Studietorget - FS-import-v05

Work Load 10 credits (ECTS)
Objectives The aim of the course is to strengthen the students'' abilities in independent and critical evaluation of literary texts, and to increase their insight into the position of trivial literature in modern Norwegian cultural industry. The course does not qualify students for teaching in Norwegian schools.
Contents A selection of crime novels will be discussed and analysed with a special emphasis on the strategies the authors use for creating suspense, and also with a special emphasis on the social criticism and the problems of gender that are so apparent in modern Norwegian crime fiction. The course will also seek to make clear the clishès and stereotypes that characterise this genre when it comes to descriptions of people and environments, and plots. The student should have completed examinations in literature at 1000 level or equivalent; NOR-1111, NOR-1112 are recommended. In addition, knowledge of Norwegian equivalent to NOR-0100 Norwegian for foreign speaking students is required; this is a one-semester course based on previous knowledge equivalent to a passed Norwegian level III course/ the Bergen test. There is no requirement for knowledge of nynorsk. NOR-1110, NOR-1111, NOR-1112 is recommended. Courses in nordic at 2000 level may be combined with the courses HIF-1010 Sociolinguistic Theory, HIF-2011 Language change and HIF-2012 Multilingualism.
Form of teaching - Teaching lasts from week 3 to week 24. Periods for individual study study: Week 7, weeks 14,15,16, weeks 20, 21, 22, 23 - Teaching will be given in the form of seminars requiring active participation from the students. Toward the end of the semester teaching will be in the form of conferencing on papers. - Number of teahcing hours: 26
Compulsory teaching Muntlig presentasjon
Assessment To be allowed to sit the examination, the student must give at least one oral presentation of approximately 15 minutes. This requirement is assessed with pass/fail. Form of evaluation: a semester assignment, 10-15 pages. Students do not have to master both nynorsk and bokmål, and the practical language requirements are also lower than for students taking the ordinary Scandinavian language or literature courses. Performance will be assessed with the grades A-F.
Examination semester Autumn, Spring
Contact person/lecturer Associate Professor Nils Magne Knutsen E-mail: Nils.Magne.Knutsen@hum.uit.no Tlf. 776 44 232
Recommended previous qualifications NOR-1110 Nordic literature from Eddaic Poem until 1870, NOR-1111 Nordic Literature from 1870 until Second World War, NOR-1112 Nordic Literature from Second World War until today
Language of instruction Norwegian
Timetables http://timeplan.uit.no/emne.php?department=ALLE&module=NOR-2342-1

Teaching spring 2005 Første forelesning: Torsdag 06. januar kl 1915, rom B 1003
Forelesning	Undervisninga samkjøres med NOR-2142 og NOR-3142. Forelesere: Nils Magne Knutsen og Silje Solheim Karlsen Eksamen: Innlev. semesteroppgave mandag 02. mai Undervisning i ukene 3-6, 8-13, 17-19 og 24 Torsdag 19:15 to21:00 B 1003 SV-fak. og HUM-fak. bygget