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Faculty of Culture and Society
Culture and Society
At the Faculty of Culture and Society, research and education concerns many of the major issues of our time – for example those dealing with global politics, new media and sustainable urban development – from humanistic, social science, and design science perspectives.
The faculty is a creative, evolving and cross-border academic environment characterised by a high degree of internationalisation and collaboration with others, both inside and outside the academy. We are located in the centre of Malmö, but our perspectives cover the whole world. We are organised into three departments: Urban Studies, Global Political Studies and the School of Arts and Communication.
Objective for academic environments
The Faculty of Culture and Society has, as tasked by the Vice-Chancellor, during the academic year 2022/2023 developed an agenda for coherent and boundary-crossing academic environments, including an objective and strategic priorities for the next three years.
KS agenda for coherent and boundary-crossing academic environments
Objective 2026
The main objective is that by 2026, KS will be home to eight coherent and boundary-crossing academic environments (see descriptions below) — that is, areas where the faculty conducts high-quality research, education at all levels and collaboration, both nationally and internationally.
- Three of these academic environments will primarily be based in the School of Arts and Communication (K3)
- Three in the Department of Urban Studies (US)
- Two in the Department of Global Policy Studies (GPS)
The academic environments transcend both departmental and faculty boundaries and include collaboration partners from academia and beyond, in Sweden and other countries. It is also important to emphasise that the objective is contingent on the possibility of employees being part of multiple environments, and that the environments are intrinsically cross-disciplinary.
The images only visualise the contact areas of the environments within Malmö University.
Environments at KS, and their relations to each other and to environments at other faculties.
HS – Faculty of Health and Society; LS – Faculty of Education and Society; TS –
Faculty of Technology and Society; OD – Faculty of Odontology
Education at Culture and Society
The Faculty of Culture and Society has education in fields including communication, design, peace and conflict studies, human rights, international relations, leadership and organisation, political science, gender studies, environmental science, real estate science and sustainable urban development.
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Programme, master’s level | 60 credits
Communication for Development
1 September 2025 - 6 June 2027Open for application -
Programme, master’s level | 120 credits
Culture and Change - Critical Studies in the Humanities, Master's Programme (Two-Year)
1 September 2025 - 6 June 2027Open for application -
Programme, bachelor’s level | 180 credits
European Studies - Politics, Societies and Cultures, Bachelor's Programme
1 September 2025 - 4 June 2028Open for application -
Programme, bachelor’s level | 180 credits
Human Rights
1 September 2025 - 4 June 2028Open for application -
Programme, bachelor’s level | 180 credits
Interaction Design
1 September 2025 - 4 June 2028Open for application -
Programme, master’s level | 60 credits
Interaction Design, Master's Programme (One-Year)
1 September 2025 - 7 June 2026Open for application -
Programme, master’s level | 120 credits
Interaction Design, Master's Programme (Two-Year)
1 September 2025 - 6 June 2027Open for application -
Programme, bachelor’s level | 180 credits
International Migration and Ethnic Relations
1 September 2025 - 4 June 2028Open for application -
Programme, master’s level | 60 credits
International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Master's Programme (One-Year)
1 September 2025 - 7 June 2026Open for application -
Programme, master’s level | 120 credits
International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Master's Programme (Two-Year)
1 September 2025 - 6 June 2027Open for application -
Programme, bachelor’s level | 180 credits
International Relations
1 September 2025 - 4 June 2028Open for application -
Programme, master’s level | 120 credits
Leadership and Organisation: Societal Challenges and Organisational Changes, Master's Programme (Two-Year)
Various start and end datesOpen for application -
Programme, master’s level | 60 credits
Leadership for Sustainability, Master's Programme (One-Year)
Various start and end datesOpen for application -
Programme, master’s level | 60 credits
Media and Communication Studies: Culture, Collaborative Media, and Creative Industries, Master's programme (One-Year)
1 September 2025 - 7 June 2026Open for application -
Programme, master’s level | 120 credits
Media and Communication Studies: Culture, Collaborative Media, and Creative Industries, Master's programme (Two-Year)
1 September 2025 - 6 June 2027Open for application -
Programmes and courses
Nordic Urban Planning Studies, Master's Programme (Two-Year)
What is a city and who are the key actors in urban development?...
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Programme, bachelor’s level | 180 credits
Peace and Conflict Studies
1 September 2025 - 4 June 2028Open for application -
Programme, master’s level | 60 credits
Political Science: Global Politics and Societal Change, Master's Programme (One-Year)
1 September 2025 - 7 June 2026Open for application -
Programme, master’s level | 120 credits
Political Science: Global Politics, Master's Programme (Two-year)
1 September 2025 - 6 June 2027Open for application -
Programme, master’s level | 120 credits
Urban Studies, Master's Programme (Two-Year)
Various start and end datesOpen for application -
Programme, master’s level | 120 credits
Urban Studies: Urban Business and Development - Real Estate and Transport, Master's Programme (Two-year)
Various start and end datesOpen for application
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Programme, grundnivå | 180 hp
Fastighetsföretagande
1 september 2025 - 4 juni 2028 -
Programme, grundnivå | 180 hp
Fastighetsförmedling
1 september 2025 - 4 juni 2028 -
Programme, grundnivå | 180 hp
Företagsekonomi: Transport Management
1 september 2025 - 4 juni 2028 -
Programme, grundnivå | 180 hp
Grafisk design
1 september 2025 - 4 juni 2028 -
Programme, grundnivå | 180 hp
Hållbar arkitektur och urban gestaltning
1 september 2025 - 4 juni 2028 -
Programme, avancerad nivå | 60 hp
Hållbar stadsutveckling: Ledning och organisering - magisterprogram
Various start and end dates -
Programme, avancerad nivå | 60 hp
Ledarskap och offentlig organisation, magisterprogram
1 september 2025 - 7 juni 2026 -
Programme, grundnivå | 180 hp
Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap: Kritik, handling och gestaltning
1 september 2025 - 4 juni 2028 -
Programme, grundnivå | 180 hp
Miljövetarprogrammet - Människa, miljö, samhälle
1 september 2025 - 4 juni 2028 -
Programme, grundnivå | 180 hp
Mångfaldsstudier
2 september 2024 - 6 juni 2027 -
Programme, grundnivå | 180 hp
Produktdesign
1 september 2025 - 4 juni 2028 -
Programme, grundnivå | 180 hp
Stadsbyggnad, stadsutveckling och planering
1 september 2025 - 4 juni 2028 -
Programme, grundnivå | 180 hp
Statsvetenskap: Politik, organisation och ledning, kandidatprogram
2 september 2024 - 6 juni 2027 -
Programme, grundnivå | 180 hp
Visuell kommunikation
1 september 2025 - 4 juni 2028
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Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
Artificial Intelligence - Ethics, Regulation, and Everyday Politics
Various start and end dates -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
Business Administration: Entrepreneurship and International Strategy
10 November 2025 - 18 January 2026 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
Business Administration: Leadership and Organisation from a Global Perspective
1 September 2025 - 9 November 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
Caucasus Studies
Various start and end dates -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
Character Design
1 September 2025 - 9 November 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 7,5 credits
Children's Best Interests in Theory and Practice
15 December 2025 - 18 January 2026 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
Climate Change and Global Politics
Various start and end dates -
Course, master’s level | 15 credits
Communication for Development: Advances in Social Action, Planning and Evaluation
1 September 2025 - 9 November 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
Creative Writing I
1 September 2025 - 18 January 2026 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
Creative Writing II
Various start and end datesOpen for application -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
Creative Writing Project
1 September 2025 - 18 January 2026 -
Course, master’s level | 15 credits
Critical Humanities - Ideas on the Move
2 September 2024 - 19 January 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
Cultural Politics in the Anthropocene: Global and Local Perspectives
Various start and end datesOpen for application -
Course, bachelor’s level | 7,5 credits
Design in Collaboration
9 June 2025 - 17 August 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
Digital Comics
1 September 2025 - 18 January 2026 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
English for Professional Purposes
1 September 2025 - 18 January 2026 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
European Law
31 March 2025 - 8 June 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
European Studies I: Europe as a Field of Knowledge - Politics, Cultures and Societies from the Past to the Present
2 September 2024 - 19 January 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
European Studies II: European Studies Research Areas and Methodology and Minor Thesis
1 September 2025 - 18 January 2026 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
European Studies II: The Governance of the European Union and its Role in the World
20 January 2025 - 30 March 2025Open for application -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
Filmmaking I
20 January 2025 - 8 June 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
Filmmaking II
1 September 2025 - 18 January 2026 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
Gender Studies I
20 January 2025 - 8 June 2025Open for application -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
Georgian I
2 September 2024 - 19 January 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
Global Politics of Artificial Intelligence - Transnationalism, Agency, and Governance
Various start and end dates -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
Human Rights I
2 September 2024 - 19 January 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
Human Rights II
20 January 2025 - 8 June 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
Human Rights III
20 January 2025 - 8 June 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
IMER II: Europe and International Migration
31 March 2025 - 8 June 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
IMER II: The Challenges of Ethnic Diversity
20 January 2025 - 30 March 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
IMER III: Research Methodology and Bachelor Thesis
20 January 2025 - 8 June 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
IMER Research Areas
20 January 2025 - 8 June 2025Open for application -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
IMER Research Methods and Minor Thesis
1 September 2025 - 18 January 2026 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
Imagining Catastrophe
31 March 2025 - 8 June 2025Open for application -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
Interaction Design
20 January 2025 - 8 June 2025Open for application -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
International Migration and Ethnic Relations I
2 September 2024 - 19 January 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
International Peace and Security - Public International Law and International Politics
2 September 2024 - 19 January 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
International Relations I
2 September 2024 - 19 January 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
International Relations II
1 September 2025 - 18 January 2026 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
International Relations III
20 January 2025 - 8 June 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
Journalistic and Documentary Comics
20 January 2025 - 8 June 2025Open for application -
Course, master’s level | 15 credits
Media and Communication Studies: Digital Technologies, Activism, and Social Movements
10 November 2025 - 18 January 2026 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
Peace and Conflict Studies I
2 September 2024 - 19 January 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
Peace and Conflict Studies II
20 January 2025 - 8 June 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
Peace and Conflict Studies III
20 January 2025 - 8 June 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
Postcoloniality and Intersectionality
2 September 2024 - 10 November 2024 -
Course, master’s level | 30 credits
Problems and Questions in Contemporary IMER Research
2 September 2024 - 19 January 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 7,5 credits
Public International Law
11 November 2024 - 19 January 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
Storytelling - Narration Across Media
2 September 2024 - 19 January 2025Open for application -
Course, bachelor’s level | 7,5 credits
The Environment and Human Rights
10 November 2025 - 14 December 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 30 credits
The Law and Practice of the United Nations - Model United Nations
20 January 2025 - 8 June 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 7,5 credits
The Right to Life and Modern Conceptions of Life
6 October 2025 - 9 November 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
The Video Essay as Contemporary Media
10 November 2025 - 18 January 2026 -
Course, master’s level | 15 credits
Urban Studies: Applications of Spatial Economics
31 March 2025 - 8 June 2025Open for application -
Course, master’s level | 15 credits
Urban Studies: Spatial Economics
20 January 2025 - 30 March 2025Open for application -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
Visual Communication in Contemporary Media
11 November 2024 - 19 January 2025 -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
War in the Visual Arts: Representations of War in Photography and Film
20 January 2025 - 8 June 2025Open for application -
Course, bachelor’s level | 15 credits
Working-Class Literature - Historical and International Perspectives
1 September 2025 - 18 January 2026
Research at KS
Our research
The Faculty's research publications in the database Diva.
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2025 | Chapter in book
På rejse med organisatorisk læring.: Hvordan jeg blev den jeg er.
Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen
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2025 | Chapter in book
Introduction: Post-Arab Spring artistic activism in Southwest Asia and North Africa
Tijen Tunali, Josepha Wessels
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2025 | Chapter in book
Al Šar'a Alna? (the street is ours?): Writing the street in Beirut
Erin Cory
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2025 | Chapter in book
A Video Store After the End of the World: Material Speculation & Media Infrastructures Beyond the Cloud
Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter, Kristoffer Gansing
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2025 | Chapter in book
Walls and revolution in Sudan: Street art and graffiti of the Sudanese revolution 2019
Josepha Wessels, Ahmad Al Naji
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2025 | Collection (editor)
Art Against Authoritarianism in South West Asia and North Africa
Tijen Tunali, Josepha Wessels
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2025 | Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
The post-urbanization of Tokyo: its spatio temporal geography and governance
Eigo Tateishi
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2025 | Chapter in book
Working-Class LIterature(s)
Magnus Nilsson
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2025 | Article in journal
Does Job Search Assistance Reduce Unemployment?: Evidence on Displacement Effects and Mechanisms
Maria Cheung, Johan Egebark, Anders Forslund, Lisa Laun, Magnus Rodin, Johan Vikstrom
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2025 | Book
Enemy Images: Emergence, Consequences and Counteraction
Kristian Steiner, Andreas Önnerfors
Doctoral studies at the Faculty
At Culture and Society, we have doctoral studies in the subjects Global Politics, Interaction Design, International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER), Media and Communication Studies, Organisation Studies, and Urban Studies. In order to be admitted to postgraduate education, you must be employed as a doctoral student at the same time.
Departments at Culture and Society
Faculty management
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Annika Olsson - Dean/Associate Professor
annika.olsson@mau.se
+46 40 665 76 78Faculty of Culture and Society
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Derek Stanford Hutcheson - Professor/Pro dean
derek.hutcheson@mau.se
+46 72 546 68 34Faculty of Culture and Society
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Maria Wiktorsson - Vice Dean/Senior lecturer
Vice dean for education
maria.wiktorsson@mau.se
+46 40 665 72 55Humanities, Languages and Cultural Production
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Christel Brost - Senior lecturer
Dean's Council, Anna Lindh Academy
christel.brost@mau.se
+46 40 665 78 75Humanities, Languages and Cultural Production
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Helene Waldeck - Head of administration
helene.waldeck@mau.se
+46 40 665 70 73Faculty office, Faculty of Culture and Society