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NOR-2142: Modern Norwegian Crime Fiction Work Load
10 credits (ECTS) | Language of instruction
Norwegian | Examination semester
Spring
| 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. | 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.
This course requires NOR-1111, NOR-1112.
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 | Coursework requirements
En muntlig presentasjon på ca. 15 minutter.
| Exam and 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.
Performance will be assessed with the grades A-F.
| Contact person/lecturer
Associate Professor Nils Magne Knutsen
E-mail: Nils.Magne.Knutsen@hum.uit.no
Tlf. 776 44 232 |
Teaching spring 2007
Første forelesning: Tirsdag 09. januar kl 1215, rom E 0104 | | Forelesning | Felles undervisning med NOR-2342 og NOR-3142
Foreleser F.aman. Nils Magne Knutsen
| | Hjemmeeksamen | Oppgave innlevering: Onsdag 06. juni. |
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