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Scandinavian Studies Courses 01 SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES AND SWEDISH 73. TOPICS IN SWEDISH LITERATURE (1 course) The course covers themes and ideas in post-World War II Sweden. The course literature includes novels, short stories, poetry; and nonfiction. Topics include anti-war literature, the working class novel, Swedish views on modern America, and Swedish crime fiction. Kerstin Ekman, P.O. Enquist, P.C. Jersild, Sara Lidman, and Sj[CAAD237]owall/ Wahl[CAAD237]o[CAAD237]o would be representative authors. Prerequisite: SW71 or consent of instructor. Spring semester, odd years. 74. VILHELM MOBERG AND HIS TIMES (1 course) Vilhelm Moberg is one of the most highly controversial writers in Swedish literature during the twentieth century. He embodied the roles of eminent novelist, popular dramatist, and outspoken social critic. This course will acquaint the student with Moberg's major contributions to Swedish literature and with the public debate in Sweden during his time. Moberg is often referred to as a working class writer. Other writers of the working class presented in the class are Jan Fridegard, Ivar Lo-Johansson, Harry Martinson, and Moa Martinson. Prerequisite: SW71 or permission of the instructor. Spring semester, even years. 91. INDEPENDENT STUDY (Course value to be determined) Students with an adequate reading knowledge of a Scandinavian language concentrate on one chosen area: language, literature, history, art, etc. Instructor's permission required. Fall and Spring semesters. SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES COURSES 01. SCANDINAVIAN LIFE AND CULTURE (1 course) How do the five Scandinavian countries differ from one another? What have they contributed to European culture? This course will answer these questions by surveying the history, literature, art, and philosophies of the Scandinavian peoples. Students will hear lectures on developments and issues in Scandinavia from the Middle Ages to the modern welfare state and will read works of fiction that reflect life and thought in Scandinavia. Sample topics might be: pagan mythology and the Vikings, the Icelandic Saga, the life of Linnaeus, Scandinavian emigration, the Scandinavian welfare state, and Scandinavian art and music. Areas C and G, Spring semester. 15. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN AND HIS WORLD (1 course) This is a survey of 19th-century Scandinavian literature, with Hans Christian Andersen as the pivotal figure. Students will read about romanticism and folk tales and then study realism and social reform writers. Andersen and his fairy tales are a transition between these two trends. The study of Andersen per se will take about 40 percent of the course. Other major authors are the dramatists Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, and the novelist Knut Hamsun. Significant women writers are included, and the role of women in Scandinavia is an important course theme. Area C, Fall semester, even years. 16. MODERN SCANDINAVIA: SOCIETY IN LITERATURE (1 course) How do the Scandinavian writers view the rapid and radical changes in their society during this century? How do they perceive their functions and roles as artists? In this course, we will explore how several Scandinavian writers confirm, deny or modify some common conceptions of modern Scandinavia: the modern Scandinavian countries as "overcentralized, overly bureaucratic, highly industrialized welfare states"; Scandinavia as classless and egalitarian societies; Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden as idyllic tranquil, non-violent nations; and the Scandinavians as a materialistic, secularized people. Among the writers included are the Nobel Prize winners Selma Lagerl[CAAD237]of, Knut Hamsun and Par Lagerkvist. Other major artists discussed are Ingmar Bergman, Vilhelm Moberg, Tarjei Vesaas and Karen Blixen. Areas C and G, Fall semester, odd years. 17. HENRIK IBSEN AND NORWEGIAN LITERATURE (1 course) Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is as dominant a cultural figure in Norway as William Shakespeare is in England. In this course, we will examine why Ibsen has been called the most Norwegian of all Norwegian writers, in spite of the fact that most of his famous plays are very international and were actually written during the twenty-five years he lived abroad. Though Ibsen will play a prominent role in the course, we will study other writers from different periods as well. We will read excerpts from St. Olaf's Saga by Snorri Sturlasson and some major works by the Nobel Prize winners Sigrid Undset and Knut Hamsun, as well as contemporary novels and short stories. Areas C and G. Spring semester, even years. 170 Digitized and Provided by the College Archives, Gustavus Adolphus College.
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