Master
Be part of the solution to societal challenges
The world is changing rapidly, which means that we face both big and small challenges in our shifting society. But how do we best solve these complicated problems?
Continuing education in social sciences, politics and economics provides you with research-based knowledge of how we create change through individuals, organisations, and societal structures.
Three steps: Understanding, analysis, action
The courses and educations teach you how to collaboratively create solutions for the challenges of today’s society by combining multidisciplinary insights in relevant ereas, such as climate, environment, diversity, digitalisation, and social media, with a research-based basis for understanding, analysing, and acting in response.
The courses are centred around anthropology, sociology, political science, and economy. The courses are also relevant if you have an educational background in a different subject than the aforementioned.
Are you looking for a course on social scienes, politics and economics that matches the needs of your company or organisation?
Courses can be customised and organised to enhance your employees’ skills within a specific area of your interest and that matches your reality.
| Course | Level | Start date | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creating Healthy Cities The course explores the built environment and examines how health and disease shape urban infrastructure and vice versa. It covers socio-political aspects of healthy urban living with a focus on disparities and migration challenges. Part of UCPH International Summer Programme. |
Master and PhD | August | 2 weeks |
| Global Health Challenges This course is designed to strengthen university students’ problem-solving competencies and increase their engagement in real-world global health related issues. students will collaborate in multidisciplinary teams to come up with the best solution to a case question provided by an external public or private partner. Part of UCPH International Summer Programme. |
Master | August | 2 weeks |
| Citizen Science This MSc course offers an in-depth introduction to citizen science: the involvement of the public in all levels of the scientific process. Citizen Science is an innovative method with the potential to collect large amounts of data over short time periods and is increasingly recognized for its enormous potential to make research relevant to the public by their involvement in the research process. Part of UCPH International Summer Programme. |
Master | July | 2 weeks |
| Global Health Solutions This course is designed to strengthen university students’ problem-solving competencies and increase their engagement in real-world global health related issues. students will collaborate in multidisciplinary teams to come up with the best solution to a case question provided by an external public or private partner. Part of UCPH International Summer Programme. |
Master and PhD | August | 1 week |
| The Economic History of Europe This comprehensive course offers theoretical and historical insights into the evolution of Europe. A special focus will be on the last 200 years of dramatic economic development, when a remarkable increase in income has been accompanied by recurrent crises and increased world inequality but decreasing domestic inequality. Part of UCPH International Summer Programme. |
Bachelor and Master | TBA | 3 weeks |
| Organization Theory Organization theory is an interdisciplinary field, and the course draws on perspectives from different social science disciplines. The course focuses on work organizations, both business organizations (private firms) and organizations within the public sector. Part of UCPH International Summer Programme. |
Bachelor and Master | TBA | 3 weeks |
| Science as a cultural human right This course will take a multidisciplinary approach to the right to science and to cultural rights in general, exposing students to fields outside their respective core disciplines of study. Among the topics focused on are scientific freedom and dissemination, the importance of international scientific collaboration, and the relationship between intellectual property and authors’ rights. Part of UCPH International Summer Programme. |
Master | July | 2 weeks |
| Managing and Analyzing Data in Social Science The course aims to develop students’ skills to conduct own data management and analysis through hands-on work in groups and mainly uses the free statistical software package R and briefly introduces the geographical information software Q-GIS. Part of UCPH International Summer Programme. |
Master | August | 3 weeks |