Danish is a studio where you can dive into all the exciting literature written by Danish authors. Read for example. Søren Kirkegaard, Ib Michael, Michael Strunge and Tom Kristensen and derive from them a broad understanding of their impact on Danish literature, and how they are interpreted and dealt with the development of society and often wrote critical writer, novels, texts or the like. On Dansk- study you must also learn to analyze texts in a linguistic level, and master several disciplines of literature and art theory.

If you are a bit of a bookworm and want to use your hobby into an exciting education, then look closely at Danish.

The study of Danish is both a study of the Danish language in the form of language analysis, but also of Danish literature put into the different eras and cultural periods that have dominated the history of Denmark.

You get to work with disciplines such as language analysis, text analysis, rhetoric, poetry and poetry, the prevailing "isms" in the history of Denmark, today's media, IT and their expression in the Danish language, and much more.
You get acquainted with scientific theories and methods to analyze and interpret texts and you learn to appreciate literary works in relation to their age and the context they should be read.

Danish studio also has an economic angle, where you learn to use the Danish language as means of communication in relevant contexts such as preparation of marketing material, orthography of business information to stakeholders and other relations specific activities.

Note that Danish is not a full-time training, so you have to combine it with another part-time training as a second language or a cultural, as history or philosophy.

Danish study also goes under the name Nordic languages and literature since the program also contains literature from our neighboring Nordic countries.

By studying Scandinavian languages ​​and literature you come to understand our common heritage that extends to the back to Viking bloody fighting and up to now. There are studied not only known literature of Oehlenschläger, Holberg and Johannes V. Jensen. There are studied poetry from the author school, advertising, photography, film and the new language in the chat, IT and SMS.

Focus on education is on the Danish literature, but you will also have to familiarize themselves to literary works from Norway and Sweden. There must also be studied contemporary cultural theories and modern mass media such as Internet, MTV and Dogme film. You will along the way learn to analyze, understand and communicate the Nordic languages ​​and literature in a critical way. At the same time, you will acquire a significantly knowledge on communication. What you will immerse you in the areas you have great influence on itself, it can for example. be in literature, media, language, culture, or a combination of these.

In the program, you will have to study languages. eg. you can dive into the use of chat on the Internet, or mentally ill expression. This provides a good understanding of the many ways the language used on and you learn about the grammatical structure and hears about philosophical theories about the importance of language.

The course is a great course with about 900 students. The training is divided in groups of 30-45 students and takes place as an interaction between you, your fellow students and the teacher. Hereby you are active in teaching and have responsibility for teaching. It often happens that way a student or teacher, will present a text which then discussed in class. It is therefore important to read the groups that you can rely on the study, which also serves as a forum for debate among experts.

There are often seminars and guest lecturers on Nordic language and literature. It could be the Icelandic sagas, modern realism or the Danish film. In the program there are also different associations that can put you in touch with like-minded students. Cacophony is subject lectures association regularly organizes evening lectures with scientists, writers and other cultural figures. Once a week there is further Friday. It is known as le boN. The magazine Vandfanget should not be cheated of publicity. It keeps you informed of what is happening on studiet and in the literary environment.

All in all, Nordic languages ​​and literature you a skilled communicator. You will be skilled to work with the language and communicate on and the Danish culture.

Job Opportunities

Teacher at high school or university, high school teacher, journalist on radio / TV / newspaper, creative writer on media or advertising agency, a consultant on projects involving language or literature - but ultimately it's up to you to define your dream job, since Danish study has so many facets and possibilities in themselves.

Special admission requirements

Danish A, English B, History B or History of Ideas B or Contemporary History B

Related student jobs

You can opt to take a student who Tutor, copywriter with online businesses who make websites to increase their ranking on Google, an advertising agency, or maybe just make your own little sideline where you offer proofreading and copywriting.