About us and what we do

At the Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism at Stockholm University we are approxinmately 90 staff members. 70 of them are at the former unit Scandinavian Languages, doing research on and teaching in the subjects Swedish, Swedish as a second language and Scandinavian languages for about 3,000 students every year. We offer two Bachelor's programme and one Master's programme, and approximately 60 courses each semester. (These figures will be updated, since we became a new department on January 1 together with a center and an institute.)

Our research

Current research in the unit that was the former Department of Scandinavian Languages largely fall under the following areas:

Contemporary Swedish language use in society
The Swedish language system
Swedish historical linguistics and philology.

Research areas

A good command of Swedish is required

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism at Stockholm University offers a wide range of courses. At the unit that is the former Department of Scandinavian Languages, the majority of the courses are studies in Swedish, Swedish for second language teaching and Scandinavian languages (such as Norwegian, Danish, Viking-age and medieval texts), all of which require a good command of Swedish.

A good command of Swedish is required

News

Schedules autumn 2013: Swedish for International Students 2013-08-29
Sale of Compendia 2013-08-12
Our new English site 2012-12-20

Events calendar (usually in Swedish)

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