One-year programme

Equality and Diversity

– About the programme

Demonstration, photo: Mongkhonsawat Luengvorapant/Oxfam - lisens: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en - the photo is cropped

It is part of Norwegians' understanding of self that Norway is a land of equal opportunity, and the international society also seem to expect it from us.

This one-year programme place a good foundation for the understanding of what Norwegian equality and diversity entails, both in Norwegian and international context.

The one-year programme consists of four courses with the following focus:

  • Theoretical, historical and thematically introduction to the debates of gender, sexuality and ethnicity
  • Norwegian equality politics in a global context
  • The new information technology and the social media's significance for equality and quality of life
  • Gender, ethnicity and communication at work

The programme is taught in Norwegian, except for the course KULT2208 Gender and Norwegian Culture: Paradoxes of Equality II.