Icelandic Language and Society
Undergraduate course
- ECTS credits
- 15
- Teaching semesters
- Spring
- Course code
- ISL104
- Number of semesters
- 1
- Teaching language
- Norwegian.
- Resources
- Schedule
Course description
Learning Outcomes
The course focuses on certain linguistic topics of modern Icelandic. The aim of the course is to give students a good knowledge of some linguistic topics of modern Icelandic. Those topics are historical development of the Icelandic language, word-formation and productivity, dialects, language policy (purism, neologism) and the relation between language and society. For further information about learning outcome, please see course description in Norwegian.
Semester of Instruction
Spring
Required Previous Knowledge
Students must have a good knowledge of the Norwegian language.
Credit Reduction due to Course Overlap
ISL101