Karlskoga Folk High School
- an introduction
Karlskoga Folk High School is a college for adults. Folk high schools are a special kind of schools launched in the middle of the nineteenth century and located to the Nordic countries. They offer education to adults. The admittance age is usually eighteen. The schools give a wide range of courses, nowadays also vocational education. Popular movements and NGOs mostly run them, sometimes county councils.
The Swedish Covenant Church runs Karlskoga Folk High School. Every year approximately 220 students from all over Sweden, and from about 15 other countries, come to our school to attend our courses. Some live nearby and commute every day; 80 students stay in the school accommodation, where each room has got a private bath.
Karlskoga Folk High School provides a meeting place where diverse views, values, and philosophies of life may be tested in a free and open exchange. The school wants to create an open and supportive atmosphere and a social community where drinking and drugs are not accepted.
Beside the regular classes the school offers various other activities, such as social evenings, culture programs (theatre, concerts, lectures), arts and crafts work and sports.
For more information, please contact:
Educational Adviser Anette Valdemarsson, email: anette.valdemarsson@folkbildning.net
Principal Elaine E Lindblom, +46 586 646 01.
Postal address:
Karlskoga folkhögskola
Rektor Lindholms väg 23
691 44 Karlskoga, Sweden
Fax: +46 586 646 22
E-mail: karlskoga.fhsk@folkbildning.net
Courses
- – The Aphasia course gives special training in reading, writing and speaking for those who have suffered brain damages through strokes, traffic accidents etc.
- – The General Course offers opportunities for adults to catch up with knowledge they may have failed to achieve in the past. They can also improve and further their knowledge in order to apply for a place at a university.
- – The Immigrant Course for students from other countries who want to study Swedish as a second language on basic and advanced levels. We don't run courses for beginners.
- – A two-year course on Youth and community leadership, after completing the course the students will have acquired skills in organising and running leisure activities for various age groups.
- – E learning is a possibility for those who can't move and for shiftworkers and others who want to work while studying. The school offers distance courses in Swedish, English, Natural Science and Mathematics, and the platform used on the net is First Class.
- –Studio Form offers one to three semesters of full-time study with the creation, design and communication in focus. Here are the tools, knowledge and experience for those who want to develop your sensory skills, work with your hands, create and solve problems using artistic materials and methods.
- – Studio Form Part Time, A wide range of 8-week part-time courses, each course is equivalent to approximately 25% of studies.
- – Web design offers training in computer-based communication and layout. You work for example with PhotoShop, Flash and Dreamweaver. You also get training in developing interactive web applications (CGI, PHP and Java)
- – Music and Sound design in co-operation with KM Studio, Karlskoga, gives you access to the latest technique and methods. You get knowledge and qualifications for professional music and media production. Practical work and projects together with theory will stimulate your own creativity.
We also run a course based on Thematic studies for retired people.