16.7 2nd year Associate Professor J S Martin. Intermediate Swedish Second Year A (126-223). Second semester Three lectures and a tutorial a week. At the conclusion of the subject the students will:

• have developed skills in the use of Swedish to communicate with increasing fluency, accuracy and appropriateness in activities involving the integrated use of listening, speaking, reading and writing;
• have been introduced to the society, history, culture and literature of Sweden, principally through the medium of the Swedish language;
• understand a basic variety of registers of Swedish within a contextual and historical setting;
• have surveyed Swedish literature from 1880 to modern times with a stress on the last three decades and to have studied in depth the works of certain novelists, poets and of Strindberg.
• have achieved the level of language competency required for admittance into Advanced Swedish A (126-325).

Advanced Swedish language, study of Swedish texts from 1550 to the present, and a survey of 20th-century Swedish history and society. Written work and language tests of not more than 5,000 words. See departmental Course and Subject Guide