Norwegian Language and Culture for Foreign Language Students, level 4

Learning Outcomes

After successfully completing this course, students will have:

Knowledge

• Students should command complex sentence structures in Norwegian as well as acquiring a vocabulary that makes one understand authentic texts in Norwegian, both in general and specialized topics. In addition, students should be able to update themselves in general and specialized topics.

Skills

• Students should be able to understand and talk fluently about authentic texts concerning general and specialised topics in Norwegian.
• Students should be able to understand academic lectures given in Norwegian both about general and specialised topics, and be able to discuss these.
• Students should be able to understand academic texts written in Norwegian.
• Students should be able to express themselves both in written and oral idiomatic Norwegian with a varied language and complex structures

General competence

• After the course students should be able to communicate and update their knowledge in their field, and within general topics in both written and spoken Norwegian.

Forms of Assessment

The course concludes with an examination with an oral and a written part in Norwegian bokmål.

The oral part of the exam lasts about 20 minutes and is a conversation between examiner and the student.

The written part of the exam lasts 4 hours and includes a listening test, a reading comprehension test and writing skills.

It is given an overall grade. The written examination will count approximately 2 / 3, and the oral exam counts approximately 1 / 3 of the overall grade.

One must pass both the written and oral part of the examination in order to pass the whole exam.

Regarding the number of assessment attempts, see the regulations on admissions, programs, evaluation and degrees at the University of Bergen § 6.8