Program Overview

Program Overview

The program in question is "Världsbyggande i olika medier," which translates to "World-Building in Different Media." It is a course offered at a university, focusing on the art of creating immersive worlds in various forms of media, including TV series, computer games, and audio productions.

Course Description

Världsbyggande is the art of creating a world that the audience wants to enter and stay in. This course provides a broad introduction to how different narrative media use methods to form such worlds. Students study fundamental concepts in world-building and dramaturgy and see how they are used in TV series, computer games, and sound walks.

Course Structure

The course begins with a lecture on central concepts in world-building and dramaturgy. This is followed by conversations with professional screenwriters, game developers, and performing artists who share their working methods. Students have the opportunity to compare these methods with examples from assigned works in TV, games, and audio. The course concludes with a seminar where students deepen their analysis of the methods and relate them to the course's reference material.

After the Course

After completing the course, students can analyze and understand different ways to create fictional worlds and see how professional storytellers work in different media. This provides a good knowledge base for further education or work in performing arts, games, film, TV, or sound production, where understanding world-building and dramaturgy is central.

Course Details

• Level: Grundnivĺ (Basic Level)
• Credits: 7.5 högskolepoäng (Higher Education Credits)
• Language: Svenska (Swedish)
• Study Location: Distans (Distance)
• Course Code: SKĹA99

Admission

Requirements

For admission to the course, 90 högskolepoäng (Higher Education Credits) with a scenic-artistic orientation are required, within film science, literature, theater science, media and communication science, system science, game design, or equivalent.

Selection

Places are allocated as follows: Grades 20%, Higher Education Entrance Exam 10%, and the number of previous higher education credits on the last application date (up to 165) 70%.

Fees

For EU Citizens

The course is free of charge for citizens of EU/EES countries and Switzerland.

For Non-EU Citizens

The total price for the course is 50,625 SEK. An application fee of 900 SEK is also required when applying via UniversityAdmissions.se.

University Overview

The university offering this course is part of a larger academic community with various faculties, including those for humanities and theology, law, engineering, medicine, science, and social sciences. It has a rich array of research areas and public activities, including museums, botanical gardens, and science centers.