Best Humanities in Sweden 2024

Performance – Folk Music/Art Music from Other Cultures

Royal College Of Music In Stockholm (KMH)

Sweden

Anthropology, Cultural Heritage, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Music

Bachelor's Degree

This Bachelor's Programme is aimed at you who practice or are curious about folk music from other cultures than the Swedish or on art music outside the western tradition. Whether you're a singer or instrumentalist, you get to develop your own music style with the help of the top teachers in the field.

English, Northern Sami

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Story Academy - A MasterClass in Screenwriting

Storyutbildningen

Online

Sweden

Creative Writing, Arts, Film Studies

Courses

A one-year, full-time distance course in scriptwriting for commercial feature films and drama series.

English

1 Year

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Master in Digital Narration: Game and Cultural Heritage

University of Skövde

Sweden

Cultural Heritage, Digital Marketing

Master's Degree

In the Digital Narration: Game and Cultural Heritage Master’s Programme, you will create narratives and learn how they can be integrated into computer games and other new digital media, particularly in the context of cultural heritage.

English

1 Year

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Master in Media and Communication Studies: Culture, Collaborative Media, and Creative Industries

Malmö University

Online

Sweden

Communication, Cultural Heritage

Master's Degree

The two-year master's program in Media and Communication Studies gives you advanced knowledge of digital media through practical approaches in the field. You will work creatively and in an explorative manner with different types of media while learning to evaluate them from a critical perspective.

English

1 Year

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Master in Culture and Change: Critical Studies in the Humanities

Malmö University

Sweden

Humanities, History, Philosophy, Cultural Heritage

Master's Degree

Critical Studies in the Humanities is a two-year master’s program aimed at students interested in better understanding various cultural phenomena, both past and present. The program will encourage you to think expansively and creatively about how culture is produced and reproduced, and why it is still a contested terrain. We explore and ask questions about issues of power, representation, memory, silence, and place.

English

2 Years

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MSc in Tourism Development and Culture

Lund University

Sweden

Cultural Heritage

Master of Science (MSc)

This two-year Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) programme provides an excellent opportunity for those new to tourism to engage and attain a broad grasp of the subject as well as a deep and analytical insight into aspects of tourism development, culture and related industries. This is an exciting and innovative new programme offered by the University of Glasgow, Dumfries Campus (Scotland), the University of Malta (Malta), Lund University (Sweden) and the University Institute of Lisbon (Portugal). You will graduate with a joint degree awarded by the relevant partners. By studying with a combination of these partners, you will be taught by world-class experts in the areas of social science analysis of tourism, heritage, business innovation and sustainability.

English

2 Years

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Master of Arts in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies

Linnaeus University

Sweden

Anthropology, History, Cultural Heritage, Foreign Languages and Literatures

Master of Arts (MA)

We live at a time when questions of climate justice, global migration flows, and militarized landscapes daily remind us of colonial pasts, and how they shape our world today. The master’s program in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies is tailored for you who seek to investigate and understand colonial practices of power and their manifestations in the past and the present.

English

2 Years

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Master of Arts In English Language and Literature

Linnaeus University

Sweden

Humanities, Literature

Master of Science (MSc)

This is a two-year program at the second level with English as its main field of study. You can choose to specialize in linguistics or literature, or a combination of these.

English

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MM in Church Music

Lund University

Sweden

Theology and Religious Studies, Fine Arts, Music

Master of Arts (MA)

The Master’s in Church Music programme aims to educate musicians that possess high artistic, educational and professional abilities. We offer specialisations in Arrangement and Composition, Organ and Keyboard, and Vocal Music and Choir. On completion of the programme, the student must possess advanced knowledge and skills in order to work within the various functions and engagements of a professional musician – either as a soloist, a member of an established ensemble or as a church musician within the Church of Sweden or within other denominations.

English

2 Years

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Master of Arts in Media Cultures: Intermedial and Multimodal Studies

Linnaeus University

Online

Sweden

Communication, Cultural Heritage

Master's Degree

Master of Arts in Media Cultures: Intermedial and Multimodal Studies. Are you interested in literature, film, comics, art, music, fashion, or journalism? This program offers a broad media-oriented perspective on narration, meaning-making, learning, and truthfulness in art and communication.

English

1 Year

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Master of Arts in Media, Democracy and Human Rights

Linnaeus University

Online

Sweden

Social Sciences, Political Science, Communication, Humanities

Master's Degree

Master of Arts in Media, Democracy, and Human Rights. Are you interested in analyzing the media’s role in society? Do you want to influence media development in line with democratic principles and human rights? This master’s program enables you to become an active agent in media development in an international context.

English

2 Years

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MA in Human Rights Studies

Lund University

Sweden

Social Sciences, Law, International Relations, Public Policy, Humanities

Master of Arts (MA)

The Master’s programme in the interdisciplinary field of human rights, with a profile within the humanities, combines historical, philosophical, political and legal perspectives on the complex phenomena that human rights represent in our world. Our teaching faculty reflects the academic width of the Master’s programme. We are committed to the view that human rights need to be regarded and studied not only as ethical principles or grounds for law and policy but also as part of the infrastructure of a democratic society. Students have the opportunity to complete an internship, fieldwork, or study aboard as part of their studies.

English

2 Years

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Master of Arts in Digital Humanities

Linnaeus University

Online

Sweden

Humanities, Information Systems, Digital Marketing

Master of Arts (MA)

Are you interested in cultural heritage as well as digitalization? Digital humanity is an interdisciplinary field of study that represents a bridge between the arts and humanities to information technology. It further stretches beyond academia, mainly through collaboration with the cultural heritage sector.

English

2 Years

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13 Best Humanities in Sweden for 2024

Performance – Folk Music/Art Music from Other Cultures

Story Academy - A MasterClass in Screenwriting

Master in Digital Narration: Game and Cultural Heritage

Master in Media and Communication Studies: Culture, Collaborative Media, and Creative Industries

Master in Culture and Change: Critical Studies in the Humanities

MSc in Tourism Development and Culture

Master of Arts in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies

Master of Arts In English Language and Literature

MM in Church Music

Master of Arts in Media Cultures: Intermedial and Multimodal Studies

Master of Arts in Media, Democracy and Human Rights

MA in Human Rights Studies

Master of Arts in Digital Humanities

Humanities, Sweden