The Swedish Section
Välkommen - Welcome
The University of Melbourne is the only tertiary institution in Australia, which offers Swedish. You can major in Swedish, and you can go on to postgraduate study – we offer both an MA and a PhD. The staff members of the Swedish Section are Anna Berghamre, Convenor of Swedish, and Ms Maria Lindaräng, Tutor in Swedish.
Our students typically have some specific interest in Sweden or Scandinavia, but their reasons for taking our subjects are extremely varied. Some have been on student exchange to Sweden or Scandinavia as part of their high school experience, others have a Swedish parent or grandparent who is Swedish, and yet others simply want to learn a foreign language and take part of another culture as a way of enriching their own life.
The Swedish Section offers subjects at all language levels from Beginners level to Advanced. Students with no prior knowledge of the language start in the Beginners stream and those who have some Swedish skills already may be permitted to enrol in the Intermediate stream.