Scandinavian Studies (Danish/Norwegian/Swedish/Finnish)
Sukurta: 04 January 2021
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Faculty Faculty of Philology |
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Scope of studies and length 240 ECTS credits, 4 years |
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Qualification awarded Bachelor in Humanities |
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Application deadline* 1 May / 1 July |
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Language English |
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Tuition fee per year EU/EFTA students can apply for a state-funded places |
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Start of studies
1 September
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City Vilnius |
The Nordic countries are undisputed world leaders when it comes to quality of life. A strong respect for people and nature, a focus on education, and values like equality, simplicity, and trust help explain why they regularly rank among the happiest places on Earth. And did you know that the Nordic countries have a shared strategy to become the best place in the world for young people like you?
The Scandinavian Studies programme gives you the opportunity to become an expert in the languages and cultures of the Nordic region. By choosing one language as your focus, you’ll also start to understand the others, opening the door to the Nordic region in all its richness –from Viking stories to contemporary cinema and comics, from grammatical gender to gender equality, and from creative school education to ecology, migration, and technology in contemporary literature.
Programme structure
| Subjects of study | Credits |
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| Semester 1 Autumn | |
| Compulsory Courses | 30.0 |
| European Classical Tradition | 5.0 |
| Experiential Project: The Nordic Welfare Model | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to the Theory of Literature | 5.0 |
| Nordic Language and Culture (Danish) I/IV p. | 5.0 |
| The Nordic Welfare Model: a Success Story | 5.0 |
| Semester 2 Spring | |
| Compulsory Courses | 15.0 |
| Myths, Men, and Monsters | 5.0 |
| Nordic Language and Culture (Danish) II/IV p. | 5.0 |
| Turning Points and Trajectories in Nordic History | 5.0 |
| Optional Courses | 15.0 |
| variant Culture, Media | 15.0 |
| An Individual and his World in Classical Culture | 5.0 |
| Ancient Philosophy | 5.0 |
| Culture and Multilingualism | 5.0 |
| Culture Processes and Media (the Middle Ages and the New Ages) | 5.0 |
| Digital Storytelling | 5.0 |
| Empowering Young Learners: Current Trends in Language Education | 5.0 |
| Endangered Languages and Cultures | 5.0 |
| Fools and Clowns in Western Culture and Literature | 5.0 |
| Gender in Culture | 5.0 |
| Intercultural Communication | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Irish Medieval Culture | 5.0 |
| Language and Culture | 5.0 |
| Language in Leadership | 5.0 |
| Media Studies: History, Theory and Aesthetics | 5.0 |
| People and Their World in the Middle Ages | 5.0 |
| Roman Culture and Art | 5.0 |
| The Social Mirror: Reflecting Culture in Idioms | 5.0 |
| 20th-Century Drama | 5.0 |
| 20th-21st Century British Drama through the ‘Prgamatic‘ Looking Glass | 5.0 |
| variant Development of Practical Skills | 15.0 |
| Creative Approaches to Foreign Language Teaching | 5.0 |
| Easy Language for Accessible Communication | 5.0 |
| Editing Skills Training | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Editing | 5.0 |
| Legal English (Discourse of Civil Law) | 5.0 |
| Public Speaking | 5.0 |
| Rhetoric | 5.0 |
| Second Language Acquisition | 5.0 |
| Standard Lithuanian: Attitudes and Usage | 5.0 |
| variant Linguistics: Advanced Courses | 15.0 |
| Baltic Languages and Cultures | 5.0 |
| Cultural Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Ethnolinguistics | 5.0 |
| Ethnolinguistics | 5.0 |
| Experimental Phonetics | 5.0 |
| Formulaicity of Contemporary Languages | 5.0 |
| Geopolitical Changes and Language | 5.0 |
| Germanic Languages (From Scandinavian to Yiddish, and Beyond) I/II p. | 5.0 |
| Historical Grammar of Romance Languages | 5.0 |
| Indo-European Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Language and Identity | 5.0 |
| Language and Nationalism | 5.0 |
| Language and Power | 5.0 |
| Language Contact and Linguistic Areas | 5.0 |
| Lexical Typology | 5.0 |
| Linguistic Text Analysis | 5.0 |
| Linguistic Variation in Indo-European Languages | 5.0 |
| Lithuanian Language from the Earliest Times to the Present | 5.0 |
| Lithuanian Sign Language and Gesture Studies | 5.0 |
| Mapping Linguistic Variation | 5.0 |
| Media Discourse | 5.0 |
| Mythological Vocabulary | 5.0 |
| Romance Onomastics | 5.0 |
| Textology | 5.0 |
| The Latin Language and Texts | 5.0 |
| variant Linguistics: Introductory Courses | 15.0 |
| Introduction of Contrastive Grammar | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Applied Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Corpus Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Corpus Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Germanic Philology | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Psycholinguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Psycholinguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Romance Philology | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Semantics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Semantics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Typology of Languages | 5.0 |
| variant Literature | 15.0 |
| Ancient Literature | 5.0 |
| British Fantasy Literature for Children and Young Adults | 5.0 |
| Children‘s Literature Classics | 5.0 |
| Classical Russian Novel | 5.0 |
| Current Aspects of Lithuanian Literature | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Feminist Critical Theory | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Shakespeare | 5.0 |
| Literary Discourse Analysis | 5.0 |
| Lithuanian Literature and History of Consciousness | 5.0 |
| Modern Literature of Eastern and Central Europe | 5.0 |
| Polish and Russian Nobel Laureates: Authors and Ideas | 5.0 |
| Reflections of Architecture in Literature | 5.0 |
| Representations of Gender in Contemporary Lithuanian Literature and Culture | 5.0 |
| Scandinavian Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature | 5.0 |
| The Bible and Literature | 5.0 |
| The Bible in Western Literature | 5.0 |
| The World of Henrik Ibsen's Dramas | 5.0 |
| Travel Writing | 5.0 |
| Western Literature (Middle Ages-Romanticism) | 5.0 |
| Western Literature: Realism vs. Modernism | 5.0 |
| Semester 3 Autumn | |
| Compulsory Courses | 15.0 |
| History of Ideas of Europe | 5.0 |
| Nordic Language and Culture (Danish) III/IV p. | 5.0 |
| Representations of the Welfare State in Nordic Literature and Film | 5.0 |
| Optional Courses | 5.0 |
| Beyond Beowulf: Wisdom Literature in Old English and Old Norse | 5.0 |
| Dystopia in Contemporary Scandinavian Literature | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Finno-Ugric Studies | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Scandinavian Cinema | 5.0 |
| Scandinavian Popular Music and Music Video | 5.0 |
| Secrets of Kalevala: Myths, Magic and Ancient Finnish Wisdom | 5.0 |
| Course unit (module) of Individual Studies | 10.0 |
| Semester 4 Spring | |
| Compulsory Courses | 15.0 |
| Analysis of Digital Texts | 5.0 |
| Linguistic Map(s) of the Nordic Countries | 5.0 |
| Nordic Language and Culture (Danish) IV/IV p. | 5.0 |
| Optional Courses | 5.0 |
| Readings of Norwegian Short Stories | 5.0 |
| Runology | 5.0 |
| Satire in Danish Cultural History | 5.0 |
| Sauna, Sibelius, and Sisu – Facts and Stereotypes About Finland | 5.0 |
| Scandinavian Identity - as Seen in Film and Literature | 5.0 |
| Scandinavian Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature | 5.0 |
| Sámi Modern History, Culture, and Identity in the Face of Green Colonialism | 5.0 |
| Course unit (module) of Individual Studies | 10.0 |
| Semester 5 Autumn | |
| Compulsory Courses | 5.0 |
| Nordic Language and Translation (Danish) I/II p. | 5.0 |
| Optional Courses | 15.0 |
| group General Optional Subjects | 5.0 |
| variant Culture, Media | 5.0 |
| Celtic Religion and Mythology | 5.0 |
| Culture and Multilingualism | 5.0 |
| Culture Processes and Media (the Middle Ages and the New Ages) | 5.0 |
| Digital Storytelling | 5.0 |
| Intercultural Communication | 5.0 |
| Language and Culture | 5.0 |
| Media Studies: History, Theory and Aesthetics | 5.0 |
| People and Their World in the Middle Ages | 5.0 |
| Roman Culture and Art | 5.0 |
| The Social Mirror: Reflecting Culture in Idioms | 5.0 |
| 20th-Century Drama | 5.0 |
| 20th-21st Century British Drama through the ‘Prgamatic‘ Looking Glass | 5.0 |
| variant Development of Practical Skills | 5.0 |
| Editing Skills Training | 5.0 |
| Empowering Young Learners: Current Trends in Language Education | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Editing | 5.0 |
| Standard Lithuanian: Attitudes and Usage | 5.0 |
| variant Linguistics: Advanced Courses | 5.0 |
| Baltic Languages and Cultures | 5.0 |
| Cultural Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Ethnolinguistics | 5.0 |
| Ethnolinguistics | 5.0 |
| Experimental Phonetics | 5.0 |
| Formulaicity of Contemporary Languages | 5.0 |
| Geopolitical Changes and Language | 5.0 |
| Historical Grammar of Romance Languages | 5.0 |
| Indo-European Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Language and Identity | 5.0 |
| Language and Nationalism | 5.0 |
| Language Contact and Linguistic Areas | 5.0 |
| Lexical Typology | 5.0 |
| Linguistic Text Analysis | 5.0 |
| Linguistic Variation in Indo-European Languages | 5.0 |
| Lithuanian Language from the Earliest Times to the Present | 5.0 |
| Lithuanian Sign Language and Gesture Studies | 5.0 |
| Mapping Linguistic Variation | 5.0 |
| Media Discourse | 5.0 |
| Mythological Vocabulary | 5.0 |
| Romance Onomastics | 5.0 |
| Textology | 5.0 |
| The Latin Language and Texts | 5.0 |
| variant Linguistics: Introductory Courses | 5.0 |
| Introduction of Contrastive Grammar | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Applied Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Corpus Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Corpus Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Germanic Philology | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Psycholinguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Psycholinguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Romance Philology | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Semantics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Semantics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Semiotics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Typology of Languages | 5.0 |
| variant Literature | 5.0 |
| Ancient Literature | 5.0 |
| British Fantasy Literature for Children and Young Adults | 5.0 |
| Classical Russian Novel | 5.0 |
| Current Aspects of Lithuanian Literature | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Feminist Critical Theory | 5.0 |
| Literary Discourse Analysis | 5.0 |
| Modern Literature of Eastern and Central Europe | 5.0 |
| Polish and Russian Nobel Laureates: Authors and Ideas | 5.0 |
| Reflections of Architecture in Literature | 5.0 |
| Representations of Gender in Contemporary Lithuanian Literature and Culture | 5.0 |
| The Bible and Literature | 5.0 |
| Travel Writing | 5.0 |
| Western Literature (Middle Ages-Romanticism) | 5.0 |
| Western Literature: Realism vs. Modernism | 5.0 |
| group Specialisation Optional Subjects | 10.0 |
| Contemporary Tendencies in Scandinavian Prose | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Finno-Ugric Studies | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Irish Medieval Culture | 5.0 |
| Language Climate in the Nordic Countries: Policy and Attitudes | 5.0 |
| Secrets of Kalevala: Myths, Magic and Ancient Finnish Wisdom | 5.0 |
| Seminar on Scandinavian Studies and Academic Writing | 5.0 |
| Course unit (module) of Individual Studies | 10.0 |
| Semester 6 Spring | |
| Compulsory Courses | 5.0 |
| Nordic Language and Translation (Danish) II/II p. | 5.0 |
| Optional Courses | 15.0 |
| group General Optional Subjects | 5.0 |
| variant Culture, Media | 5.0 |
| Celtic Religion and Mythology | 5.0 |
| Culture and Multilingualism | 5.0 |
| Culture Processes and Media (the Middle Ages and the New Ages) | 5.0 |
| Digital Storytelling | 5.0 |
| Intercultural Communication | 5.0 |
| Language and Culture | 5.0 |
| Media Studies: History, Theory and Aesthetics | 5.0 |
| People and Their World in the Middle Ages | 5.0 |
| Roman Culture and Art | 5.0 |
| The Social Mirror: Reflecting Culture in Idioms | 5.0 |
| 20th-Century Drama | 5.0 |
| 20th-21st Century British Drama through the ‘Prgamatic‘ Looking Glass | 5.0 |
| variant Development of Practical Skills | 5.0 |
| Editing Skills Training | 5.0 |
| Empowering Young Learners: Current Trends in Language Education | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Editing | 5.0 |
| Standard Lithuanian: Attitudes and Usage | 5.0 |
| variant Linguistics: Advanced Courses | 5.0 |
| Baltic Languages and Cultures | 5.0 |
| Cultural Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Ethnolinguistics | 5.0 |
| Ethnolinguistics | 5.0 |
| Experimental Phonetics | 5.0 |
| Formulaicity of Contemporary Languages | 5.0 |
| Geopolitical Changes and Language | 5.0 |
| Historical Grammar of Romance Languages | 5.0 |
| Indo-European Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Language and Identity | 5.0 |
| Language and Nationalism | 5.0 |
| Language Contact and Linguistic Areas | 5.0 |
| Lexical Typology | 5.0 |
| Linguistic Text Analysis | 5.0 |
| Linguistic Variation in Indo-European Languages | 5.0 |
| Lithuanian Language from the Earliest Times to the Present | 5.0 |
| Lithuanian Sign Language and Gesture Studies | 5.0 |
| Mapping Linguistic Variation | 5.0 |
| Media Discourse | 5.0 |
| Mythological Vocabulary | 5.0 |
| Romance Onomastics | 5.0 |
| Textology | 5.0 |
| The Latin Language and Texts | 5.0 |
| variant Linguistics: Introductory Courses | 5.0 |
| Introduction of Contrastive Grammar | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Applied Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Corpus Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Corpus Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Germanic Philology | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Psycholinguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Psycholinguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Romance Philology | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Semantics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Semantics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Semiotics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Typology of Languages | 5.0 |
| variant Literature | 5.0 |
| Ancient Literature | 5.0 |
| British Fantasy Literature for Children and Young Adults | 5.0 |
| Classical Russian Novel | 5.0 |
| Current Aspects of Lithuanian Literature | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Feminist Critical Theory | 5.0 |
| Literary Discourse Analysis | 5.0 |
| Modern Literature of Eastern and Central Europe | 5.0 |
| Polish and Russian Nobel Laureates: Authors and Ideas | 5.0 |
| Reflections of Architecture in Literature | 5.0 |
| Representations of Gender in Contemporary Lithuanian Literature and Culture | 5.0 |
| The Bible and Literature | 5.0 |
| Travel Writing | 5.0 |
| Western Literature (Middle Ages-Romanticism) | 5.0 |
| Western Literature: Realism vs. Modernism | 5.0 |
| group Specialisation Optional Subjects | 10.0 |
| Contemporary Swedish Drama Readings | 5.0 |
| Encoding Grammatical Meanings in Scandinavian Languages | 5.0 |
| Readings of Norwegian Short Stories | 5.0 |
| Satire in Danish Cultural History | 5.0 |
| Sauna, Sibelius, and Sisu – Facts and Stereotypes About Finland | 5.0 |
| Scandinavian Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature | 5.0 |
| Sámi Modern History, Culture, and Identity in the Face of Green Colonialism | 5.0 |
| Workshop for Translation of Scandinavian Literature | 5.0 |
| Course unit (module) of Individual Studies | 10.0 |
| Semester 7 Autumn | |
| Compulsory Courses | 5.0 |
| Research Project | 5.0 |
| Optional Courses | 5.0 |
| group General Optional Subjects | 5.0 |
| variant Culture, Media | 5.0 |
| Celtic Religion and Mythology | 5.0 |
| Culture and Multilingualism | 5.0 |
| Culture Processes and Media (the Middle Ages and the New Ages) | 5.0 |
| Digital Storytelling | 5.0 |
| Intercultural Communication | 5.0 |
| Language and Culture | 5.0 |
| Media Studies: History, Theory and Aesthetics | 5.0 |
| People and Their World in the Middle Ages | 5.0 |
| Roman Culture and Art | 5.0 |
| The Social Mirror: Reflecting Culture in Idioms | 5.0 |
| 20th-Century Drama | 5.0 |
| 20th-21st Century British Drama through the ‘Prgamatic‘ Looking Glass | 5.0 |
| variant Development of Practical Skills | 5.0 |
| Editing Skills Training | 5.0 |
| Empowering Young Learners: Current Trends in Language Education | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Editing | 5.0 |
| Standard Lithuanian: Attitudes and Usage | 5.0 |
| variant Linguistics: Advanced Courses | 5.0 |
| Baltic Languages and Cultures | 5.0 |
| Cultural Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Ethnolinguistics | 5.0 |
| Ethnolinguistics | 5.0 |
| Experimental Phonetics | 5.0 |
| Formulaicity of Contemporary Languages | 5.0 |
| Geopolitical Changes and Language | 5.0 |
| Historical Grammar of Romance Languages | 5.0 |
| Indo-European Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Language and Identity | 5.0 |
| Language and Nationalism | 5.0 |
| Language Contact and Linguistic Areas | 5.0 |
| Lexical Typology | 5.0 |
| Linguistic Text Analysis | 5.0 |
| Linguistic Variation in Indo-European Languages | 5.0 |
| Lithuanian Language from the Earliest Times to the Present | 5.0 |
| Lithuanian Sign Language and Gesture Studies | 5.0 |
| Mapping Linguistic Variation | 5.0 |
| Media Discourse | 5.0 |
| Mythological Vocabulary | 5.0 |
| Romance Onomastics | 5.0 |
| Textology | 5.0 |
| The Latin Language and Texts | 5.0 |
| variant Linguistics: Introductory Courses | 5.0 |
| Introduction of Contrastive Grammar | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Applied Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Corpus Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Corpus Linguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Germanic Philology | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Psycholinguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Psycholinguistics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Romance Philology | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Semantics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Semantics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Semiotics | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Typology of Languages | 5.0 |
| variant Literature | 5.0 |
| Ancient Literature | 5.0 |
| British Fantasy Literature for Children and Young Adults | 5.0 |
| Classical Russian Novel | 5.0 |
| Current Aspects of Lithuanian Literature | 5.0 |
| Introduction to Feminist Critical Theory | 5.0 |
| Literary Discourse Analysis | 5.0 |
| Modern Literature of Eastern and Central Europe | 5.0 |
| Polish and Russian Nobel Laureates: Authors and Ideas | 5.0 |
| Reflections of Architecture in Literature | 5.0 |
| Representations of Gender in Contemporary Lithuanian Literature and Culture | 5.0 |
| The Bible and Literature | 5.0 |
| Travel Writing | 5.0 |
| Western Literature (Middle Ages-Romanticism) | 5.0 |
| Western Literature: Realism vs. Modernism | 5.0 |
| Course unit (module) of Individual Studies | 20.0 |
| Semester 8 Spring | |
| Compulsory Courses | 30.0 |
| Bachelor Final Thesis (Study field: Philology by language) | 15.0 |
| Internship in Scandinavian Studies | 15.0 |
* Individual Studies include a list of courses students can choose from, in particular:
• 20+ languages: English, French, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Russian, Polish, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek, Modern Greek, Danish, Swedish, Islandic, Finnish, Hungarian, Slovenian, Croatian, Romanian, Turkish and Georgian;
• optional courses from the same and/or other study fields;
• General University Studies (GUS) modules covering a wide range of study fields throughout the University (for the complete list see here);
• Minor Studies in another study field.
Key Learning Outcomes
Graduates of the Scandinavian Studies study programme are able to:
- analyse the Nordic culture, literature and history, and societal contexts and challenges, as well as its linguistic and cultural manifestations;
- communicate both in writing and orally in a chosen Scandinavian language (level B2);
- identify and articulate scientific issues of a chosen field, to carry out non-complex scientific and applied research and critically evaluate the results obtained.
Programme Specific Requirements
The applicants must submit:
- Matura (school-leaving) certificate
- Certificate of English proficiency not lower than level B2 according to the CEFR
In addition, all applicants have to fulfil the general admission requirements.
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