Course Description
Intermediate Finnish, FINNISH 102A
PLEASE NOTE: Students from other UC campuses are most welcome to join when Fall quarter starts, and will be accommodated.
Students will focus on acquiring communicative competence necessary to function in authentic situations of language use in terms of grammatical, functional, and sociolinguistic skills. Students will read and interpret literary and nonliterary texts from a cultural perspective. The course uses a flexible group-work and independent project approach to advanced language study.
Key Information
Credit: 6 quarter units /
4 semester units credit
UC Berkeley, Scandinavian
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
Major Requirement: fulfills upper division requirement for Scandinavian majors: Finnish Concentration
THIS COURSE IS OFFERED AS A DISTANCE LEARNING CLASS FOR STUDENTS AT OTHER UC CAMPUSES.
PLEASE CONTACT THE INSTRUCTOR FOR INFORMATION.
UC Davis:
General Education: AH, WC.
UC Irvine:
Unit Credit
UC Los Angeles:
Major Preparation: Scandinavian Languages and Cultures Major / Scandinavian Languages Minor; COM LIT major, COM LIT minor (foreign langauge level 6); ENGLISH major/American Literature & Culture major (foreign language level 4)
Foreign Language requirement
UC Merced:
General Education: Satisfies GE Language Requirement and SSHA upper division 60 semester units requirement.
UC Riverside:
General Education: Elective units
UC San Diego:
General Education: Revelle Language Proficiency; Sixth - 1 course NAHR GE; ERC Foreign Language proficiency; TMC 1 course toward upper division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major; ERC- meets language proficiency; Seventh - 1 course towards Alternatives - Humanities; Muir- May petition a full year of a language other than English for a GE sequence in Area III
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Cruz:
Unit Credit
Course Creator
Lotta Weckstrom
Dr. Lotta Weckström started her career in developing and teaching Finnish language courses during her undergraduate years at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, where she worked as a student instructor in 1996-1998. She taught Finnish at the Turku university Language Center, language immersion summer courses, and prior to being hired at UC Berkeley in 2007, she worked as a lecturer in argumentation, rhetoric and debating at the University Collegein Utrecht, the Netherlands. As a language instructor Weckström’s interest lies in creating a student focused, cultural classroom that takes in consideration the individual students back grounds, fields of study and prior experiences learning a language.
Weckström incorporated classroom technology in her day to day teaching even before COVID-19 sent all courses online. Finnish language classes have been offered in a mode where students from all UC campuses study together via Zoom, or a classroom & Zoom combination. Weckström is an experienced and enthusiastic instructor, her background in linguistics, years of language instruction, and interest in teaching technology create a unique learning environment for students from all walks of academic life. In her language pedagogy research, Weckström explores the use of technology and media in language teaching. Her current research project is developing “best practices” guidelines for distance teaching, and trauma informed pedagogy. Weckström’s Dissertation in the field of Applied Language Studies explores representations of Finnishness in Sweden, and focuses on the experiences of young people with Finnish background in Central Sweden. She studies concept of growing up speaking a minority language, vernacular use, humor and joking in interviews, as well as the multi facetted concept of immigration, immigrants and linguistic minorities as they are expressed by the participants of her research. She has published two books on her dissertation topic, and several articles on Finns in Sweden.
Dr. Lotta Weckström started her career in developing and teaching Finnish language courses during her undergraduate years at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, where she worked as a student instructor in 1996-1998. She taught Finnish at the Turku university Language Center, language immersion summer courses, and prior to being hired at UC Berkeley in 2007, she worked as a lecturer ...
Dr. Lotta Weckström started her career in developing and teaching Finnish language courses during her undergraduate years at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, where she worked as a student instructor in 1996-1998. She taught Finnish at the Turku university Language Center, language immersion summer courses, and prior to being hired at UC Berkeley in 2007, she worked as a lecturer in argumentation, rhetoric and debating at the University Collegein Utrecht, the Netherlands. As a language instructor Weckström’s interest lies in creating a student focused, cultural classroom that takes in consideration the individual students back grounds, fields of study and prior experiences learning a language.
Weckström incorporated classroom technology in her day to day teaching even before COVID-19 sent all courses online. Finnish language classes have been offered in a mode where students from all UC campuses study together via Zoom, or a classroom & Zoom combination. Weckström is an experienced and enthusiastic instructor, her background in linguistics, years of language instruction, and interest in teaching technology create a unique learning environment for students from all walks of academic life. In her language pedagogy research, Weckström explores the use of technology and media in language teaching. Her current research project is developing “best practices” guidelines for distance teaching, and trauma informed pedagogy. Weckström’s Dissertation in the field of Applied Language Studies explores representations of Finnishness in Sweden, and focuses on the experiences of young people with Finnish background in Central Sweden. She studies concept of growing up speaking a minority language, vernacular use, humor and joking in interviews, as well as the multi facetted concept of immigration, immigrants and linguistic minorities as they are expressed by the participants of her research. She has published two books on her dissertation topic, and several articles on Finns in Sweden.
