All second level courses, including the courses in English, run for ten or twenty weeks and represent 15 or 30 ECTS-credits each. The courses are, unlike in many other countries, studied consecutively and not parallelly. When you study the course descriptions below, please note that the number of hours of teaching is always much less than the actual number of hours that the students are supposed to dedicate to their studies. The number of hours of teaching can vary a lot between different courses and weeks, but this has no connection to the number of course-credits. The Swedish equivalent of 30 ECTS-credits is 20 Swedish credits.
All courses have a restricted entry and competition is usually keen.
It is recommended that you make a second and also a third choice in your course application in case you are not admitted to your first, or second option. You can only study the courses you have been admitted to and normally you are only admitted to one course at a time. The deadlines for application to the courses in English is 15 June or 15 October depending on what semester you wish to study. Brief on Fundamental Pedagogical Principles A variety of teaching methods are used at the Faculty of Law in Uppsala, and constantly experimenting with new methods is going on. There are however some fundamental pedagogical principles common for all teachers of the Faculty.