SCANDINAVIAN COURSES:SPRING 2013
Take a Scandinavian Course next semester!
Take a Scandinavian Course next semester!
SCAN 225 – Vikings & Volvos: Scandinavian Culture
Credit: 3 hours
M W F, 10:00-10:50 AM
Dr. Mark Safstrom
This course will explore the last 1,000 years of Nordic history and culture, beginning with the age of the Vikings all the way down to the present era, in which the Nordic countries have emerged as industrial nations.
This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a Literature and the Arts and Western Comparative Culture course.
SCAN 492 – New Scandinavian Cinema
Credit: 3 hours
M W, 1:00-2:50 PM
Dr. Anna Westerstahl Stenport
The course addresses major themes, movements, genres, aesthetics, and approaches to filmmaking and film production in Scandinavia since the early 1990s. Divided into sections, the course will address films and industry practices of relevance in particular to the following: Globalization, Environment and Nature (including the Arctic), Gender and Sexuality, Hollywood remakes, and director Lars von Trier. Screenings on Mondays, lecture and discussion on Wednesdays. Assigned readings, regular writing assignments, and a research project. All materials in English.
The course addresses major themes, movements, genres, aesthetics, and approaches to filmmaking and film production in Scandinavia since the early 1990s. Divided into sections, the course will address films and industry practices of relevance in particular to the following: Globalization, Environment and Nature (including the Arctic), Gender and Sexuality, Hollywood remakes, and director Lars von Trier. Screenings on Mondays, lecture and discussion on Wednesdays. Assigned readings, regular writing assignments, and a research project. All materials in English.
Same as MACS 492. Meets with EURO 490.
SCAN 496 – SPECIAL TOPICS: Children and Childhood in Scandinavia
Credit: 3 or 4 hours
T, Th, 2:00-3:20 PM
Dr. Theo Malekin
This course will explore the changing understanding of childhood and youth in Scandinavia through children’s literature and accounts of childhood in fiction, film and related media. Works analyzed range from Andersen’s fairy tales and Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking to contemporary youth fiction and cinema. This course will address what constitutes children’s literature; how childhood is construed in children’s literature as well as in adult-audience fiction and memoirs; and how representations of childhood correlate with evolving ideas about family formation, child-rearing, the welfare state, and education in twentieth- and twenty-first century society.
CWL 441/PHIL 444/SCAN 496 – SPECIAL TOPICS: Kierkegaard
Credit: 3 or 4 hours
T, Th, 3:30-4:50 PM
Dr. Mark Safstrom
This seminar-style course will feature readings from all the major works by Kierkegaard (incl. “Either/Or” and “Fear and Trembling”), as well as works by other Scandinavian authors who responded to him, such as fairy tales by H.C. Andersen, dramas by Henrik Ibsen (“Peer Gynt” and “Brand”) and August Strindberg (“To Damascus”), novels by Selma Lagerlöf (“Jerusalem”) and pioneer feminist Fredrika Bremer (“Hertha”), films by Ingmar Bergman (“Scenes from a Marriage”), and much more. This course will focus on two prominent themes in his philosophy – existentialism and pietism, as well as individuality and the discovery of self.
SCANDINAVIAN COURSE:SUMMER 2013
SAO-LAS: Stockholm Summer Arctic Program
“Environment and Society in a Changing Arctic”
Program Dates: June 10 – July 15, 2013
In this intensive six-week program, participants discover how climate change is altering one of the world’s great wildernesses, and then conduct research that will help map a sustainable future for the Arctic. UIUC students participate together with students from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Taught on location in Stockholm, Sweden and Svalbard, Norway. The program fulfills 6 hours of course credit (GLBL 499, ESE 497, SCAN 496). Enrollment is open to both science and non-science majors – applicants must be junior status or have instructor’s consent. Program Fee: TBA.
Application Deadline: February 1, 2013
Contacts: Sherry Danielson, SAO Program Coordinator, at sdaniel2@illinios.edu
Laura Hastings, Interim Director, LAS International Programs, at lhasting@illinois.
Additional information available at the Study Abroad Office website at:
https://app.studyabroad.illinois.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10859
“Environment and Society in a Changing Arctic”
Program Dates: June 10 – July 15, 2013
In this intensive six-week program, participants discover how climate change is altering one of the world’s great wildernesses, and then conduct research that will help map a sustainable future for the Arctic. UIUC students participate together with students from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Taught on location in Stockholm, Sweden and Svalbard, Norway. The program fulfills 6 hours of course credit (GLBL 499, ESE 497, SCAN 496). Enrollment is open to both science and non-science majors – applicants must be junior status or have instructor’s consent. Program Fee: TBA.
Application Deadline: February 1, 2013
Contacts: Sherry Danielson, SAO Program Coordinator, at sdaniel2@illinios.edu
Laura Hastings, Interim Director, LAS International Programs, at lhasting@illinois.
Additional information available at the Study Abroad Office website at:
https://app.studyabroad.illinois.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10859