Course content

This course explores how literature portrays, is influenced by, participates in, illuminates, and/or is illuminated by other thematic and academic fields. Interdisciplinary perspectives might include theme-based areas such as health, sustainability, and cultural encounters, or intersect with other fields, such as history, geography, pedagogy, intellectual history, or other art forms like music, visual arts, and film. The course content—topics and theories—will vary each year, drawing from a selection of literary texts from the Nordic language area and relevant theoretical texts.

Learning outcome

Candidates will have obtained the following qualifications after successfully completing this course:

Knowledge:

• Demonstrate a strong understanding of literature’s relationship to another thematic or academic field.
• Recognize texts, perspectives, and concepts from another thematic or academic field.

Skills:

• Explain the challenges and opportunities of interdisciplinary literary work.
• Analyze literature from interdisciplinary perspectives.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures/seminars.

Obligatory assignments: Up to 3 written assignments and/or oral presentations

Approved obligatory assignments are valid for 2 semesters (the semester in which the approval is given, plus the following semester).

Obligatory assignments from a previous semester may be approved by the department.

Compulsory assignments

• Up to 3 written assignments and/or oral presentations

Recommended previous knowledge

NORD1104 and NORD1108 or equivalent.

Course materials

The reading list consist of 5-7 works with at least one theoretical work. (A theoretical work is equivalent to approx. 150 pages). A reading list will be available on the first day of class. The curriculum could center on e.g. one authorship, a literary epoch, a genre, a theme or theoretical perspective. It is expected that the students read necessary secondary literature in connection to the literary texts on the reading list.

Credit reductions