The Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington offers both an undergraduate major and a minor in Finnish, as well as opportunities for students to continue their study of Finnish language, literature, culture, and society on the graduate level while working toward the M.A. and the Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies. A broad array of courses are offered, including a four-year program in language and literature, as well as a survey of Finnish literary and cultural history and specialized courses on such topics as the Kalevala. Students majoring in Scandinavian Area Studies may select Finnish as their language of emphasis.
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- DuBois, Thomas A., and Guntis Šmidchens. “Kristin Kuutma (1959–2025).” The Journal of American Folklore 139 (January 2026), pp. 219–21.
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- Ilmari Ivaska, Elisa Reunanen, & Kirsti Siitonen. "Infinite Konstruktionen im fortgeschrittenen Finnisch als Fremdsprache" ('Infinitive constructions in advanced learner Finnish') - Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 26, (2016), 46-76.
- Ilmari Ivaska. "Longitudinal changes in academic learner Finnish: A key structure analysis" - International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 1(2), (2015), 210-41.
- Ilmari Ivaska. Edistyneen oppijansuomen konstruktiopiirteitä korpusvetoisesti: avainrakenneanalyysi. ('Corpus-Driven Approach towards Constructional Features of Advanced Learner Finnish: Key Structure Analysis'). Annales Universitatis Turkuensis C-409. Doctoral Dissertation: University of Turku (2015).
- Ilmari Ivaska. "Tracing crosslinguistic influences in structural sequences: What does key structure analysis have to offer?" - BeLLS - Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies 6, (2015), 23-44.
- Ilmari Ivaska. "The Corpus of Advanced Learner Finnish (LAS2): Database and toolkit to study academic learner Finnish." - Apples - Journal of Applied Language Studies 8(3), (2014), 21-38.
- Maarit Mutta, Pekka Lintunen, Ilmari Ivaska, Pauliina Peltonen (eds). AFinLA-e - Soveltavan kielitieteen tutkimuksia 7. Jyväskylä: AFinLA, 2014.
- Ilmari Ivaska. "Mahdollisuuden ilmaiseminen S1-suomea ja edistynyttä S2-suomea erottavana piirteenä." ('Expressions of possibility as a distinctive feature between L1 Finnish and advanced L2 Finnish'). - Lähivertailuja. Lähivõrdlusi 24 (2014), 47-80.