Programme and Course Syllabus Master’s Programme in War and Defence

Course Syllabus

Master's Programme in War and Defence
Semester	Course
Semester 1	The study of war and conflict (15 credits) Research Design and Methods, War studies (15 credits)

Semester 2	Elective courses

Semester 3	Master's Thesis, War Studies (30 credits)

Semester 4	Internship, War studies (30 credits)

Semester 2 and 4, examples of elective courses	Civil-Military Relations, reading course (7,5 credits) Proxy Wars, Interventions and Covert Operations (7.5 credits) Gender, Security and War (7.5 credits) War and Society (7,5 credits) When war comes to the city: Urban wars and urban warfare (7,5 credits) Political Psychology and Crisis Management (7,5 credis) Public Policy Analysis, reading course (7,5 credits) European Security and Crisis Management ( 7,5 credits) From Diplomacy to Deception: Influence through Strategic Narratives (7,5 credits) Environment, Risk and Security: Life in the Anthropocene (7,5 credits) Political communication: Information influence as a security problem, reading course (7,5 credits) Secret Intelligence (7,5 credits) Connectivity and Combat - War, the Media and the Contemporary Information Ecology (7,5 credits) NATO-Organization, Community, Actor (7,5 credits) Defence Strategies of the Nordic Countries (7,5 credits) The Russo – Ukraine war: multidisciplinary perspectives (7,5 credits)