About the Department of Scandinavian Languages

In 1859, a professorship in Scandinavian Languages was established at Uppsala University. Today, we are a large department with around a hundred employed teachers, researchers and administrators. Every semester, more than a thousand students study with us. Here, one can study Scandinavian languages from several different aspects. The Swedish language is at the centre of the department’s teaching and research, but we also offer courses in Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic, which is unique to the department. The department’s activities also include the Language Workshop and National Tests in Swedish and Swedish as a second language.

We have professorships with four different specialisations: name research, modern Swedish, sociolinguistics and the history of Scandinavian languages. Research is conducted in a large number of sub-disciplines, such as student language, dialectology, philology, grammar, name research, runology, sociolinguistics, stylistics and Swedish as second language.