SURVEY OF SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE: 1500-1800

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Literature Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2020 Learning Outcomes: 1. Comprehend, and employ various approaches to interpreting and creating cultural artifacts, in particular, representative Scandinavian literary texts from 1500 to 1800. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Demonstrate knowledge of major movements, trends, or events in the development of world cultures, in particular, Reformation, Renaissance, Baroque, Rationalism, Rococo, Pre-Romanticism. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Demonstrate an appreciation of the complexities of the interpretative process within historical and cultural contexts Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Apply critical approaches to the works and alternative ways of considering them Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Think critically about and appreciate the complexities of one's own culture and larger global communities Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Make use of and improve Nordic language skills. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Articulate research problems, potentials, and limits with respect to theory, knowledge, or practice within the fields of literary scholarship surrounding the Baroque and Rococo. Audience: Graduate 8. Create research and scholarship that makes a substantive contribution. Audience: Graduate 9. Be prepared for the M.A. exam in Scandinavian Literature and Culture. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Comprehend, and employ various approaches to interpreting and creating cultural artifacts, in particular, representative Scandinavian literary texts from 1500 to 1800. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Demonstrate knowledge of major movements, trends, or events in the development of world cultures, in particular, Reformation, Renaissance, Baroque, Rationalism, Rococo, Pre-Romanticism. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Demonstrate an appreciation of the complexities of the interpretative process within historical and cultural contexts Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Apply critical approaches to the works and alternative ways of considering them Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Think critically about and appreciate the complexities of one's own culture and larger global communities Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Make use of and improve Nordic language skills. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Articulate research problems, potentials, and limits with respect to theory, knowledge, or practice within the fields of literary scholarship surrounding the Baroque and Rococo. Audience: Graduate 8. Create research and scholarship that makes a substantive contribution. Audience: Graduate 9. Be prepared for the M.A. exam in Scandinavian Literature and Culture. Audience: Graduate