Power Critical Analysis

Education facts

Code: SVAM11

This is a specialisation course on power critical studies of social phenomena. It comprises two different components. The first component requires students to study, discuss, and review the basic assumptions of power critical studies through a focus on the relation between ontology, epistemology, and methodology. Power critical perspectives are also contrasted with other prominent analytical approaches used in the social sciences, such as institutionalism and rational choice. The second component introduces three different models as examples of approaches that can be used for power critical analysis. Students work actively to analyse contemporary social phenomena based on discourse theory, governmentality theory, and assemblage theory.

Entry requirements

90 ECTS credits in Political Science with at least 30 ECTS credits at the G2F level or higher, including a degree project (15 ECTS credits), and upper secondary level Swedish 3 or B or Swedish as a Second Language 3 or B and English 6 or A, or equivalent

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Power Critical Analysis

  Karlstad University

  Karlstad

  Start date: 3 May 2027

  End date: 6 June 2027

  Pace of study: 100 %