MA-thesis in Danish (DAN441L)

MA thesis in Danish.

Language Usage and Expression: Danish (DAN703F)

This course is theoretical as well as practical. Students refresh important rules in Danish language, language use and stylistics. They analyse how different types of texts have different purpose of communication. Emphasis will be on the students' writing skills in Danish language and their training in use of theoretical as well as practical aids.

Languages and Culture I (MOM301F)

This course concerns the diverse connections between culture and language, as seen from the perspective of cultural history, social sciences and linguistics. Ancient and modern world languages will be introduced and their origins, influence and effects investigated. Written and spoken language will be discussed: what sorts of things are written, why and how? Rules and alternate perspectives on the nature of langauge will be considered, raising the question of how we understand man with respect to thought and language.

Nordic Modernism and Avant-Garde - From Edith Södergran to Anarchy on the Internet (NLF108F)

The course will explore the history of modernism and of the avant-garde in the Nordic countries through key texts of Nordic modernism. Avant-garde movements such as expressionism and surrealism and their effects on Nordic literature in the years between the World wars will be studied. The course will also focus on groups of writers and other artists that operated under the banner of modernism in the Nordic countries in the post war period, ranging from the publishers of the magazines Heretica in Denmark and Birtíngur in Iceland in the post war period to diverse groups and forums of artists and writers operating today on the internet.

The course will also deal with fundamental questions such as the reaction of modernism to the "grand narratives of modernity and whether modernism itself has become such a "grand narrative" of literary history and culture.

Scandinavian Literature (NLF109F)

A Nordic literature canon will be presented and discussed form a critical perspective and the canon concept will be in focus. An important Nordic literature selection will be presented, read and studied. There will be a literature seminar in connection with this course with participation from critics and authors from the Nordic countries.

Literature Translations (DAN702F)

This course deals with literary translation between Icelandic and Danish. Students get a summary of the history of the Danish-Icelandic literary translation tradition and practice translation critic by analysing different translations from different periods. Students will face the challenges in translation as well as which strategies and methods they have to consider while finding solutions.

Individual Project (DAN805F)

Individual project.

Individual Project (DAN901F)

Individiual project.

MA-thesis in Danish (DAN441L)

MA thesis in Danish.

Danish System of Governance, History and Culture (DAN802F)

The aim of this course is to give students a good overview of the historical, political and cultural development in Danish governance through the 20. century till now – from absolutism to representative democracy. The course will among other things be devoted to the Danish welfare model and the democratic safety net in light of the state finances, geography, demography and religion, the Danish labour market, the political system, the healthcare and educational system, Denmark’s international relations and general tendencies in Danish society. Students will make presentations during the semester and the course is closed with a written home assignment.

Nordic Communication (NLF206F)

The course will focus on the language policies in the Nordic countries seen in a present and partly historic and comparative perspective and investigates how and to what extent language policies and inter Nordic communication are intertwined in the Nordic countries. We will ask questions like: What characterises language policy in the Nordic countries? How does inter Nordic communication work? Does Icelandic purism have consequences for inter Nordic communication? What is the connection between Norwegian language policy and Norwegians ability to understand other Nordic languages? Does inter Nordic communication have especially good terms in the Danish-Swedish Oresund region?

Individual Project (DAN803F)

Individual project.

Individual Project (DAN804F)

Individual project.

Languages and Culture II: The European Intellectual Tradition (MOM402M)

The European intellectual tradition is characterized by the strong links between academia and society. Many of the most important European thinkers of the 19th and 20th Centuries worked outside of the universities – and many of those who did pursue an ordinary academic career also were public commentators frequently intervening in political discussion of the day and in some cases gaining considerable influence. In this course we present a selection of European thinkers who have been important both as scholars and as public intellectuals. We read and discuss samples of their work and look at critical discussion of their ideas. We also reflect on the time and place of the "European" – to what extent their work is quinessentially Eurocentric and to what extent awareness of cultural contingency emerges.