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Scandinavian Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Programs of Study – Undergraduate Studies

Scandinavian Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Scandinavian language courses began at the Faculty in the fall of 1977 with the opening of the Scandinavian Studies Lectorate with Norwegian language classes as an elective course, to which Swedish was added as an optional elective subject in the fall of 1981. In 1979, the first master's thesis in the field of Scandinavian Studies was defended and then in 1986, the first doctoral dissertation. In the same year, the first teacher for Scandinavian Studies was appointed. The Sub-Department for Scandinavian Languages and Literatures was founded in 1988, with the first generation of students enrolling in four-year undergraduate studies in Norwegian and Swedish languages and literatures.

Bachelor studies in Scandinavian Studies cover four teaching and academic areas: 1) practical language teaching, 2) theoretical language teaching, 3) the history of Scandinavian literature, and 4) the history of Scandinavian culture, which includes the study of all three continental Scandinavian languages – Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.

In the domain of practical language teaching, students choose one of the languages at the very beginning of their studies, with teaching staff evaluating how many candidates can learn each of the three languages each year, meaning the number of places in each language group is limited. Students then develop their communicative competence in their primary Scandinavian language, optimally up to C1 level, while passive knowledge of the remaining two languages and a good knowledge of their grammatical structure is expected. The theoretical teaching of language, literature and culture encompasses all the continental Scandinavian countries and languages and is taught to all students of Scandinavian Studies, regardless of their main language.

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