Courses Winter '04

Here's a list of the classes I'm taking currently:

• Introduction to Reading Old Icelandic
  Systematic survey of Old Icelandic grammar, introduction to medieval Icelandic literature and culture through readings of several short prose works.
• History of the Scandinavian Languages
  Development of languages from common Scandinavian to contemporary Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Faroese, and Icelandic.
• Screening Modernity: Modernism and Mass Culture
  This course explores the relationship between cinema and modernism, with two interrelated questions in mind: what might film studies contribute to our understanding of modernism and modernity and, conversely, how might the perspective of modernist aesthetics help us elucidate and reframe the history and theory of cinema?
• Scandinavian Poetry 1800-2000
  Poetic expression within Scandinavia, including Romanticism, Symbolism/Neoromanticism, Modernism and Postmodernism.