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Finnish Studies Minor (Arts program) Faculty This program has unlimited enrolment and no specific admission requirements. All students who have completed at least 4.0 courses are Professor Emeritus eligible to enrol. B. Vahamaki, MA, Ph Lic, Ph D (4 FCEs or equivalent, including at least one at the 300+ level)

Assistant Professor Four FCEs from FIN-designated courses Pia Paivio, MA, Ph D

A nation of five million people, Finland is situated between West and FIN100H1 Elementary Finnish I [48P] East, between Sweden and Russia, sharing for thousands of years The Department reserves the right to assign students to courses religious, historical, political, social, and cultural influences and appropriate to their level of competence in Finnish.An introductory experiences with its neighbours and the different worlds they represent. language course for students with no knowledge of Finnish. The acquisition of a basic vocabulary and of an understanding of elementary Finnish, a Finno-Ugric language related to Estonian and Hungarian, is structural features through practice in comprehension, speaking, reading spoken by 94% of Finland’s population, by 300,000 in Sweden, and by and writing. large numbers in Canada, the United States, and other countries. The Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities other constitutionally recognized group, the Finland-Swedes, comprises Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) over six percent of the population. The Finns have a strong commitment to their languages and to their culture. Their national epic, the Kalevala, compiled in the 19th century from old Finnish epic narrative poems and FIN110H1 Elementary Finnish II [48P] incantations, soon became a national symbol and continues to this day to An introductory language course for students with no knowledge of inspire the growth and development of the country’s creative force. Finnish. The acquisition of a basic vocabulary and of an understanding of Today the entire world responds to Finnish achievements in music, elementary structural features through practice in comprehension, literature, the arts and architecture, and celebrates the work of such speaking, reading and writing. outstanding figures as Jean Sibelius, Aki Kaurismäki, Alvar Aalto, and Prerequisite: FIN100H1 or permission of instructor Eliel and Eero Saarinen. Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) Finnish studies at the University of Toronto are presently engaged in teaching the Finnish language - a three-year sequence - and in offering FIN200H1 Intermediate Finnish I [48P] other courses on the literature and culture of Finland. The four language skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) honed by discussion of Finnish literary texts as well as by compositions in Finnish Programs Finnish about these texts, by a series of conversation exercises, and by analysis of morphology, syntax and word formation. Translation is used to aid in language learning. Finnish Studies Major (Arts program) Prerequisite: FIN110H1 or permission of instructor Exclusion: FIN200Y1 Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities This program has unlimited enrolment and no specific admission Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) requirements. All students who have completed at least 4.0 courses are eligible to enrol. FIN210H1 Intermediate Finnish II [48P] (6 FCEs or their equivalent, with at least 2 FCEs at the 300+ level, The four language skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) honed including 0.5 FCE at the 400-level) by discussion of Finnish literary texts as well as by compositions in Finnish about these texts, by a series of conversation exercises, and by 1. FIN100H1, FIN110H1 analysis of morphology, syntax and word formation. Translation is used 2. FIN200H1, FIN210H1 to aid in language learning. 3. FIN300H1 Prerequisite: FIN200H1 or permission of instructor 4. 4 FCEs from the following: FIN230H1, FIN235H1, FIN240H1, Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities FIN250H1, FIN260H1, FIN305H11, FIN310H1, FIN320H1, FIN330H1, Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) FIN 340H1, FIN350H1, FIN360H1, FIN400H1, FIN410H1, FIN415H1, FIN420Y1, FIN430H1 5. 0.5 FCE in Breadth Requirement Category 5: The Physical and FIN220H1 Introduction to Finnish Linguistics [12L/12S] Mathematical Universes, or another half course approved by the program A survey of the linguistic structures of the Finno-Ugric languages director, to fulfill the Quantitative Reasoning competency required in the including Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian with special emphasis on program. Finnish. Focus is to gain insights into workings of non-Indo-European languages. No prior knowledge of Finno-Ugric languages or linguistics required. Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

FIN230H1 Finnish Culture 1800 to Present [12L/12P] FIN305H1 Finnish Morphology and Syntax [12L/12S] FIN230H1offers an introduction to Finnish society, history and culture Finnish Morphology and Syntax is designed present the Finnish 1800 to present. The course examines the rise of Finnish nationalism in morphological system and the principles of Finnish syntax to students the 1800s, its main manifestations, particularly the developments of its interested in general linguistics, morphology, syntax, or Finnish cultural, educational and social institutions, its economic structures, its linguistics. The Finnish case system, the verb conjugation system and demographics, as well as the nations bilingual status. phenomena such as consonant gradation, vowel harmony and clitics will Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities be explored. Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3) Prerequisite: Introduction to linguistics or FIN110H1 Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities FIN235H1 Finnish Literature 1800 to Present [12L/12P] Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2) FIN235H1 surveys the major works in Finnish literature 1800 to present by examining its role in the implementation of the agenda of Finnish FIN310H1 Finnish Folklore: The Kalevala [12L/12S] nationalism in the 19th and the 20th century. The major genres and An examination of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala: its relationship periods in Finnish literature are studied. to the tradition of folk poetry; its quality as an epic poem; the Recommended Preparation: FIN230H1 mythological, religious, and cultural dimensions of its world view; its role Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities in Finlands nation building in the 19th and 20th centuries. Readings in Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) English. (Offered at least every alternate year) Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities FIN240H1 Masterpieces of Scandinavian Literature [12L/12S] Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) Introduction to the greatest authors of Scandinavian literature and their greatest works, particularly August Strinberg, Henrik Ibsen, H.C. FIN320H1 The Finnish Canadian Immigrant Experience [12L/12S] Anderssen, Knut Hamsun, Selma Lagerlof, Pr Lagerkvist, Aleksis Kivi, Major issues and dimensions of the culture and experience of the Finnish Sigrid Undset and Halldor Laxness, etc. These are situated in their immigrants to Canada, including Finnish Canadian literature, theatre, and Scandinavian context and in world literature. (Offered every two or three press. Conceptual and ideological contributions to working class culture, years) womens lives, religious and social attitudes and values. Readings in Recommended Preparation: Some background in literature English. (Offered every three or four years) Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

FIN250H1 Finnish Cinema [12P/24S] FIN330H1 Regional Origins of Finnish Culture [12L/12S] Development of Finnish cinema from its parochial beginnings to its The course traces the construction of a unified Finnish culture over the international recognition. The great pastoral tradition; the war memories centuries from subcultures and values which ultimately have their (Laine, Kassila, Parikka); socio-political engagement of the 60s (Donner, definitions in the regional diversity of the area now called Finland. It Jarva), the paucity of the 70s (Mollberg); the universal outsider themes of focuses on the main divisions into western and eastern Finland, but also the 80s (Aki and Mika Kaurismaki). Readings and subtitles in English. explores the Swedish and the Sami (Lappish) heritage in the context of (Offered in alternate years) old cultural regions. The sources used are cultural history texts as well as Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities Finnish literature. Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) FIN260H1 Scandinavian Cinema [12P/24S] Major developments of cinema in Scandinavia in the 20th century with FIN340H1 Advanced Finnish II [12P/24S] concentration on the major film makers of Denmark, Sweden, and Advanced Finnish II provides a continuation of FIN300H1 Advanced Finland. Screening of films by directors such as Victor Sjostrom, Mauritz Finnish I. Stiller, Alf Sjoberg, Ingmar Bergman, August Bille, Carl Th. Dreyer, Prerequisite: FIN300H1 or permission of instructor Gabriel Axel, Nils Gaupe, Aki and Mika Kaurismaki. (Offered in alternate Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities years) Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) FIN350H1 The Finnish Short Story [24S] Historical, structural, and thematic study of the short fiction of Finland FIN300H1 Advanced Finnish I [12P/24S] from the Romanticism of the 19th century to contemporary post- Advanced Finnish provides a continuation of FIN210H1 Intermediate structuralism and post-modernism. Works of Runeberg, Topelius, Kivi, Finnish. Canth, Aho, Jotuni, Lehtonen, Schildt, Sillanpaa, Haanpaa, Meri, Hyry, Prerequisite: FIN210H1 or permission of instructor Salama, Mukka, Liksom, and others. Readings in English. (Offered in Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities alternate years) Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

FIN360H1 Bilingualism in Finland [12L/12S] Bilingualism in Finland as a case study in the sociology of language. A critical survey of the historical development of language politics in Finland as a bilingual society from 1800 until present. Exclusion: FIN340H1 Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

FIN400H1 Translation: Finnish-English [24S] Written translation from Finnish to English. Students will apply their textual analysis skills in translating texts drawn from diverse sources and genres, while exploring the general theory of translation. Translation exercises will serve as the basis for training in comparative Finnish- English stylistics. Prerequisite: FIN300H1 or permission of instructor Recommended Preparation: FIN305H1 Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

FIN410H1 Finnish Literature 1700-1900 (in Finnish) [24S] A chronological study of the development of Finnish literature, emphasizing outstanding writers, significant movements and trends, the emergence and transformations of the major genres and their relationship to Finnish folklore and to the national awakening. All readings in Finnish. (Offered as needed) Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Recommended Preparation: FIN300Y1 Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

FIN415H1 Finnish Literature in the 20th Century [24S] This course examines the main literary works and genres of 20th Century Finland, especially Jotuni, Sillanpaa, Haanpaa, Meri, Manner, Linna, Tuuri and a sample of contemporary writers. All readings in Finnish. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Recommended Preparation: FIN410H1 Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

FIN420Y1 Independent Study [TBA] A year-long reading and research project of significant depth in a major area in Finnish language, literature or culture approved and supervised by an instructor. Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities Breadth Requirement: None

FIN421H1 Independent Study [TBA] A semester-long reading and research project of significant depth in a major area in Finnish language, literature or culture approved and supervised by an instructor. Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities Breadth Requirement: None

FIN430Y1 Independent Study [TBA] This year-long course offers students, primarily Finnish Studies majors and minors, an opportunity to design, together with the instructor, an individualized course of study in Finnish literature or language. Registration requires the permission of the instructor and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Recommended Preparation: At least two years of university studies Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities Breadth Requirement: None