This elective introduces students to the study of world literature from different regions (e.g. Scandinavia, Europe, UK, US, Africa, Caribbean). World literature is often understood as a literature that gains value from translation, which is something this course will explore by combining several national literatures in one course. World literature is also a literature tied to certain ‘worldy’ themes of profound importance today, such as climate change, migration, demography, inequality, AI, health etc. And world literature is also intimately related to certain functions of both aiming to facilitate and to problematize intercultural understanding and communication. To read the literature of many different regions is to gain a deep and special knowledge of their cultural differences and similarities. The course stimulates students to work theoretically and practically with using literature to enlarge their imaginations and examine global cultural differences and similarities to facilitate intercultural understanding and envision social transformation.