KIERKEGAARD AND SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Literature Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the basic tenet of Kierkegaard’s philosophy Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Apply his philosophy to the reading of other writers. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Historicize existentialism. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Analyze literary works with an existential perspective. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Interpret discourses of existentialism across different medias. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Enter into dialogue with existing Kierkegaard scholarship and conduct independent research on literary existentialism. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the basic tenet of Kierkegaard’s philosophy Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Apply his philosophy to the reading of other writers. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Historicize existentialism. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Analyze literary works with an existential perspective. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Interpret discourses of existentialism across different medias. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Enter into dialogue with existing Kierkegaard scholarship and conduct independent research on literary existentialism. Audience: Graduate