126-224 Intermediate Swedish B

Note

Available as 126-334 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Intermediate Swedish A (126-223).

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

This subject covers Advanced Swedish language, study of Swedish texts from 1550 to the present, and a survey of 20th-century Swedish history and society. During the course students will develop skills in the use of Swedish to communicate with increasing fluency, accuracy 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. They will also be taught to understand a basic variety of registers of Swedish within a contextual and historical setting and will have surveyed Swedish literature from 1880 to modern times with a stress on the last three decades and will have studied in depth the works of certain novelists and poets, including Strindberg. By the conclusion of the course they will aim to achieve the level of language competency required for admittance into Advanced Swedish A (126-336)

Assessment

Class papers and assignments of not more than 5000 words, and up to 4 hours of language tests.