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Scandinavian 1B (4 units)
Carl Olsen, carlolsen@hotmail.com
MWF 9-10
Elementary Swedish
Three hours of language instruction per week.
Students continue to develop the basic elements
of communicative competence in both spoken and
written language within a cultural context.
Workload: About three hours
of work outside of class per week and optional
individual work in the Berkeley Language Media
Center. Oral and written midterm and final exam.
Text: Vägen til Sverige
B (a text and exercise book)
Prerequisite: Scandinavian
1A or permission of instructor.
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Scandinavian 2B (4 units)
Lotta Weckstrom, lotta.weckstrom@berkeley.edu
TT 9:30-11
Elementary Finnish
A continuation of Scandinavian 2A offered
in the Fall semester. Three hours of
language instruction per week. Students continue
to develop the basic elements of communicative
competence in both the spoken and written language
within a cultural context.
Workload: About three hours
of homework and preparation outside of class
per week. Oral and written midterm. Final exam,
including a short oral presentation.
Texts:
From Start to Finnish (1999) White,
Leila
A Grammar Book in Finnish (2006) White,
Leila
Finnish-English-Finnish Dictionary
Prerequisite: Scandinavian
2A or permission of instructor.
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Scandinavian 3B (4 units)
Jeff Sundquist, jquist@berkeley.edu
MWF 9-10
Elementary Norwegian
Three hours of language instruction per week.
Students continue to develop the basic elements
of communicative competence in both spoken and
written language within a cultural context.
Workload: About three hours
of work outside of class per week and optional
individual work in the Berkeley Language Media
Center. Oral and written midterm and final exam.
Text: Ny i Norge (text
and exercise book) Notice new edition!
Prerequisite: Scandinavian
3A or permission of instructor.
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Scandinavian 4B (4 units)
Karen Møller, kmoller@berkeley.edu
TT 2-3:30
Elementary Danish
Four hours of language instruction per week.
Students will further develop the basic elements
of communicative competence in both spoken and
written language within a cultural context.
Scan 4B will be run as a Distance Learning Course
transmitted simultaneously to UCLA. UCB is the
home campus with live class instruction; the
UCLA students will participate through a live
video feed. The schedule has been adjusted in
order to dovetail with other UC quarter system
campuses, so there may be some slight adjustements
in meeting dates later in the semester. Contact
instructor for more information (kmoller@berkeley.edu).
Workload: About four hours
of work outside of class per week. This includes
individual work and assignments in the computer
lab, a midterm and a final.
Text:
Multimedie-dansk. Danish for ducklings
(text and exercises in one book)
Prerequisite: Scandinavian
4A or permission of instructor.
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Scandinavian R5A, Section
1 (4 units)
Sonia Wichmann, swichmann@berkeley.edu
TT 3:30-5
Reading
& Composition Course
"Community: Literary Reflections and Challenges"
The Nordic countries today are known as modern
welfare states with liberal social policies
(and high taxes), communities in which everyone
is taken care of. In this course, we will explore
some of the literary roots and reflections of
community in the Nordic countries - from traditional
agrarian communities to modern urban community
(or lack of it) - as well as the rebels, reformers,
and outsiders who challenge it. Readings range
from classic plays by Holberg and Ibsen, and
the first novel written in Finnish, to novels
by contemporary authors.
Students will hone their analytical and writing
skills through discussion, close reading, and
process-oriented writing activities, including
an online discussion group, peer editing, and
thorough revision of longer essays.
This course satisfies the first half
or the “A” portion of the Reading
and Composition requirement.
Texts:
Ludvig Holberg, Erasmus Montanus
Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People
Alexis Kivi, Seven Brothers
Selma Lagerlöf, Jerusalem I
Moa Martinsson, Women and Appletrees
P.C. Jersild, Children’s Island
Mikael Niemi, Popular Music from Vittula
Andrea Lunsford, The Everyday Writer
Prerequisite: Successful completion
of the UC Entry Level Writing Requirement.
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Scandinavian R5A, Section
2 (4 units)
Gantt Gurley, gantt@berkeley.edu
TT 9:30-11
Reading
& Composition Course
"Letters, Journals, and Memoirs"
In this course we will take a more alternative
look at the platform of story-telling and narrative.
Through letters, journals, and personal memoirs
we will investigate how writing about one’s
own experience and through one’s own reflection
shapes the nature of narration. In particular,
we will examine how ancient and medieval models
have tempered modern authorship, how travel
plays a role in artistic formation, and how
the novel incorporates these elements into its
own formation. Writers to be discussed include
Ovid, Goethe, Hans Christian Andersen, Knut
Hamsun, John Steinbeck, and Wilhelm and Isak
Dinesen.
The assigned works will be supplemented by
historical, biographical and theoretical readings
that will engage the students in the Scandinavian
literary landscape of Romanticism, the late
19th century, and Modernism. Through rigorous
analytical writing, classroom discussion, and
reading exercises, students will be encouraged
and challenged to improve their critical thinking
skills as well as their mastery of the English
language.
This course satisfies the first half
or the “A” portion of the Reading
and Composition requirement.
Texts: Reader
Prerequisite: Successful completion
of the UC Entry Level Writing Requirement.
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Scandinavian R5B, Section
1 (4 units)
Elizabeth Stokkebye, stokkebye@berkeley.edu
MWF 1-2
Reading
& Composition Course
"The Sound of the Silent Scream: An Exploration
of the Artist in Nordic Literature"
Starting from the world famous painting ‘The
Scream’ by Edvard Munch, this class will
board on a virtual tour within the minds of
painters, poets and writers. Often, the creators
of our texts that portray various artists are
in fact writing about themselves, and we will
explore and perhaps discover the creative forces
of an artist and his or her creation. Time and
space of our setting and characters will mainly
be in the latter part of the nineteenth century,
when naturalism, symbolism and expressionism
were the art flavors of the day. Within these
spheres images and words gravitate around passion,
madness and melancholy, as the modern world
is rising on the horizon. Looking through the
eyes of such great minds as Henrik Ibsen, August
Strindberg and Isak Dinesen, we shall perhaps
hear the sound of the silent scream. There will
be additional readings on the artist and mental
diseases as well as presentations of relevant
artwork.
This course satisfies the second half
or the “B” portion of the Reading
and Composition requirement.
Texts:
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Niels Lyhne by J.P. Jacobsen
Under Observation by Amalie Skram
Faces by Tove Ditlevsen
In Reader: texts by Henrik Ibsen, Isak Dinesen,
and Hans Christian Andersen. Artwork by Edvard
Munch and August Strindberg.
Prerequisite: Successful completion
of the "A" portion of the Reading & Composition
requirement.
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Scandinavian R5B, Section
2 (4 units)
Benjamin Mier-Cruz, bmier@berkeley.edu
MWF 10-11
Reading
& Composition Course
Topic TBA
Watch this space!
A detailed description
with texts is coming!
This course satisfies the second half or the
"B" portion of the Reading and Composition
requirement.
Texts: TBA
Prerequisite: Successful completion
of the "A" portion of the Reading & Composition
requirement.
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Scandinavian R5B, Section
3 (4 units)
Gantt Gurley, gantt@berkeley.edu
TT 3:30-5
Reading
& Composition Course
"Into Scandinavia: The Rise of the Novel"
In this course we will explore the genre of
the novel from its early eighteenth-century
formation at the hands of Goethe and Defoe and
then trace its development into the Scandinavian
countries. We will pay particular attention
to the Scandinavian reception of the novel in
Romanticism, Naturalism, and Modernism. In addition
we will call into question the actual form and
structure of the novel by reading current and
classical thinking on novel theory. Writers
to be discussed include Hans Christian Andersen,
Knut Hamsun, and August Strindberg.
The assigned works will be supplemented by
historical, biographical and theoretical readings
that will engage the students in the Scandinavian
literary landscape of Romanticism, the late
19th century, and Modernism. Through rigorous
analytical writing, classroom discussion, and
reading exercises, students will be encouraged
and challenged to improve their critical thinking
skills as well as their mastery of the English
language.
This course satisfies the second half
or the “B” portion of the Reading
and Composition requirement.
Texts: Reader
Prerequisite: Successful completion
of the "A" portion of the Reading & Composition
requirement.
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Scandinavian R5B, Section
4 (4 units)
Elizabeth Stokkebye, stokkebye@berkeley.edu
MWF 3-4
Reading
& Composition Course
"Coming of Age in an Ageless World: Looking
at Children and Youth in Nordic Literature and
Film "
“Pretty much all the honest truth telling
there is in the world is done by children,”
says Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. As an intro
to this class, this quote is to the point. How
is it that we look upon the world and all its
inhabitants in the way of the child, and then,
upon becoming an adult, it looks different?
What is it that exactly happens when we grow
up and leave our childhood and youth behind
to face the life of the adult? In this class
we will put on the glasses of the child and
adolescent to explore these very questions.
Through tales, stories and narratives on film
we will ponder what it means to be a child;
to have the mind of a child; and to leave childhood
behind. From fairytales to contemporary film
narration we will follow youthful literary characters
in their quest to show us the child’s
way. Our guides will among others be Hans Christian
Andersen, Selma Lagerlof, Peter Hoeg, Ingmar
Bergman and Isak Dinesen.
This course satisfies the second half
or the “B” portion of the Reading
and Composition requirement.
Texts:
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by
Selma Lagerlof
Borderliners by Peter Hoeg
Children’s Island by P.C. Jersild
In Reader: Texts by Isak Dinesen and Hans Christian
Andersen
Film by Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann and Bille
August
Prerequisite: Successful completion
of the "A" portion of the Reading
& Composition requirement.
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Scandinavian 100B (4 units)
Karen Møller, kmoller@berkeley.edu
W 11-12 + DIS. SEC. (SEE
BELOW)
Scandinavian Languages and Linguistics
L&S Breadth: International
Studies OR Arts & Literature
STUDENTS ENROLL IN A COMMON LECTURE
W 11-12
+ A DISCUSSION SECTION FOR THEIR TARGET
LANGUAGE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 101 = Swedish (M & F 11-12)
SECTION 102 = Norwegian (M & F 11-12)
SECTION 103 = Danish (TT 11-12)
Continuing students of Danish, Norwegian, and
Swedish enrolling in Scandinavian 100B will
meet together for one hour of lecture
per week (W 11-12) to read and interpret
literary and nonliterary texts about inter-Scandinavian
communication, linguistics, and language history.
In addition to this one-hour combined
lecture, students will meet two additional hours
per week (in language classes with
a language instructor) to continue working in
their particular target languages.
Students should enroll in the relevant
target language section as follows: Section
101 = Swedish; Section 102 = Norwegian; Section
103 = Danish.
Students will acquire the oral competence necessary
to function in authentic situations of language
use with respect to grammatical, functional,
and sociolinguistic skills in their own target
language (Danish, Norwegian, or Swedish). Students
should register in the 100B lecture in addition
to the relevant section they will attend.
Workload for the combined lecture (i.e.
1/3 of the total grade for SCAND 100B):
Two hours of work outside class per week. A
written midterm and a final project.
Workload for the supplementary section
(i.e. 2/3 of the total grade for SCAND 100B):
An average of four hours of work outside class
per week. The structure of supplemental sections
depends on the language instructor, but usually
includes weekly written assignments, oral presentations,
a written midterm, and a final exam.
Texts:
Language sections: Texts TBA
Lecture/Culture section: Reader
Prerequisite: Scandinavian
100A or permission of instructor.
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Scandinavian 102B (4 units)
Lotta Weckstrom, lotta.weckstrom@berkeley.edu
TT 12:30-2
Advanced Finnish
L&S Breadth:
International Studies OR Arts & Literature
Three hours of language instruction per week.
This course will further develop the students'
oral communicative competence, their reading
and writing ability and cultural understanding.
Emphasis is on colloquial listening comprehension
and speaking skills, as well as reading in different
registers with vocabulary development.
Workload: About three hours
of work outside the class per week. Independent
work with DVDs and on websites. Midterm and
final project. This is a multiple level course;
can be repeated for credit.
Texts:
Supisuomea (2006) Silfverberg, Leena
& White, Leila
A Grammar Book in Finnish (2006) White,
Leila
Finnish-English-Finnish Dictionary
Selkouutiset (newspaper; provided by
instructor)
Prerequisites: Scandinavian
102A or consent of instructor.
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Scandinavian 106 (4 units)
Karin Sanders, ksanders@berkeley.edu
TT 3:30-5
The Works of Hans Christian Andersen
L&S Breadth:
Arts & Literature
Hans Christian Andersen's (1805-75) authorship
gives a unique perspective on psychological
and social questions pertaining to gender and
artistic identity. His writings include fairy
tales, short stories, novels, autobiographies,
and diaries. While he is known primarily as
a writer of children's fairy tales this course
will examine how Andersen's authorship as a
whole reflects the historical and cultural questions
of his time. We will investigate how he addresses
problems such as: image and word, authorship
and death, writing and sexuality, romanticism
and realism. In addition, we will focus our
attention on Andersen as a "visual"
writer. He produced a number of sketches and
papercuts, and he posed for numerous portraits
(sculpture, painting, photographs, etc.). The
course will include examinations of these visual
materials as well as examinations of film renditions
of his work (for example The Little Mermaid).
Course requirements: One midterm
paper, one final paper, one essay-style final
exam. Each will count for one third of the final
grade. Class participation is encouraged.
Tentative Texts:
Hans Christian Andersen's Complete Fairy
Tales and Stories.
All other required materials will be available
in the form of a reader.
Prerequisites: None. All reading
in English.
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Scandinavian 115 (4 units)
Linda Rugg, rugg@berkeley.edu
LEC: TT 11-12:30; SCREENING:
M 1-3:30
Studies in Drama and Film
"The Anxiety
of the Auteur: Cases of Influence and Inheritance
Among Scandinavian Directors"
This
Course is Cross-Listed with Film Studies 151,
Section 1
L&S
Breadth: Arts & Literature
A long tradition exists in Scandinavia
of the “art film,” a film self-consciously
created to reflect antecedents in literature,
with serious artistic ambition and an “author”
in the form of the director/writer. The notion
of the art film finds further grounding in the
relationship between directors – often
Scandinavian film directors have shown clearly
their debt to earlier Scandinavian directors,
thus creating a regional art film tradition
that helps to define the “Nordic”
as a cultural concept. The title of the course,
“The Anxiety of the Auteur,” draws
on Harold Bloom’s critical text, “The
Anxiety of Influence,” in which he examines
the relationship of poets to their artistic
heritage, in the form of work by earlier poets.
In our course we will look at the whole notion
of the film author (or auteur theory) and see
how it is expressed in the Scandinavian film
tradition through quotation, parody, and adaptation.
We will think about film’s relationship
to literature (as well as its departure from
literature) and the ways in which a national
or regional cinema is created.
Course readings, collected in a reader, will
include theoretical essays on cinematic authorship
and on national cinema. Film authors to be discussed
include Mauritz Stiller, Victor Sjöström,
Carl Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman, Lars von Trier,
Jørgen Leth, Roy Andersson, and Aki Kaurismäki.
Films will include Tomas Graal’s Best
Film, The Phantom Carriage, The Passion of Joan
of Arc, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries,
Songs from the Second Floor, The Five Obstructions,
and Man without a Past.
Prerequisites: None.
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Scandinavian 120 (4 units)
Linda Rugg, rugg@berkeley.edu
TT 2-3:30
The Novel in Scandinavian: "Ecology in
Scandinavia"
L&S Breadth: Arts
& Literature
The Scandinavian countries are known internationally
for their concerted efforts to preserve their
environments, which in the case of Iceland,
Norway, and Sweden, remain largely wild. Referring
to theoretical essays on deep ecology and ecocriticsm,
this course will consider how the ideas of “nature”
and “environment” are formulated
through cultural concepts and practice, in literature,
film, and other arts. How does the Scandinavian
attitude to the environment take form, and how
does it differ from that of other cultures?
Workload:
Attendance and participation 10%
Short essays/discussion questions 20%
Midterm 20%
Paper (7-10 pages) 25%
Final 25%
Texts:
Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson: Tales from
Norse Mythology, by Snorri Sturluson
The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic
of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer
selections from the works of Carl Linnaeus
selections from the tales of H.C. Andersen
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils And The
Further Adventures of Nils Holgersson by
Selma Lagerlöf
Independent People: An Epic by Halldor
Laxness
The Woman and the Ape by Peter Høeg
selected modern poetry, films, and other writings.
Prerequisites: None. Taught
in English.
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Scandinavian 165 (4 units)
Valdimar Hafstein, vth@hi.is
MWF 10-11
Scandinavian Folklore
L&S Breadth:
Social & Behavioral Sciences
OR Arts & Literature
The course offers an introduction to Scandinavian
folklore and folk life. The emphasis is on oral
narratives, supernatural beliefs, and material
culture in the 19th and early 20th centuries,
but we will also consider contemporary legends
and the folklore of Scandinavian immigrants
to America and of immigrants to Scandinavia.
Although the course has no prerequisites, and
all required readings are in English, some knowledge
of Scandinavian culture and/or folklore theory
will be helpful.
Texts:
John Lindow, Swedish Legends and Folktales
Orvar Löfgren and Jonas Frykman, The
Culture Builders: An Historical Anthropology
of Middle-Class Life
Jacqueline Simpson, Icelandic Folktales
& Legends
A course reader
Prerequisites: None.
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Scandinavian 220 (4 units)
John Lindow, lindow@berkeley.edu
M 3-6
Early Scandinavian Literature: "Eddic Mythology
Poetry"
An introduction to Eddic poetry comprising reading
and discussion of representative works dealing
with the mythology.
Texts:
Neckel, Gustav, and Hans Kuhn. Edda, Die
Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern.
I. Text, 5, umgearbeitete Auflage. Heidelberg:
Carl Winter 1983. May be accessed through the
TITUS project at Frankfurt: http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcs/germ/anord/edda/edda.htm?edda001.htm
LaFarge, Beatrice, and Tucker, John: Glossary
to the Poetic Edda: Based on Hans Kuhn's "Kurzes
Wörterbuch". Heidelberg: C. Winter
- Universitätsverlag. ISBN 3-8253-4541-6.
Prerequisite: One semester
of Old Norse-Icelandic.
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Scandinavian 240 (4 units)
Jon Helt Haarder, haarder@litcul.sdu.dk
Tu 2-5
Modern & Contemporary Scandinavian Literature:
"Biographical Performativity: The Biographical
Turn in Scandinavian Literature"
During the last two decades we have witnessed
a Biographical Turn. Across a wide
range of media and genres, authors, artists
and television producers have experimented with
new mixtures of fact and fiction in a biographical
and autobiographical context - but most of the
time outside the established biographical genres.
Some of these experiments have prompted much-publicized
scandals; others have stayed within the smaller
circles of the art-interested elite. Some seem
to move between different media and genres;
others work within well-known formats. This
graduate course explores the biographical turn
within Scandinavian literature. The focus is
on the present turn of the century, but it is
an important point that we have known biographical
experiments for much longer than that. By including
works from the early 19th century and onwards,
the course will place the biographical turn
within the literary history of modernity.
Texts: TBA
Prerequisites: Graduate standing;
consent of instructor.
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Scandinavian 300B (1 units)
Karen Møller, kmoller@berkeley.edu
F 3-6
Methods of Teaching Scandinavian Languages
The Scandinavian 300B course is the second part
of the department's pedagogical training series.
The course will offer a videotaped feedback
session and individual consultations. Besides
this aspect of 300B, meetings will be held to
discuss actual problems and issues as they arise
in the classroom throughout the semester. The
course may be repeated for credit.
Texts: Handouts provided by
the instructor
Prerequisites: Scandinavian
300A or teaching as a GSI at UC Berkeley.
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Scandinavian 301 (4 units)
Linda Rugg, rugg@berkeley.edu
Day and Time TBA
Teaching Methodology: Reading and Composition
This course is required of all Graduate Student
Instructors teaching Reading & Composition
courses in the Scandinavian Department.
Course to be repeated for credit each
semester of employment as graduate student instructor.
The purpose of this course is to introduce new
GSIs to teaching Scandinavian R5A and R5B. It
will focus on preparation of teaching materials,
including syllabi, and discussion of questions
of pedagogy (teaching literature and writing,
lecturing, leading class discussions, designing
writing assignments, grading and formulating
responses to student papers, working with students
individually and in small groups). The course
will help you prepare for a career as a college
teacher of literature and for the teaching component
of job applications. Must be taken on
a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.
Prerequisites: Employment
as graduate student instructor in the Department
of Scandinavian.
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