790G86 · 7.5 credits · Basic level (G1N) · Religionsvetenskap
Terrorism, Violence and Religion, basic course
Active · next start HT 2026
100%
passed the latest regular sitting
UPG2 · 20 Dec 2025 · 23 students
100%
passed the regular sittings, all sittings over the last 5 years
UPG2 · 42 students
This module only reports passing results, so the pass rate does not show how many did not pass.
Hand-in or lab
UPG2 Written report: project about extremism
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- B
- C
- D
- P
Main rounds
100% passed · 42 students
- 100%23
- 100%12
- 100%7
Later rounds
100% passed · 24 students
- 100%19
- 100%5
- Pass a later round: 100% (24 students), compared with 100% (42 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get B or A: 20% (66 students)
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Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
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Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
UPG1 Written report: extremism
- A
- B
- C
- P
Main rounds
100% passed · 46 students
- 100%19
- 100%8
- 100%12
- 100%7
Later rounds
100% passed · 19 students
- 100%19
- Pass a later round: 100% (19 students), compared with 100% (46 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get B or A: 78% (65 students)
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Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
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- 100%1
- 100%1
Other module
RED1 Oral presentation: project about extremism
- C
- D
- P
Main rounds
100% passed · 38 students
- 100%19
- 100%12
- 100%7
Later rounds
100% passed · 24 students
- 100%19
- 100%5
- Pass a later round: 100% (24 students), compared with 100% (38 students) on the ordinary exam
Show small sittings (5)
Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
- 100%1
- 100%1
- 100%1
- 100%2
- 100%1
About the course
Aim
After completion of the course the student should be able to - in a structured manner discuss violent extremist groups, how their views on violence vary, and how they challenge democratic societies, - problematize central terms in the course such as radicalization and extremism and how the concept of religion is used to single out certain violence as religious in contrast to secular violence, - identify, formulate and solve a scientific problem about violent extremism, and - reflect on one's own responsibility for how knowledge about violent extremism is used in today's society.
Content
This course is an introduction to violent extremism within established religious and political traditions as well as within contemporary new age. It problematizes terms such as radicalization and extremism and how the concept of religion is used to single out certain violence as religious in contrast to secular violence. The course addresses a number of concrete examples and discusses how different groups legitimize violence as a means of social change in the light of theories about the emergence of violent extremism. The course also discusses how violent extremism challenges democratic institutions and raises questions about religious freedom.
- Examiner
- Fredrik Gregorius
- Main field of study
- Religionsvetenskap