Norwegian Major

Intended Learning Outcomes

Students will demonstrate:

1. linguistic competence, including:
   1. language proficiency in listening, reading, writing and speaking at the ACTFL Intermediate-High level; and
   2. metalinguistic awareness of language as a system and of the ways in which language organizes thought processes and information and reflects culture.
2. cultural knowledge, including:
   1. ability to comprehend and analyze a wide range of texts (written, visual, oral) taking into account audience, purpose, discourse conventions, and rhetorical elements as well as cultural, historical, intellectual, geographical contexts and analytical methodologies;
   2. ability to interpret trends in contemporary Norwegian society informed by an understanding of Norwegian history; and
   3. ability to critically reflect on socio-historical and political constructions of power, privilege, and inequality and how these intersect with factors such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and ability.

Spring 2021