71 Social Science Degree Programs in Sweden

The Global Studies: Sustainable Societies and Social Change (One Year) problems such as climate change, loss of biodiversity and increasing pollution add to existing problems with social inequalities and injustices. It is high time to reverse the current trend. To create sustainable societies and social change, the programme therefore uses applied research and is based on close cooperation between the academic world and society. For the thesis work, you will work independently but together with a host organisation (within the non-profit, public, or corporate sector) and with the support of a supervisor to develop and formulate a thesis project. The project will focus on creating sustainable societies and and contributing to long-term social change, as well as fulfilling the academic standard for a master's thesis at an advanced level.

Explore leadership for sustainable change with a International Master’s Programme in Leadership for Sustainable Development – Sociology. Gain critical tools to analyze social systems, manage transformation, and drive sustainable development in diverse and complex societies.

This inspiring and interdisciplinary master's program from Linnaeus Universityis designed for those passionate about peace, development and international development co-operation. It explores the relationship between poverty, conflicts and sustainable development, and considers political room formanoeuvre for change.Students will analyze current research along with practical work carried out by international institutions, non-governmental organisations and social movements. When working on the final thesis, students may work together with an organization or conduct a field study in a developing country, providing the opportunity to discuss how development issues can be solved in real politics.

International Master's Programme in Environment, Sustainability and Global Development combines natural and social sciences, focusing on multidisciplinary knowledge and skills required to analyse and address some of the world’s most challenging environmental and sustainability problems.

The Bachelor in European Studies programme provides you with further knowledge and a deeper understanding of Europe and the European Union today and historically, including its position and role from a global perspective. You will be introduced to a variety of disciplines and perspectives on Europe, with a combination of theories and insights from the fields of political science, history, geography, law, culture, and literature.

This two-year Master’s programme provides an in-depth understanding of how public health can be promoted through socially sustainable development. You will gain knowledge of social, economic, political, and environmental factors affecting health, as well as of global change, health systems, and policy processes.

The LeaDS - Learning, Digitalization, and Sustainability (One Year) program is based on frontline research in digitalization and education. In close collaboration with society, you will apply research to diverse educational settings, where the analytical focus will be on sustainable and ethically defendable learning designs. The programme works at the intersection of media, communication, and language from the perspectives of social sciences, the humanities as well as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. The area covers how digitalization processes can be implemented in sustainable and responsible ways.

Do you want to contribute to the sustainability of an ageing society and the well-being of an ageing population? Then this is your master’s programme.

Communication for Development (ComDev) is an interdisciplinary field combining studies on culture, media, communication, and development. ComDev explores communication within contexts of articulating global and local processes of social change. This is a half-time study programme, combining courses on culture, communication, and development and integrating them with practical fieldwork. It explores the use of communication - both as a tool and as a way of expressing processes of social change - within the context of globalisation.

Population aging and rising inequalities are marked trends worldwide, while globalization, digitalization, urbanization, migration, and changing gender relations are having profound effects on our lives. A longer living population presents global challenges and opportunities that affect every aspect of our lives, such as welfare, the environment, health, finance, housing, and employment. Gaining a profound understanding of the potentials and challenges of aging is crucial for the well-being of humankind and the sustainability of society.

Become an agent for change! This one-of-a-kind master’s program makes you highly skilled in analyzing how social and cultural change can be initiated or sustained by integrating a critical understanding of gender and intersectionality.

Political policies and decisions shape the social, economic, and environmental context in which we live. This programme offers new perspectives on how knowledge production, practical experience, and learning can drive societal change through applied work-integrated political studies.

This three-year bachelor's programme provides you with in-depth knowledge of Peace and Conflict Studies as a field, including its historical and theoretical foundations and its key analytical and methodological approaches. Moreover, you will get insights into specialised subject areas within the field, such as civil society and social movements; media, propaganda, and enemy images; and the role of the United Nations.

The Bachelor in International Migration and Ethnic Relations programme gives you a solid foundation for a career dealing with migration and diversity-related issues such as asylum law, segregation, discrimination, social cohesion, globalisation, and integration, or for further studies at the Master’s level. Migration, especially its effects on a global scale, has become one of the most fundamental issues concerning societies worldwide. Governments, corporations, politicians, and individuals all over the world try to grasp the possibilities and concerns of increasing mobility on a global scale.

The overall purpose of the master programme Global Peace, Justice and Well-Being is that students shall acquire in-depth knowledge within the interdisciplinary field of global peace, justice and well-being. Many of the present as well as future challenges. Peace, justice and well-being are mutually linked together and interdependent. Without peace it is difficult to build justice and well-being and vice versa, without justice and well-being it is difficult to maintain the peace.