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Harvard - Nordic Cinema

The Nordic region has made formidable contributions to world cinema, from the Swedish invasion of Hollywood in the silent film era to Denmark's Dogma 95 movement. This course instructs students in analyzing films in their Nordic cultural and historical contexts and provides an overview of this regional cinema as art and industry within European film history. Topics will include the silent Golden Age, auteurs Dreyer and Bergman, and transnational and diasporic cinema.
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Harvard - Old Norse Language, Literature, and Culture: Mythology

Builds on Scandinavian 160a, continuing the language study and cultural survey of the first term, but now considers mythological texts relating to Viking religious life, mainly selections from the prose and poetic Eddas. Special attention is paid to scholarly tools and debates concerned with the interpretation of these cultural monuments.
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Harvard - Old Norse Language, Literature, and Culture: The Viking Legacy

Introduction to the language and literary culture of medieval Scandinavia, emphasizing works treating the Viking Age and their valorization of an heroic ideal. In addition to basic language skills, students acquire familiarity with key critical tools of the field. Readings include scaldic poetry, selections from Egils saga and the Vinland sagas, and various runic monuments.
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Harvard - Special Reading Programs and Research Problems for Advanced Students

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Harvard - Special Reading Programs and Research Problems for Advanced Students

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Harvard - Supervised Reading and Research

Advanced readings in topics not covered in regular courses.
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Harvard - Supervised Reading and Research

Advanced reading in topics not covered in regular courses.
Score: 9.827211 Details | Listing | Web page

Harvard - Supervised Reading and Research

Advanced readings in topics not covered in regular courses.
Score: 9.827211 Details | Listing | Web page

Harvard - Supervised Reading and Research

Advanced reading in topics not covered in regular courses.
Score: 9.827211 Details | Listing | Web page

Harvard - The Vikings and the Nordic Heroic Tradition

Examines the heroic legacy resulting from the historical events in northern Europe A.D. 800 to A.D. 1100, concentrating on medieval Icelandic poetry and sagas. The course focuses on how these texts present their heroes as warriors, kings, poets, outlaws and adventurers, and reviews how the viking image is received and shaped in later periods. Pre-Christian mythology, the viking raids and the Norse experience in "Vinland" carefully considered.
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Harvard - Tutorial - Junior Year

Group or individual tutorial designed to supplement course work and to develop analytical techniques.
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Harvard - Tutorial - Junior Year

Group or individual tutorial designed to supplement course work and to develop analytical techniques.
Score: 9.827211 Details | Listing | Web page

Harvard - Tutorial - Senior Year

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Harvard - Tutorial - Sophomore Year

Group or individual tutorial designed to supplement course work and acquaint students with appropriate analytical methods.
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Harvard - Tutorial - Sophomore Year

Group or individual tutorial designed to supplement course work and acquaint students with appropriate analytical methods.
Score: 9.827211 Details | Listing | Web page

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