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SCANDIN R5A Reading and Composition 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
Reading and composition in connection with the representation of Scandinavia by outsiders and insiders. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing Requirement

Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Scandinavian/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required.

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SCANDIN R5B Reading and Composition 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Summer 2019 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session
Reading and composition in connection with the representation of Scandinavia by outsiders and insiders. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Previously passed an R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better.<BR/>Previously passed an articulated R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better.<BR/>Score a 4 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Literature.<BR/>Score a 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Language and Composition.<BR/>Score of 5, 6, or 7 on the International Baccalaureate Higher Level Examination in English

Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Scandinavian/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required.

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SCANDIN 24 Freshman Seminars 1 Unit [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2016, Fall 2012, Spring 2011
The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
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Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Scandinavian/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.

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SCANDIN 60 Heroic Legends of the North 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
Exploration of the heroic narratives of the Northern Middle Ages with a focus on both the hero and the heroic ethos in a period or radical cultural, social and religious change and on a particular body of literature, the Scandinavian versions of Germanic heroic narrative. Required of majors.

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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Scandinavian/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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SCANDIN 75 Literature and Culture of the Nordic World 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018 Second 6 Week Session
This course explores the most important cultural contributions of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. It touches upon the shared history and culture, and then focuses on the eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century developments in literature, theater, film, art, design, music, and contemporary political and social issues, such as the welfare state, crime fiction, and recent immigration. Readings will include fairy tales, plays, and novels, to be complemented by film and other visual materials. Taught in English with readings in English.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Scandinavian/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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SCANDIN 98 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
Group study of selected topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Freshman or sophomore standing

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Scandinavian/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.

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SCANDIN 100A Intermediate Scandinavian Languages (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish) 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
In the context of inter-Scandinavian communication, students will further develop their communicative competence, their reading and writing proficiency and cultural understanding in their own target language (Danish, Norwegian, or Swedish). Workload: three hours of work outside class per week with one hour of communicative class work assigned on bCourses. Oral and written midterm and final exam.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Danish 1B, Norwegian 1B, or Swedish 1B or consent of instructor

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Scandinavian/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Moller

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SCANDIN 100B INTERMEDIATE SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES (DANISH, NORWEGIAN, SWEDISH) 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
In the context of inter-Scandinavian communication, students will acquire the oral proficiency necessary to function in authentic situations of language use with respect to grammatical, functional, and sociolinguistic skills in their own target language (Danish, Norwegian, or Swedish). Students will read and interpret literary and nonliterary texts from a cultural cross-cultural perspective. Workload: Four hours of work outside class per week with one hour of communicative class work assigned on bCourses. Oral and written midterm, a final project, and a final oral and written exam.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Scandinavian 100A or consent of instructor

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Scandinavian/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Moller

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SCANDIN 101A Introduction to Old Norse I 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
Introduces undergraduate students to the grammar of the vernacular written language of Iceland and Norway in the Middle Ages. Linguistic mastery is emphasized. By the end of the semester students should be able to read saga style Old Norse prose texts in normalized orthography with the help of a dictionary. To this end, lectures will lay out the morphology of the Old Norse language systematically and thoroughly. In addition to the lectures, much of the in-class time will be devoted to translating and close reading of extracts of Old Norse texts.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Scandinavian/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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SCANDIN 101B Introduction to Old Norse II 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
Introduction to Old Norse literature through readings of Old Norse texts in their original language and translation. Critical essays on Old Norse literature and scholarship illuminating the historical context in which the texts were written, transmitted, and read will supplement the readings of primary texts. The class will also deepen the students’ understanding of Old Norse grammar and metrics, and introduce them to sub-fields of Old Norse studies such as paleography and runology.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Scandinavian 101A

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Scandinavian/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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SCANDIN 106 The Works of Hans Christian Andersen 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
Reading and discussion of Hans Christian Andersen's major works, including fairy tales, short stories, novels, autobiographies, and diaries. Reading and discussion in English.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Scandinavian/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Sanders

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SCANDIN C107 Plays of Ibsen 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2011
Reading and discussion of Ibsen's major plays. Readings and discussion in English.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Scandinavian/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Sandberg

Also listed as: THEATER C107

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SCANDIN C108 Strindberg 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2012, Spring 2009
Reading and discussion of Strindberg's major works; emphasis on his dramas and their significance. Readings and discussion in English.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Scandinavian/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Also listed as: THEATER C108

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SCANDIN C114 Word and Image 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2007, Spring 2004
This course is designed to sharpen our skills in understanding what happens when the world of images and words meet. Starting with the work from the Western "classical" tradition we will proceed to investigate how word/image constellations operate in a variety of media, including sculpture and poetry, painting and prose, death masks, tableaux vivants, photography, and advertising.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Scandinavian/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Sanders

Also listed as: ISF C100C

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SCANDIN 115 Studies in Drama and Film 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
Variable subject matter. Sample topics: history of Scandinavian drama and films of such directors as Ingmar Bergman and Carl Dreyer. Readings and discussion in English.
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Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of lecture and 0-3 hours of laboratory per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5-7.5 hours of lecture and 0-7.5 hours of laboratory per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Scandinavian/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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SCANDIN 116 Studies in Prose 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2014, Spring 2009
Variable subject matter; see departmental announcement for description. Sample topics: Knut Hamsun, Kierkegaard, H. C. Andersen, Isak Dinesen, and other storytellers. Readings and discussion in English.
019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
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