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Courses 2024
Norwegian History
The course provides a survey of Norwegian history. The first half covers the first migrations to Norway; social, political, and mythical traditions of the Viking period; the format...
How Democracies Emerge and Survive
This course introduces the academic study of how democracies emerge, sustain, and break down. Following the optimism of the so-called third wave in the 1980s and 1990s, democracy i...
Business Continuity and Sustainability Management
In this course, you'll learn how to run a business smoothly and responsibly. We'll teach you how organizations can tackle challenges, make ethical decisions, and lead long-lasting...
Norwegian Language Course, Advanced
Intensive Norwegian language course Takes you to level B2 in Norwegian, which is required for certain studies and jobs in Norway. See more information on our website.
Norwegian Language Course, Elementary Level
This is an intensive course. Elementary Norwegian language course Course content Intensive Elementary Norwegian level I is an intensive course offered in the summer semester...
Art in Norway
The course provides a survey of Norwegian visual art from the early medieval period to contemporary art. Primary focus is on painting, but developments in sculpture, architecture,...
International Development Studies
The course provides a multidisciplinary analysis of global poverty and of development on global, national and local levels. A thematic approach is applied. Country comparisons are...
Norwegian Language Course, Intermediate Level
Intensive Intermediate Norwegian level II is an intensive course offered in the summer semester. Students work primarily with non-fiction texts and exercises with themes from Norwe...
International Politics
The course offers an introduction to the academic study of international politics. It begins with a basic introduction to international relations theories, in order to provide the...
Excel Programming and Automation
This course focuses on how to take advantage of Excel’s programming and automation functionalities, with no prior knowledge or experience necessary. It will give you a competitive...
The Fundamentals of Human Rights
This 3 week course consists of lectures and seminars during the first three weeks of the summer session, with a take home exam the following week.The course offers an introduction...
Peace Research
The course provides a general introduction to this interdisciplinary field with an empirical focus. This is combined with more detailed study of selected areas and themes. Major to...
The Norwegian Welfare State
This course presents the historical background, development and present-day challenges of the Norwegian welfare state. It examines the role of values and norms in shaping the servi...
Purpose-Driven Brand Management
Unlock the potential of brands to create a better world with our course "Purpose-driven Brand Management". In this course, we will explore the power of brands as catalysts for posi...
Gender Equality in the Nordic Countries
The course gives an introduction to the Nordic context and an overview of how the concept and implementation of gender equality has developed and is currently practiced in the Nord...
From Ibsen to Fosse. An Introduction to Norwegian Literature
The course explores select classic and contemporary plays, poems, short stories, and novels by Norwegian authors. Analyze literary texts and reflect on their intersections with gen...
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Courses 2022
The Sustainable Career: Burnout, Boundaries, and Balance in Business
In today’s always-on, plugged-in business climate, many of us are pulled by the perceived 24-hour demands of the job - whether we actually are working extra hours or whether our th...
Latin America in the New Global Resource Politics
This digital course consists of lectures and seminars during the first week of the summer session, with a take home exam the following week. In this course you will learn about Lat...
Nynorsk
online courseThe course lasts three weeks and the teaching takes place in the first half of the summer school. The course provides a historical overview of the development of Nynorsk from Ivar...
Multisensory experiences
Most of our everyday life experiences are multisensory in nature. They involve many, if not all, of our senses, that is, sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, just to mention th...
Courses 2021
Addressing the Climate Emergency through Education
online courseKey considerations in this course include the developing focus on the significance of ‘pyropedagogies’ - what is expected of education 'when our house is on fire' (Greta Thunberg)...
Collecting and Analyzing Big Data
online courseThis course is an introduction to collecting and analyzing "big data" for social scientists. Over the last decade, the variety and types of data available to researchers have explo...
Ethics and Politics of Care
online courseThis course will examine the ethics and politics of care. We will not begin with the presumption that care is a self-evident good. Nor is our goal to posit a definitive theory of c...
Race, Islam and the Idea of Europe
online courseThis course will explore how and in what way ideas of Europe have emerged that rely, firstly, on particular understandings of Islam and, secondly, on forms of racialization or race...
Democratization and Autocratization in a Comparative Perspective
online courseThe predominant discourse today says that democracy is in crisis. But the world is much more democratic than 200 years ago, and there is obviously much variation in how rulers get...
Mixed and Merged Methods: Toward a Methodological Pluralism
online courseFrom the 1990s Mixed Methods Research (the integration of “qualitative and quantitative approaches or methods in a single study or a program of inquiry” - Tashakkori and Creswell 2...
Nordic Civil Society – a model for the world?
online course‘Nordic Civil Society – a model for the world?’ studies the role of civil society associations in Norden and beyond, and their roles in relation to the Nordic model of society. Foc...
Multisensory experiences
online courseMost of our everyday life experiences are multisensory in nature. They involve many, if not all, of our senses, that is, sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, just to mention th...
The art of storytelling for business practices
online courseStories engage and persuade by playing on our emotions. They influence our professional work life in areas as diverse as organizational sensemaking and capital market performance....
Controversy Mapping and Computational Anthropology: Digital Methods Between the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide
online courseThe past twenty-five years have seen a host of new digitally mediated fields becoming available to researchers in the social sciences and humanities. The shift is not only in the v...
The (hi)stories multinational companies tell
online courseThe overall goal of the course is for students to learn how company (hi)stories are created and used as strategic, immaterial assets. Multinational companies narrate stories about...
Gender in Academia and the Professions
online courseThis is a theoretically and empirically based lecture course on the social construction of gender within the labor markets of academia and other professions. We start out study wit...
Global Urban Policy Mobilities
online courseHow are we to understand the making of urban policy in a globalizing world? In what ways do policies emerge in one place and then appear and reappear in other locations? What ha...
Case Study Research Methods
online courseThe course will begin with a focus on the philosophy of science, theory construction, theory testing, causality, and causal inference. With this epistemological grounding, the semi...
Courses 2020
Ethical Hacking
The topics covered in this course will prepare students who have interest in the security sector by introducing them to concepts in the ethical hacking field along with providing h...
Technology and Society
Digital competence is a key factor in ensuring the employability of candidates in all professions vital to our society. This course will provide a fundamental understanding of some...
Intercultural Management: A Scandinavian Perspective
The course focuses on comparing Scandinavian and Norwegian cultures with other cultures in the international business arena. This context will provide the backdrop for understandin...
Digital Methods and Transformation: Applied Social Network Analysis
Digital technologies are increasingly permeating the way we work, live, and think. A crucial aspect of the digital transformation lies in the ever increasing amount of data that is...
Neuro-insights: Data Science Approaches in Neuroscience
Because most young researchers in life and health sciences do not have a solid quantitative background, they face difficulties when analyzing data independently. This difficulty re...
Deep Learning for Medical Imaging
Medical technology has a different set of constraints than consumer technology, including needs for sterilization, higher reliability (& associated standards), and customization to...
Research Methods in Data Science
What is Data Science, how do we approach problems in Data Science and how can Data Science contribute towards a sustainable future? In this course, we will try to review these ques...
Innovative e-governance in local democracy
Electronic governance (e-governance), generally understood as the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in various spheres of political life, plays a significant ro...
Introduction to Programming
This course is focusing on the development of basic programming techniques, analytical thinking, comprehension of code and problem-solving skills achieved through a programming-bas...
Analytical Methods and Unruly Concepts
In this course we set out to explore analytical methods as tools to ‘make’ concepts. Ethnographic concepts are an achievement of fieldwork and writing practices. They blend the emp...
Courses 2019
Digital Methods and Transformation - Applied Social Network Analysis
Digital technologies are increasingly permeating the way we work, live, and think. A crucial aspect of the digital transformation lies in the ever increasing amount of data that is...
Intercultural Management: A Scandinavian Perspective
The course focuses on comparing Scandinavian and Norwegian cultures with other cultures in the international business arena. This context will provide the backdrop for understandin...
European Integration Summer School
Each course carries 10 ECTS: - History, Institutions and Policies of European Integration ST-419 (summer, campusbased) - Current Issues in the European Union ST-420 (summer, ca...
Winter School in Empirical Research Methods (GSERM)
BI Norwegian Business School offers in co-operation with the University of St. Gallen the fourth Winter School in Empirical Research Methods in Oslo from 7-18 January 2019 as part...
Courses 2018
Intercultural Management - A Scandinavian Perspective
4 Key Learning Modules: Week 1: Focus on intercultural management Week 2: Institutional factors, leadership and marketing in focus within a Scandinavian perspective Week 3: D...
Digital Transformation - Applying Social Network Analysis
About the course Digital technologies are increasingly permeating the way we work, live, and think. This summer school course intends to equip students with a set of analysis t...
Courses 2017
Winter School - Global School in Empirical Research Methods (GSERM)
BI Norwegian Business School will in co-operation with the University of St. Gallen host the second Winter School in Empirical Research Methods in Oslo from 9-20 January 2017 as pa...
Courses 2014
Current debates on the European Union
This advanced course provides students with the opportunity to study a topic of their choice pertaining to the content of ST-419 and/or ST-420 in greater depth. Topics may reflect...
Current issues in the European Union
Course contents This courses studies in great depth particular aspects of the political system of the European Union and policies and the methodology of European studies. Top...
History, Institutions and Policies of European Integration
Course contents This course explores core features of the political system of the European Union and addresses amongst other topics: •the history of European unificatio...