015 Courses at the Åbo Campus Åbo Akademi University 2014/2015 19 ARTS Arts Comparative Literature The study of literature is about books. Their topic, more often than not, is human beings and being human. To this we add a load of books about books. Literary students aim to find out Art History how texts are made and have been made throughout history, and how they interact with readers and in society. It is quite The study of Art History at Åbo Akademi University conveys an exciting story. the basic methodical and theoretical knowledge of the The staff at the Department has weekly office hours when discipline, as well as abilities in describing and interpreting the students are welcome to study-counseling (at other times images, mainly works of art, design, and architecture from the by appointment). The course literature is available for reading past until today. Art historians at ÅAU study the significance at the Department. of images and buildings in their social, cultural and historical context but also the works of art as material objects. Introduction to Finland-Swedish literature 103700.1 Art and Architecture in Finland 10 credits 5 cr Lectured course Lectured course Basic level, no prerequisites Basic, intermediate, and advanced levels Offered: Spring 2015 Offered: Spring 2015 Lecturers: FM Freja Rudels and FM Katja Sandqvist Lecturer: Pia Wolff-Helminen Contact hours: 30 Aim & content: Finland obtained independency as late as Aim and content: The course focuses on twentieth-century 1917. Before that, for more than six hundred years, Finland Finland-Swedish prose and poetry in English translation. constituted the eastern part of the kingdom of Sweden. After Beginning with the modernists, Edith Södergran, Elmer Dik- years of devastating wars, Finland fell under the rule of the tonius, Gunnar Björling and Hagar Olsson, we also deal with Russian empire. The rather strained relation with the Russian post-war writers of poetry and prose such as Claes Andersson, power led to the rise of a strong national movement, the goal Bo Carpelan, Monika Fagerholm, Tove Jansson, Solveig von of which was eventually reached as one of the consequences Schoultz, Henrik Tikkanen, Märta Tikkanen and Kjell Westö. of the Russian revolution. The course provides an overview During the course we read poetry and prose from the twenti- of traditions and trends within architecture and visual art in eth century, as well as secondary texts which help us under- Finland, examining the influences of Swedish and Russian stand and discuss Finland-Swedish literature. We will discuss rule on the arts and the impact the independency had on