NFI4402 – Current Research in Medieval Studies II with focus on Literary sources
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
This course is offered irregularly and reflect current issues of scholarship. It is an objective that the course should reflect the research of the scholar(s) responsible for the course. Often the course will be administrated in relation to on-going projects at the institute. It is our intention that the research underway in these projects shall manifest itself in the teaching and that Master’s Degree students are given the opportunity to write Master’s dissertations in connection with the relevant project. The responsible teacher will formulate the subject matter and present a reading list in relation to the current topic. More detailed specification of the content is dependent upon the students’ interests within the framework of the project and upon the researchers who go into the course at any time with their research-related teaching. This specification is undertaken just before the start of the course.
- Theme autumn 2024:?Medieval Encyclopedic Learning in Norse Manuscript Culture
- Theme autumn 2023:?Come Walk with Me.?Lei?arvísir? in Tradition and Transmissio
- Theme autumn 2021:?Of Sons and Fathers. The Poems Sonatorrek and Sólarljó? in Tradition and Transmission
- Theme autumn 2015:?Encyclopedic literature and the Konungs skuggsjá
Learning outcome
The course will have different content every time it is given. Students are therefore to acquire a profound knowledge in the specic field of the culture of the Viking Period and Middle Ages that is delimited by the present content. They are to be given insight into what it means to do research in the humanities; they are to develop a capacity for analysis and independent thinking when it comes to the relationship to primary sources and secondary literature. They are to be socialized into a research community and thus provided with a foundation on which to build in their work on their own Master’s Degree dissertation.
Admission to the course
Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.
Students enrolled in other Master`s Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.
The minimum number of attendants for the course is 5.
Recommended previous knowledge
This course builds on previous knowledge equivalent to a Bachelor’s Degree in West-European Medieval Studies or another Bachelor’s Degree with a major within a discipline that covers the Viking Period or Nordic Middle Ages.
Teaching
The teaching will be in the form of seminars, lectures and/or individual tutorials totalling 20 hours. In addition students are to follow the activities taking place under the auspices of the research milieu: seminars, conferences and guest lectures in relation to the current course.
The students in this course are required to compile an individual reading list in collaboration with the teacher.
Access to teaching
A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.
Examination
Trial Lecture in the end of the semester
Language of examination
The lecture can be held in English or Scandinavian
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
More about examinations at UiO
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- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
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