This course explores the modern phenomenon of the "ecological" disaster by critically examining a range of ecological disasters and the role that they have played in the popular imagination of Germany, Norway, and Sweden. By rigorously analyzing these television shows, students will try to understand how these disasters make themselves felt in serial narratives and visual motifs meant to be accessible to a mass audience. Taught in English.

A study of artists and authors with a migrant or ethnic minority background and their representations of self and others in literature, film, art, and music. Taught in English.