126-224/334 Intermediate Swedish B

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Objectives:

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 (126-336).

Content:

Advanced Swedish language, study of Swedish texts from 1550 to the present, and a survey of 20th-century Swedish history and society.

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See departmental Course and Subject Guide.