Intensive practice in speaking, reading, and writing. Review of grammar. Introduction of modern literary texts. Discussion of culture and current events in Denmark. First in a sequence of three. Recommended: DANISH 103.

Readings in a selected area of Danish language, literature, or related fields.

Intensive practice in speaking, reading, and writing. Functional review of grammar. First in a sequence of three. Prerequisite: either FINN 103 or FINN 150.

Readings in a selected area of Finnish language, culture, or society.

Intensive practice in speaking, reading, and writing. Functional review of grammar. First in a sequence of three. Prerequisite: either LATV 103 or LATV 150.

Readings in a selected area of Lithuanian language, culture, or society.

Fundamentals of oral and written Norwegian. First in a sequence of three.

Readings in a selected area of Norwegian language, literature, or related fields.

Comprehensive overview of the field of folkloristics, focusing on verbal genres, customs, belief, and material culture. Particular attention to the issues of community, identity, and ethnicity. Offered: jointly with C LIT 230.

Introduction to the foreign relations of Scandinavia with a focus on Nordic security, international economic pressures, and global conflict resolution. Includes a survey of the national settings for international involvements and highlights the dilemmas for industrial societies exposed to the pressures of interdependence. Offered: jointly with POL S 326.

Examines selected Scandinavian literary and socio-political texts, films, and art to manifest the reality behind the myths of sexual freedom in Scandinavia.

Selected works by major Scandinavian women writers from mid-nineteenth-century bourgeois realism to the present with focus on feminist issues in literary criticism. Offered: jointly with GWSS 429.

Undergraduate research and the writing of a senior essay in Scandinavian area studies.

Independent study or research in Scandinavian area studies. May be done in a Scandinavian language or in English.

Current foreign language teaching methods and approaches. Learning and teaching strategies and techniques for the four skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening) including cultural notions. Current and future trends in pedagogy and technology. Offered: jointly with ASIAN 518/GERMAN 518/NEAR E 518/SLAV 518.

Theory and practice of communicative language teaching; current developments in foreign-language teaching; evaluation of teaching materials; includes attendance at the departmental and university-wide fall orientation; required for beginning teaching assistants of Scandinavian and the Baltic languages. May not be taken for credit if GRDSCH 615 already taken. Prerequisite: SCAND 518. Credit/no-credit only.

Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

Fundamentals of oral and written Swedish. First in a sequence of three.

Readings from works by Swedish women writers. Recommended: SWED 203.

Advanced training in graduate level proficiency in Swedish. Prerequisite: 15 credits of 300-400 level SWED courses. Offered: AWSpS.