Closed on Thursday May 9

The department is closed on Thursday, May 9, due to public holiday.

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.)

About us and what we do

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

Xinglong: Studies Swedish, is an ambassador at the Student Union and prize winner of Global Swede

Xinglong Du, born in 1988, has studied Swedish for International Students and Researchers at our department, and is now studying Swedish as a Foreign Language: Svenska som främmande språk, förberedande kurs. He has a Master's degree from The Institute of International Education.

Xinglong: Studies Swedish, is an ambassador at the Student Union and prize winner of Global Swede

We have become a new department: The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism

On January 1, 2013 we formed a new department consisting of the Department of Scandinavian Languages, the Center for Research on Bilinguaism and the Institute for Interpretation and Translation Studies. Our new name is the Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism.

News

Sale of Compendia 2013-01-08
Our new English site 2012-12-20

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