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Find exchange courses

As an exchange student, you are expected to have a full-time study plan of 30 credits per semester during your study period at Lund University.

Courses offered by LTH

You can freely choose courses suitable for exchange students from different programmes at LTH, as long as you have the academic requirements and the necessary supporting documents. Please observe that some courses have a limited number of seats.

Swedish language course for LTH students

Courses taught at the Department of Scandinavian Languages at Lund University, free of charge for exchange students at LTH:

  • EXTA24 Beginner's level, equivalent to SVEE11.
  • EXTA25 Continuation, equivalent to SVEE12.

Lund University offers higher level courses for exchange students, the so-called SVEE courses. The SVEE courses are suitable for you who already know Swedish.

Swedish language courses (Centre for Languages and Literature's website)

If you intend to take one of these courses you can add it to your Study Plan. 

Courses offered by other faculties

Lund University offers more than 700 courses across a wide range of subjects that are suitable for exchange students. Please note that you can study up to 15 credits at another faculty. 

Courses at other faculties (Lund University's website)

Special Area Studies

Exchange students can apply for “Special Area Study” (SAS) courses in subjects such as Swedish culture and society, European studies, regional courses and global issues of contemporary interest. 

Information about Special Area Studies (Lund University's website)

An introduction to Information Security (SASC01)

The course is suitable for anyone who wants to have an increased general understanding of information security and how it affects the systems and products that we interact with in everyday life. The knowledge gained from this course is useful not only in your everyday life when interacting with computers, products and applications, but also in virtually any profession due to the widespread use of computers.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites required
Number of credits: 7,5 credits. 

Information about "An introduction to Information Security" (website of the Department of Electrical and Information Technology)

Grading scales

Please note that no ECTS grades are awarded for any of the courses offered att LTH. 

Course list suitable for exchange students

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