News
Professor Emerita Carol Clover receives honorary doctorate.
Professor Emerita Carol J. Clover received an honorary doctorate degree in Icelandic and Cultural Studies from the University of Iceland, in a ceremony on October 2, 2015. Bravo, Carol!
Celtic Conference, of Scandinavian Interest: Post-Print Manuscript Cultures in Ireland, Scotland, and Iceland
September 10-11, 2015
Hosted by Ulster University, Derry
In the News: Jackson Crawford and Modern Icelandic
Berkeley News recently interviewed Scandinavian’s Dr Jackson Crawford about our latest language course.
Announcing the Fall 2015 Colloquia Series
The Department of Scandinavian presents its Fall 2015 series of lectures.
New Major Concentrations, New Courses!
A new Scandinavian major concentration in Old Norse Studies is available starting Fall 2015. » read more »
Icelandic 1A: Elementary Modern Icelandic
This course in conversational Modern Icelandic is being taught for the first time on the Berkeley campus in Fall 2015. » read more »
The Department of Scandinavian is on Facebook
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Congratulations, Christian!
Congratulations to graduate student Christian Gullette, who has been awarded the SASS Aurora Borealis Prize for Languages and Literatures for his presentation at the 2014 SASS conference at Yale University. » read more »
Congratulations, Ben Bigelow!
The Birgit Baldwin Fellowship, administered by the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, has been awarded to our graduate student Ben Bigelow for the academic year 2015-16. » read more »
NEW LANGUAGE COURSE NAMES
Each of the first-year language courses in the department is now listed under the name of the individual language in the Online Schedule of Classes for Fall 2015, i.e. Danish 1A, Finnish 1A, Icelandic 1A, Norwegian 1A, and Swedish 1A. The old numbering system using “Scandinavian 1-4A” has been retired.