Course Description

Beginning Danish, DANISH 1A

Students will develop the basic elements of communicative competence in both spoken and written language within a cultural context.

**At least 2 students must enroll via UC Online for the online section to be offered.**

PLEASE BE ADVISED OF THE COURSE DATES!!! 
Instruction Start Date: Sept 21, 2022
Instruction End Date: Dec 02, 2022
Last Day to Add: Sep. 30, 2022

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 lower division requirement for Scandinavian majors: Danish Concentration & Old Norse Concentration.

UC Davis:
General Education: AH, WC.

UC Irvine:
Unit Credit

UC Los Angeles:
Major Preparation: Scandinavian Languages and Cultures Major / Scandinavian Languages Minor; ENGLISH major/American Literature & Culture major (foreign language level 3
First Semester of foreign language instruction does not satisfy the Foreign Language requirement at UCLA.  DANISH 1A + DANISH 1B would clear the Foreign Language requirement.

UC Merced:
General Education: Satisfies GE Language Requirement

UC Riverside:
General Education: Elective units

UC San Diego:
General Education: Muir- May petition a full year of a language other than English for a GE sequence in Area III; Revelle - Foreign Language Requirement - third semester/intermediate level or fourth quarter course required for proficiency; TMC 1 course toward lower division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major; Sixth - 1 course NAHR GE; ERC Foreign Language Requirement - third semester/intermediate level or fourth quarter course required for proficiency

UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit

UC Santa Barbara:
Unit Credit

UC Santa Cruz:
Unit Credit

Course Fees

Course reader (approx. 50 USD)

More About The Course

Danish is spoken by about six million people, principally in Denmark, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and in the region of Southern Schleswig in northern Germany. This course teaches elementary Danish. Classes meet for three hours of Danish instruction per week. You will acquire basic communicative competence in all four foreign language skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) within a cultural context. The aim is to enable you to express yourself in regard to topics such as hobbies and interests, food and grocery shopping, family and friends, and everyday life. We will also explore Danish society and popular culture by watching films and reading newspapers and magazines, to further your abilities to interact with cultural competence and understanding. We will discuss how Danish language skills can be used beyond the classroom through conversations with Danish speaking visitors invited to join us in class. By the end of the first day, you will already be able to speak some Danish and realize how cool, beautiful and interesting (and yes, also challenging) the Danish language is. Vi ses snart! (See you soon).

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Course Creators

Karen Moller
Karen Møller directs the Scandinavian Languages program and mentors the Graduate Student Instructors who teach Scandinavian-language courses. She teaches all levels of Danish language classes and courses in Nordic philology, foreign-language pedagogy, Scandinavian emigration and inter-Nordic communication. Her interests are focused on foreign-language teaching and learning, especially related to Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL). Throughout her career Møller has been devoted to developing her teaching and teacher training to encompass effective new approaches promoting language learning. She has previously worked on introducing Readers Theater and implemented Watcyn-Jones’ Pair Work theory; more recently, she has adapted Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) for the foreign language classroom and explored the benefits for language teaching in a flipped classroom. She was part of a pioneering team to develop an online and synchronous Distance Learning Program, which shares language classes between all ten UC campuses, a topic on which she gives workshops and presentations. Møller has served as Academic Coordinator with the Berkeley Language Center (BLC) from 1992-1997 under Claire Kramsch as Director, and, since 1996, she has served as Faculty interviewer and Mentor for the Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholarship (under CUSH). Karen Møller directs the Scandinavian Languages program and mentors the Graduate Student Instructors who teach Scandinavian-language courses. She teaches all levels of Danish language classes and courses in Nordic philology, foreign-language pedagogy, Scandinavian emigration and inter-Nordic communication. Her interests are focused on foreign-language teaching and learning, especially ...

Karen Møller directs the Scandinavian Languages program and mentors the Graduate Student Instructors who teach Scandinavian-language courses. She teaches all levels of Danish language classes and courses in Nordic philology, foreign-language pedagogy, Scandinavian emigration and inter-Nordic communication. Her interests are focused on foreign-language teaching and learning, especially related to Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL). Throughout her career Møller has been devoted to developing her teaching and teacher training to encompass effective new approaches promoting language learning. She has previously worked on introducing Readers Theater and implemented Watcyn-Jones’ Pair Work theory; more recently, she has adapted Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) for the foreign language classroom and explored the benefits for language teaching in a flipped classroom. She was part of a pioneering team to develop an online and synchronous Distance Learning Program, which shares language classes between all ten UC campuses, a topic on which she gives workshops and presentations. Møller has served as Academic Coordinator with the Berkeley Language Center (BLC) from 1992-1997 under Claire Kramsch as Director, and, since 1996, she has served as Faculty interviewer and Mentor for the Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholarship (under CUSH).

Sofie Hansen

Sofie Malmborg Hansen is a Danish novelist with an academic background in anthropology and literature. At UC Berkeley, Sofie teaches Danish language, culture and literature.

Sofie Malmborg Hansen is a Danish novelist with an academic background in anthropology and literature. At UC Berkeley, Sofie teaches Danish language, culture and literature.
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