Spring 2017

Language Courses | R&C Courses | Courses in English | Graduate Courses

LANGUAGE COURSES

ICELANDIC 1B: Beginning Modern Icelandic

MWF 11-12, 6415 Dwinelle. Instructor: TBA

Units: 4

Velkomin! Modern Icelandic is the language spoken by the 300,000+ inhabitants of Iceland, a volcanic island in the middle of the North Atlantic. Iceland was settled by Viking-era settlers from Scandinavia and their slaves, who arrived from Scandinavia and the Scandinavian colonies in Great Britain and Ireland. These Vikings colonized Iceland and Greenland and, briefly, North America. While Icelandic is a Scandinavian language, closely related to Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, the remote location of the island and the pride that Icelanders have historically taken in their language has kept the changes in the language to a minimum since the Viking Age. This means that Icelandic has a more complicated structure than other Scandinavian languages, but it also means that learning Modern Icelandic makes it easier to learn to read Old Norse, the language of the sagas, poetry, and mythology recorded during the medieval period.

Learning Outcomes:
The goal for the first year will be to comprehend spoken and written Icelandic relating to familiar, everyday topics, and to speak and write Icelandic well enough to satisfy immediate needs. In the second semester we will continue to focus on developing more advanced grammar skills, as well as readiness for basic social situations and common needs, while working on more fluent speaking and writing.

Texts:

(None as such; written materials provided by instructor)

Course Requirements
Homework/Attendance: 15%
Quizzes: 10%
Exams: 25%
Final Exam: 25%
Oral Exams: 10%
Compositions: 15%

Prerequisites: Icelandic 1A.

DANISH 1B: Beginning Danish II

TuTh 2-3:30, B33B Dwinelle. Instructor: Karen Møller

Units: 4

Students will further develop the basic elements of communicative competence in both spoken and written Danish within a cultural context.

Students an average state their workload in this class is 3-5 hours outside class. Students will be expected to participate in assigned online projects.

Textbook: Sådan 2, Pihl Helleland and Hansen, Gyldendal, ISBN 978870214460

Prerequisites: Danish 1A or an equivalent course with a passing grade, plus consent by instructor.

NORWEGIAN 1B: Beginning Norwegian II

MWF 9-10, 104 Dwinelle. Instructor: Ida Moen Johnson

Units: 4

Students will further develop the basic elements of communicative competence in both spoken and written Norwegian within a cultural context.

Students on average state their outside class workload to be 3 hours.

Textbook: Sett i gang

Prerequisites: Norwegian 1A or an equivalent course with a passing grade, plus consent by instructor.

SWEDISH 1B: Beginning Swedish II

MWF 9-10, 250 Dwinelle. Instructor: TBA

Units: 4

Students will further develop the basic elements of communicative competence in both spoken and written Swedish within a cultural context.

Students on average state their outside class workload to be 3 hours.

Textbook: Rivstart

Prerequisites: Swedish 1A or an equivalent course with a passing grade, plus consent by instructor.

SCANDINAVIAN 100B: Intermediate Scandinavian Languages (Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish)

W 11-12, 33 Dwinelle. Instructor: Karen Møller

Units: 4

L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature

Continuing students of Danish, Norwegian, and Danish 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 discussion sections with a language instructor) to be instructed in their particular target languages.

Students should enroll in the relevant target language section as follows: Section 101 = Danish; Section 102 = Norwegian; Section 103 = Swedish. Students should register in the 100B lecture in addition to the relevant section they will attend. The course is complete with the language and the lecture sections – you must enroll in both parts in order to fully enroll in the course. Should you experience a scheduling problem it is essential that you consult the language coordinator.

Students will further develop their basic communicative competence in all four foreign language skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) within a cultural context in their own target language (Danish, Norwegian, or Danish). Through the weekly lecture they will gain a deeper understanding of the other Scandinavian languages through tasks and readings. Students will NOT be asked to learn to speak the other two Scandinavian languages, but to learn about them.

Placement: Scandinavian 100B is open to students who have taken either one of the Scandinavian language sequences Danish, Norwegian or Swedish 1A-1B with a passing grade. A placement test is mandatory for other students who have had 90 hours of in-class instruction (reached the Novice High/Intermediate Low proficiency level) in any Scandinavian language and with a passing grade. The placement test must be taken prior to or within the first week of instruction. Contact the language coordinator to schedule a placement test.

Native, Near-Native, Heritage Speakers: The specific language sections are only open to learners of the specific Scandinavian language of instruction in the section. The course is not open to native, near-native, or heritage speakers of any Nordic language without prior consent from the language coordinator. The course cannot be repeated without prior consent from the language coordinator.

Workload for the combined lecture (e.g. 1/3 of the total grade for SCAND 100A):
 Two hours of work outside class a week. Weekly task based homework. A take-home written mid-term.

Workload for the discussion section (e.g. 2/3 of the total grade for SCAND 100A): An average of four hours of work outside class per week. The structure of supplemental language sections depends on the language instructor, but usually includes weekly written assignments, oral presentations, an oral and written midterm and final exam.

Section Times: Meeting times for discussion sections might on occasion be changed according to the schedules of the students enrolled, and can therefore vary from the times listed in the online Schedule of Classes. Students should attend the first day of class for more information on possible rescheduling.

STUDENTS ENROLL IN A COMMON LECTURE ON WEDNESDAYS 11-12
 + A DISCUSSION SECTION FOR THEIR TARGET LANGUAGE AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION 101 = Danish 101 (TuTh 11-12)

SECTION 102 = Norwegian (M&F 11-12)

SECTION 103 = Swedish (M&F 11-12)

Texts: 
Language sections: textbooks TBA– most often as readers

Lecture/Culture section: Reader

Prerequisite: Completion of either Danish, Norwegian or Swedish 1A-1B classes with a passing grade; consent of instructor.

SCANDINAVIAN 101B: Introduction to Old Norse II

TuTh 9:30-11, 33 Dwinelle. Instructor: Kate Heslop

Units: 4

L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature

In this, the second part of the Old Norse language course, we practice and extend the language skills learned in Old Norse 101A. Grammar topics from 101A will be repeated and deepened as needed. Students will both prepare translations out of class and work cooperatively on translating Old Norse texts during class time.

We will read a broad range of texts, intended to give a taste of the genres and styles of Old Norse prose and poetry, supplemented by secondary literature illuminating the historical context in which the primary texts were written, transmitted and read. Students will also learn how to work critically with modern editions and reference tools.

By the end of the course, students will have a solid basis for literary and philological work in the Old Norse field. They should be able to read Old Norse prose fluently and decode Old Norse poetry. They should also be capable of analyzing and situating Old Norse literary works in their literary, cultural and historical contexts.

Course Materials:
Michael Barnes, A New Introduction to Old Norse. Part I: Grammar. London: Viking Society for Northern Research, 2008. ISBN 978-0-903521-74-1.

Anthony Faulkes, A New Introduction to Old Norse. Part II: Reader. London: Viking Society for Northern Research, 2011. ISBN 978-0-903521-83-3.

Anthony Faulkes, A New Introduction to Old Norse. Part III: Glossary and Index of Names. London: Viking Society for Northern Research, 2011. ISBN 978-0-903521-70-3.

The above three items can be downloaded for free from http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/

Rory McTurk, ed. A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007. ISBN 978-1-4051-6367-5.

Geir T. Zoëga. A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic. Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004 [or any other edition]. ISBN 978-0486434315.

Calculation of final grade
Class participation: 40%
Midterm: 10%
Presentation: 10%
Final exam: 40%

The course is assessed via a midterm, presentation and final exam. To receive full marks for participation, students will need to complete quizzes, regularly submit translations prepared out of class, and participate in-class translation exercises.

FINNISH 102B: Intermediate Finnish

TuTh 11-12:30, B33B Dwinelle. Instructor: TBA

Units: 4

DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE!

THIS COURSE IS OFFERED AS A DISTANCE LEARNING CLASS FOR STUDENTS AT OTHER UC CAMPUSES. PLEASE CONTACT THE INSTRUCTOR FOR INFORMATION.

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 in will be on aural/oral language skills, strategic reading comprehension skills and essay writing. Reading in different registers with vocabulary development will be studied and discussed. The class is multi-level, and class material, homework and assessment will be adjusted according to each student’s skill level.

Workload: About three hours of work outside the class per week, including independent work with DVD’s and websites. Midterm exam and a final project. This is a multiple level course, repeatable for credit.

Texts: TBA

Texts and other study materials provided by the instructor

Prerequisites: Finnish 102A or consent of instructor.

Berkeley faculty and staff members interested in participating in the Finnish language classes must first consult the Finnish language coordinator

To enroll in a Finnish language course via UC Extension go to the UC Extension Concurrent Enrollment website

READING AND COMPOSITION COURSES

SCANDINAVIAN R5B, Section 6: Satire and the Enlightenment

TuTh 8-9:30, 250 Dwinelle. Instructor: Zachary Blinkinsop

Units: 4

All Reading & Composition courses must be taken for a letter grade in order to fulfill this requirement for the Bachelor’s Degree. This course satisfies the second half or the “B” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement.

Satire flourished during the eighteenth century when heavy-hitting writers across Europe penned droll attacks on superstition, intolerance, and vice. In this course, we will explore how the satirical mode functioned as part of the Enlightenment project. Particular emphasis will placed on the literary history of Sweden and Denmark-Norway from 1720 to 1792. Guiding questions in the course include: when is satire subversive and when does it reinforce the status quo? How do Scandinavian satires differ from their contemporaries in Great Britain, France, and colonial America/the United States? Is there a taxonomy of satire and what formal elements are ubiquitous across satirical sub-genres? We will engage with scholarship on satire and the Enlightenment and students will write a term paper that incorporates scholarship, historical material, and one or more of the course texts. All readings are in English.

Texts to Purchase:
Ludvig Holberg, Niels Klim, 978-0803273481

Voltaire, Candide, 978-0140440041

Ogborn & Buckroyd, Satire, 978-0521787918

Course Reader with readings of various authors

Prerequisite: Successful completion of the “A” portion of the Reading & Composition requirement or its equivalent. Students may not enroll in nor attend R1B/R5B courses without completing this prerequisite.

SCANDINAVIAN R5B, Section 2: The Uncanny Double

TuTh 8-9:30, 206 Dwinelle. Instructor: Rue Taylor

Units: 4

All Reading & Composition courses must be taken for a letter grade in order to fulfill this requirement for the Bachelor’s Degree. This course satisfies the second half or the “B” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement.

While the motif of the double is not exclusive to Scandinavia, its presence has been felt in Nordic Gothic literature since the early 19th century, inspired by literary translations from Britain and continental Europe. This course will trace the evolution of the Gothic and uncanny double from the late 19th century to today, looking at both time and culture as factors in its development. We will begin by getting a feel for the classic double in Western texts by way of landmark works such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The course will then move to Nordic literature and its own interpretation of the Gothic to explore the changes undergone by the double in the Scandinavian environment through works by Henrik Ibsen, Selma Lagerlöf, Karen Blixen and more. At its core, this course will explore how the motif of the double can be employed to better understand social anxieties and issues in the Nordic countries and beyond up to the modern day.

The aim of this course is to help students further their skills in reading, analysis and composition, and to feel more confident participating in existing academic debates. The semester will culminate in a research project designed for students to learn how to find, analyze and engage with secondary sources at the university level.

Texts:

Thomas Tryon, The Other (NYRB Classics, ISBN: 978-1590175835)

Course Reader

Prerequisite: Successful completion of the “A” portion of the Reading & Composition requirement or its equivalent. Students may not enroll in nor attend R1B/R5B courses without completing this prerequisite.

SCANDINAVIAN R5B, Section 3: The Machiavellian Narrative

MWF 8-9, 130 Dwinelle. Instructor: TBA

Units: 4

All Reading & Composition courses must be taken for a letter grade in order to fulfill this requirement for the Bachelor’s Degree. This course satisfies the second half or the “B” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement.

The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the forms and mechanics of academic writing. As a guiding theme, we will read, analyze, and respond to short stories and novels that toy with our desire to understand characters’ true motivations—these are known as Machiavellian narratives, named after the Italian political theorist notorious for advocating trickery, subterfuge, and fear-mongering as effective methods of rule.

The power of Machiavellian narratives will be explored through Scandinavian texts, including Victoria Benedictsson’s “From the Darkness,” St. St. Blicher’s “Tardy Awakening,” Knut Hamsun’s Hunger, Hjalmar Söderberg’s Doctor Glas, and Pär Lagerkvist’s The Dwarf. While we may not be accustomed to thinking too much about a story’s narrator as a character, Machiavellian narratives raise the question of how much we can trust a story’s narrator. How do we know what the narrator tells us is true? Does the narrator have an interest in telling us certain things but not others about the characters in the novel? What does the narrator think of the reader listening to his or her tale? By raising these questions, students will become more adept at identifying manipulative narratorial moves, discerning and analyzing the power constellations governing fiction, and, most importantly, developing the analytical skills necessary to becoming successful academic writers.

Texts:

Hamsun, Knut. Hunger. Trans. Robert Bly. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. ISBN-13: 978-0374525286

Lagerkvist, Pär. The Dwarf. Trans. Alexandra Dick. Hill and Wang, 1958. ISBN-13: 978-0374521356

Söderberg, Hjalmar. Doctor Glas. Trans. Paul Bitten Austin. Anchor, 2002. ISBN-13: 978-0385722674

*Additional readings will be made available in a course reader or bCourses.

Prerequisites: Successful completion of the first half or “A” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement. Students may not enroll nor attend R1B/R5B courses without completing this prerequisite.

SCANDINAVIAN R5B, Section 1: Place in Scandinavian Literature

TuTh 8-9:30, 106 Dwinelle. Instructor: Jenna Coughlin

Units: R

All Reading & Composition courses must be taken for a letter grade in order to fulfill this requirement for the Bachelor’s Degree. This course satisfies the second half or the “B” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement.

Place often becomes invisible in daily life. Not until we encounter a landscape or location that is somehow exceptional—a dramatic mountaintop, a sacred temple, an overwhelming city skyline—do we bring our attention to our surroundings. Whether depicting a remote, inhospitable seascape or the streets of a recently urbanized capital city, Scandinavian authors have used place as setting, symbol, and even character across a variety of genres. In this course, we will be reading texts by several major Scandinavian authors, while paying particular attention to place—the understandings of place apparent in them, the formal techniques used to depict place, and the changes that the Scandinavian relationship to place undergoes over time. We will also read several theorists of place and discuss their applicability to the Scandinavian context.

As a course designed to fulfill the objectives of Reading and Composition R5B, the main purpose of this course is to prepare students to complete an independent research project. As such, we will begin discussions in class which students will learn to pursue more deeply on their own. Along the way, we will practice critical reading, posing research questions, gathering sources, taking useful notes, and formulating original arguments that are supported with evidence, and, ultimately, presenting these results in an organized research essay, composed in a compelling and readable style.

Texts:

Synnøve Solbakken, Bjørstjerne Bjørnsen (available through Google books)

The Lady from the Sea, Henrik Ibsen (transl. Rolf Fjelde) ISBN: 0451528034

Hunger, Knut Hamsun ISBN: 0141180641

A Summer’s Day, Jon Fosse ISBN: 1840023848

The Ice Palace, Tarjei Vesaas ISBN: 0720613299

Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen (excerpts) ISBN: 0679724753

Prerequisite: Successful completion of the “A” portion of the Reading & Composition requirement or its equivalent. Students may not enroll in nor attend R1B/R5B courses without completing this prerequisite.

SCANDINAVIAN R5B, Section 5: Traveling through Tales and Reaching Research

MWF 8-9, 183 Dwinelle. Instructor: TBA

Units: 4

All Reading & Composition courses must be taken for a letter grade in order to fulfill this requirement for the Bachelor’s Degree. This course satisfies the second half or the “B” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement.

“To travel is to live,” as Hans Christian Andersen wrote in My Life’s Adventures. In an age before airplanes and internet reviews, authors of travelogues acted as the gatekeepers for knowledge of different countries. They would find new markets for their publications, describe unfamiliar cultures, and generally shape public opinions in their home countries. Scandinavian authors are no exception to this, as they sought to define Denmark, Norway, and Sweden with and against each other.

Our reading list follows several influential Scandinavian authors whose works have earned them a place in national, regional, and international literary cannons. These writings demonstrably engage with the linguistic, gender, race, and genre politics of their time: Karen Blixen writes in her non-native English with a masculine pen name, H C Andersen blurs realistic travelogue and fantastic fairy tale, and Selma Lagerlöf embraces the fantastic in her state-sponsored geography textbook. With Edward Said as our guiding theorist, we can begin to examine Orientalism as it manifests in Scandinavian literature, as well as Nordic Exoticism.

In this course, we will distinguish primary sources from secondary, scholarly from popular, and define relevant research. With the critical writing background from R5A or R1A (the prerequisite for this course), we can focus on making innovative arguments in two main research papers.

Required reading:

Hans Christian Andersen’s Pictures of Sweden. 978-1500363710

Jonas Lie’s Weird Tales from Northern Seas, translated by Robert Nisbet Bain. 1475179073

Selma Lagerlöf’s The Wonderful Adventures of Nils translated by Velma Swanston Howard. 9781515201021

Isak Dinesen’s (Karen Blixen’s) Out of Africa. 978-0679600213

Edward Said’s Orientalism. 978-0394740676

A Pocket Style Manual, 7th Edition by Diana Hacker & Nancy Sommers (no earlier than 5th edition, please). 978-0205309023

Other readings will be made available through bCourses, such as “Fru Fønns” by J P Jakobsen and Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities.

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT IN ENGLISH

SCANDINAVIAN 60: Heroic Legends of the North

TuTh 2-3:30, 242 Dwinelle. Instructor: Kate Heslop

Units: 4

L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature

Scandinavian 60 is a requirement for the five major concentrations in Scandinavian.

What is a hero? What use were stories about heroes to the societies that produced them? What is the relationship between heroes and gods (pagan and Christian)? Does heroic narrative preserve memories of historical events? Can monsters or women be heroes? How do heroes die, and why do their stories enjoy such a long – if not altogether blameless – afterlife?

Such questions guide our engagement in this course with the heroic narratives of the premodern North (c. 800-1300). This was a period of radical cultural, social and religious change in Scandinavia, from the pagan warrior societies of the Viking Age to the Christian, literate, centralized world of the Middle Ages. The course centers on the Poetic Edda, a unique medieval collection of mythological and heroic poetry whose roots reach into the Viking Age, and perhaps still further back. But we will also explore other manifestations of the northern fascination with heroes, covering topics such as the oral transmission of heroic narrative; heroes in visual culture (runestones, sculpture, jewellery); Latin-speaking Norse heroes in Saxo grammaticus’ Gesta danorum (History of the Danes); how the heroic ethos plays out in more realistic saga genres; and the late medieval flowering of heroic narrative in the romances. A look at the post-medieval reception of heroic legend, for example in contemporary media (e.g. the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Game of Thrones, video games) and political discourse, rounds off the course.

Texts:

The saga of Grettir the strong, trans. by Bernard Scudder (Penguin, 2005). ISBN 978-0140447736.

The Poetic Edda, trans. by Carolyne Larrington, revised edition (OUP: 2014). ISBN 978-0199675340.

The Saga of the Volsungs, trans. by Jesse Byock (Penguin: 2000). ISBN 978-0140447385.

The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok, trans. by Ben Waggoner (Troth: 2009). ISBN 978-0578021386.

Additional texts will be made available in a Course Reader.

Course aims:

  • overview of Scandinavian heroic legend and in-depth knowledge of its two key genres, eddic poetry and the saga;
  • acquaintance with the material, historical and cultural contexts of Scandinavian heroic legend, both in Viking and medieval Scandinavia and as a wider European phenomenon;
  • skills in reading and interpreting medieval texts.

Calculation of final grade
Class participation: 10%
Midterm: 10%
Term paper draft (min. 2 pages): 10%
Term paper: 40%
Final exam: 30%

Workload comprises:

brief in-class presentations of set readings; a midterm test (short answer questions plus text analysis); a term paper (5-6 pages on a set question) preceded by a 2-page graded draft; and a final exam (text analysis plus essay questions).

Prerequisites: none.  The course and readings are in English.

SCANDINAVIAN 106: The Works of Hans Christian Andersen

MWF 1-2, 219 Dwinelle. Instructor: TBA

Units: 4

In this course, we will read works by the famous Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75), focusing primarily on his exciting experiments with the genre of the literary fairytale. He is best known for fairytales such as “The Little Mermaid,” “The Ugly Duckling,” and “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Although fairytales are often seen as children’s literature, Andersen’s fairytales contain themes appropriate for adults as well. Accordingly, his fairytales can be read in multifaceted ways that help uncover key psychological, social, and sexual themes at play.

To better understand Andersen in his historical and cultural context, we will also read excerpts from some of his other works, including poems, short stories, novels, plays, travel descriptions, autobiographies, and diaries. Additionally, we will view film adaptations and look at illustrated versions of his fairytales while discussing his works in the context of both Scandinavian perceptions of childhood and the evolving market for children’s literature. Seeing Andersen from such a holistic perspective reveals the underlying tensions at work in his writing and casts him as an innovative and daring writer.

Texts:

Hans Christian Andersen’s Complete Fairy Tales and Stories. ISBN-13: 978-0385189514

All other required materials will be available in the form of a reader.

Prerequisites: None. All readings in English.

SCANDINAVIAN 160: Scandinavian Myth and Religion

MWF 3-4, 166 Barrows. Instructor: TBA

Units: 4

L&S Breadth: Philosophy & Values OR Arts & Literature

This course provides an overview and discussion of the major gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, narratives and adventures which make up the lore collectively referred to as Scandinavian, or Norse, myth. This lore is chiefly preserved in two collections traditionally called the Poetic (or Elder) Edda and the Prose (or Younger) Edda, together with some mythical sagas. The course considers not only the myths themselves, but how we know what we know about the myths of medieval Scandinavia and nearby lands, and what we can learn about the culture of pre-Christian Scandinavia from the myths their Christian descendants left us. This course will also take a summary look at what we know about cognate traditions elsewhere in Northern Europe, especially England and Germany.

Learning Outcomes
Students will finish the course with a comprehensive knowledge of pre-Christian Scandinavia’s mythology and religion, grounded in an understanding of the value of the primary sources as well as the directions of current research by scholars in the field.

Texts:

Snorri Sturluson, Edda. Trans. Anthony Faulkes (a vol. in the series Everyman Library). J.M. Dent, 1987 (or later) ISBN 978-0-460-87612-2.

The Poetic Edda. Trans. Jackson Crawford. Hackett Classics, 2015. ISBN 978-1-624-66356-7.

John Lindow, Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs. Oxford Univ. Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-19-515382-8.

Course Requirements
Quizzes: 15%
Composition: 15%
Exams: 30%
Final Exam: 35%

Prerequisites: None. Taught in English with readings in English

GRADUATE COURSES

SCANDINAVIAN 206: Studies in Philology and Linguistics: European Folklore Theory

W 3-6, 6415 Dwinelle. Instructor: John Lindow

Units: 4

This course is cross-listed with Slavic 256 and Folklore C262B/Anthropology C262B.

The European lands – especially the Nordic countries, Russia and the Balkan countries – are particularly rich in folklore materials, and scholars working on these materials have made major theoretical contributions to the general discipline of folklore. This course, intended both for students of general folklore and for students of Slavic or Scandinavian literatures, will survey these contributions both in terms of the folklore materials themselves and the theoretical advances made on the basis of these materials. Readings on theory will be in the Scandinavian languages, Russian, English and German. The folklore materials themselves are in the original languages (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, Serbian, Bosnian); English translations are available of most of these materials. Students in Scandinavian and Slavic should be reading in the original to the extent possible; students of general folklore will do readings in English (and occasionally in German).

Reading consists of selections from:

Propp, Vladimir. The Russian Folktale (tr. Sibelan Forrester)

Propp, Vladimir. Theory and History of Folklore (ed. Anatoly Liberman)

Maranda, Pierre, ed. Soviet Structural Folkloristics

Lord, Albert. The Singer of Tales

Vidan, Aida. Embroidered with Gold, Strung with Pearls, The Traditional Ballads of Bosnian Women

Aarne, Antti. Verzeichnis der Märchentypen.

Holbek, Bengt. Interpreting Fairy Tale.

Sydov, C. W. von. Selected Papers on Folklore.

Pentikainen, Juha. The Nordic Dead-Child Tradition.

Strömbäck, Dag. Leading Folklorists of the North.

Texts not available for purchase, as well as numerous others, will be made available either through library reserve or for downloading on bcourses

Prerequisites: Graduate standing; consent of instructors.

SCANDINAVIAN 220: Early Scandinavian Literature: Old Norse Mythology and Theories of Myth

F 12-3, 6415 Dwinelle. Instructor: Jonas Wellendorf

Units: 4

Theorists of myth and mythology rarely draw on Old Norse materials and scholarship on Old Norse myth is often carried out without reference to other mythologies. Nevertheless, a number of influential applications of structuralist, ritualists and ideological approaches to Norse myth can be found. In this seminar, we will study these applications and seek apply to some of the major theories of myth and mythology of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to the Old Norse mythological primary sources. The aim will be to see what kinds of answers they can give to questions of origin, subject matter and function of Norse myths.

In addition to primary sources and specialized scholarship on Old Norse myth, readings will include works by Dumézil, Dundes, Eliade, Girard, Lévi-Strauss, Lincoln, Malinowski, and others.

Texts: The Prose Edda, The mythological poems of the Poetic Edda. Both will be read in Old Norse. Secondary readings will primarily be in English.

Prerequisites: At least two semesters of Old Norse language studies (or equivalent).

SCANDINAVIAN 300B, Section 1: Teaching Practicum: Scandinavian Languages

MWF 8-9, 6410 Dwinelle. Instructor: Karen Møller

Units: 1

REQUIRED OF SCANDINAVIAN DEPARTMENT GSIs TEACHING LANGUAGE COURSES

This course is required of all Graduate Student Instructors teaching Norwegian and Swedish courses in the Scandinavian Department. Language GSIs also enroll in Scandinavian 300A, Methods of Teaching Scandinavian Languages.

Prerequisite: GSI status in the Department of Scandinavian.

SCANDINAVIAN 300B, Section 2: Teaching Practicum: Reading & Composition for Scandinavian GSIs

MWF 8-9, 6408 Dwinelle. Instructor: Jonas Wellendorf

Units: 1

REQUIRED OF SCANDINAVIAN DEPARTMENT GSIs TEACHING READING & COMPOSITION

This course is required of all Graduate Student Instructors teaching Reading & Composition courses in the Scandinavian Department. Reading and Composition GSIs also enroll in Prof. Wellendorf’s Scandinavian 301, Section 2 course for 3 units.

Prerequisite: GSI status in the Department of Scandinavian.

SCANDINAVIAN 301, Section 1: Teaching Methodology: Scandinavian Languages

TuTh 8-9:30, 6410 Dwinelle. Instructor: Karen Møller

Units: 3

REQUIRED OF SCANDINAVIAN DEPARTMENT GSIs TEACHING LANGUAGE COURSES

This course is required of all Graduate Student Instructors teaching language courses in the Scandinavian Department. Language GSIs also enroll in Karen Moller’s Scandinavian 300B, section 1, language teaching practicum, for 1 unit. Must be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.

Prerequisite: Employment as graduate student instructor in the Department of Scandinavian.

SCANDINAVIAN 301, Section 2: Teaching Methodology: Reading & Composition

TuTh 8-9:30, 6408 Dwinelle. Instructor: Jonas Wellendorf

Units: 3

REQUIRED OF SCANDINAVIAN DEPARTMENT GSIs TEACHING READING & COMPOSITION.

This course is required of all Graduate Student Instructors teaching Reading & Composition courses in the Scandinavian Department. Reading and Composition GSIs also enroll in Prof. Wellendorf’s Scandinavian 300B, Section 2 course for 1 unit.

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.

Prerequisite: Employment as graduate student instructor in the Department of Scandinavian.