Learning outcomes

Knowledge

The candidate

• has advanced knowledge within Viking and/or medieval studies with emphasis on one or more of the following disciplines:
  • history
  • art history
  • history of religion
  • archaeology
  • philology
  • cultural history
• has a special knowledge of theories and methods related to interdisciplinary research.
• knows the history of research and has a good grasp on the relevant source categories and reference literature related to the study of medieval communication in Scandinavia.
• has a thorough knowledge about how texts and artefacts interact as means of communication in the Scandinavian Middel Ages.
• has an analytic perception of theoretical discussions about medieval communication; in particular discussions about the concept of “text” and how this concept relates to oral and written transmission.
• knows how to apply the aquired theoretical knowledge to other academic fields where communication is the issue.

Skills

The candidate

• can analyze and deal critically with various sources of medieval communication, contextualize these sources and use them to formulate scholarly arguments about Scandinavian medieval mentality.
• has aquired a critical approach to existing theories and methods applied on medieval communication; in particular issues related to the concept of literacy, New Philology and transmission of texts.
• knows how to work independently with theoretical problems and how to apply these to theoretical and practical questions connected to texts and text transmission.
• can under supervision carry out an independent, limited, cross disciplinary research project about medieval verbal and non-verbal communication in accordance with applicable norms for research ethics.

General competence

The candidate

• can do argumentative, source-critical and problem orientated research on communication.
• is acquainted with various theoretical and methodological research approaches and knows how to apply the acquired theorethical knowledge to academic fields where communication is the issue.
• knows how knowledge is created and how to assert his/her own expertise on medieval communication.
• has aquired an extensive ability to write good scholarly prose and to structure a written academic composition in the field of humanities.
• can communicate academic issues both with other specialists and the general public.