Third-cycle courses
Luleå University of Technology offers general third-cycle courses available to doctoral students in the following areas; theory of science, research ethics, research methodology, communication for researchers and leadership. The departments also give other courses with subject-wide or in-depth content.
General courses in 2024-2025
Read more about the courses in the lists below.
Spring 2024
- FOR049F Research Ethics 4.5 credits
Opens in new window. - FOR013F Introduction to programming for modelling and simulation 4.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR055F Branding you for doctoral students 2.0 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR048F Structures in academic English 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR046F Applied Bayesian data analysis 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR042F Philosophy of Science 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR054F, Multivariate statistical methods, 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
Autumn 2024
- FOR052F Writing a literature review 2.0 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR050F Gender and equality 2.0 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR030F Sustainable Development 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR041F Instrumental Analysis - X-ray diffraction (XRD) 5.0 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR055F Branding you for doctoral students 2.0 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR043F Project management 4.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR044F Academic publishing 4.5 credits Opens in new window.
Spring 2025
- FOR047F Case study methods 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR049F Research Ethics 4.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR058F Linear Algebra 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR057F Reach out with your message - Oral communication for a broader audience 2.0 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR048F Structures in Academic English 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR042F Philosophy of Science 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
- Applied life cycle assessment 7.5 credits, FOR056F
Autumn 2025
- FOR045F Experimental Methods and Design of Experiments 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR050F Gender and equality 2.0 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR051F Qualitative research: theory and method 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR044F Academic publishing 4.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR040F Instrumentell analysis - scanning electron mikroscopy (SEM) 5.0 credits Opens in new window.
Courses depending on department
Departments third-cycle courses
On the departments websites you can find information about courses with subject-wide and in-depth content given by the departments.
Social Sciences, Technology and Arts
- FOR052F Writing a literature review 2.0 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR055F Branding You for doctoral students 2.0 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR045F Experimental methods and design of experiments 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR047F Case study methodology 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR050F Gender and equality 2.0 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR030F Sustainable Development 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR057F Reach out with your message - Oral Communication for a Wider Audience 2.0 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR043F Project Management 4.5 credits (FOR043F will be implemented in HT 2024) 4.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR044F Academic Publishing 4.5 credits Opens in new window.
- ETKS010 Introduction to design research 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
Health, Education and Technology
- FOR049F Research ethics 4.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR051F Qualitative research: theory and method 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR054F Multivariate statistical methods 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR048F Structures in Academic English 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR042F Theory of Science 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
- HLT0001 Quantitative research methodology in health sciences ECTS/HP: 5.0 Opens in new window.
- HLT0002 Qualitative research methodology in health sciences ECTS/HP: 5.0 Opens in new window.
Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
- FOR041F Instrumental analysis - X-ray diffraction (XRD) 5.0 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR040F Instrumentell analysis - scanning electron mikroscopy (SEM) 5.0 hp Opens in new window.
- Introduction to Thermal Analysis: Principles, Techniques and Applications
Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering
Engineering Sciences and Mathematics
- FOR058F, Linear Algebra, 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
- FOR046F, Applied Bayesian data analysis, 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
- TVM0025, Functional Analysis, 7.5 credits Opens in new window.
- TVM0023, Introduction to PhD studies at TVM, 4.0 credits Opens in new window.
- TVM0026, Sustainable Hydrogen Value Chains
- TVM0027, Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Applied life cycle assessment 7.5 credits, FOR056F
- TVM0028, Systems perspectives on biomass resources
- TVM0005, Fuel conversion during thermochemical conversion technologies
Skills development courses and training
Some of the courses may give credits if the principal supervisor accepts the course as a part of the doctoral students individual study programme.
Courses that the doctoral student´s principal supervisor deems to be included in the doctoral degree are registered in the study documentation system Ladok with the principal supervisor as examiner.
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