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Advanced Danish
Course code: SCAN4001.
Course unit value: 0.5.
The course aims to: build on and improve the students’ existing language skills taking the students up to a level of near-native proficiency in all four language skills: speaking, understanding, writing and reading; and enable the students to express themselves in a clear, concise, coherent, fluent, and linguistically and grammatically correct Danish.
A high level of student autonomy will be expected and the course will to a large extent consist of students’ own work. Weekly assignments to be completed at home will be given and the feedback to these will constitute an essential part of the work with perfecting every individual student’s language competence.
Assessment: one unseen three-hour written examination (50%); one oral examination (30%); and coursework (20%).
Tutor: Jesper Hansen.
Preparatory reading and set texts:
Texts
No textbook is required for the course; instead a variety of materials will be used.
Grammar
It is recommended that students own a copy of R Allan, P Holmes & T Lundskær-Nielsen, Danish. An Essential grammar (Routledge 2000).
Dictionaries
It is recommended that students own a Danish dictionary such as Politiken's Nudansk Ordbog. Students will occasionally need to consult H Vinterberg & C A Bodelsen, Dansk-engelsk ordbog (Gyldendal) and B Kjærulf Nielsen, Engelsk-dansk ordbog (Gyldendal), which can be found in the library.
