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NOR 1001: Beginning Norwegian A 5-credit 9-month printed course	Current Term: Fall 2004
	Current Section: D02
	Section Dates: November 15, 2004--August 15, 2005
	Call Number: 16093
	Registration Status: Year-Round Registration
Course Instructor William Solheim Home: 612-729-1795, e-mail: solhe001@tc.umn.edu
Course at a Glance Five semester credits No prerequisites Fifteen written and recorded (on audiocassette) assignments No exams A-F or S/N grading
Course Materials Textbook: Manne, Gerd. Ny i Norge •Tekstbok. Oslo, Norway: Forlaget Fag og Kultur, 1990. Workbook: Manne, Gerd. Ny i Norge •Arbeidsbok. Oslo, Norway: Forlaget Fag og Kultur, 1990. A Norwegian/English Dictionary: Haugen, Einar. Norwegian English Dictionary. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986. (I recommend this dictionary, but you may use a different one if you wish.) Four audiocassettes: Ny i Norge •Kassetter. Oslo, Norway: Forlaget Fag og Kultur, 1990. Two blank audiocassettes: You will use them to make the required recordings. An audiocassette player/recorder: You'll need it to listen to the course audiocassettes and make your recordings. You may wish to use two recorders, since you must listen and record in close succession for the required recordings.
Course Outline Lesson 1: Pronunciation and Basic Expressions; Submission 1 (recorded) Lesson 2: Alphabet, Conversing, Personal Pronouns, and the S-Genitive; Submission 2 (written) Lesson 3: Time, Verbs, Cardinal Numbers, and Conjunctions; Submission 3 (written) Lesson 4: Nouns, Adverbs, and Word Order; Submission 4 (recorded and written) Lesson 5: Continuing Action, Singular Nouns, Genitive Til, and Verbs with a Preposition; Submission 5 (written) Lesson 6: Shopping, Personal Pronouns, and Modal Auxiliary Verbs; Submission 6 (written) Lesson 7: The Weather, Adjectives, and Word Order; Submission 7 (recorded and written) Lesson 8: Shopping for Clothes, Plural Nouns, and More Adjectives; Submission 8 (written) Lesson 9: Television, Future Tense Verbs, and Possessive Pronouns; Submission 9 (written) Lesson 10: Leisure Time, Short Answers, and the Omission of Verbs of Motion; Submission 10 (recorded and written) Lesson 11: Sports, the Library, and Perfect Tense Verbs; Submission 11 (written) Lesson 12: Grocery Shopping and Past Tense Verbs; Submission 12 (written) Lesson 13: Professions, Past and Perfect Tense Verb Usage, Expressions of Time; Submission 13 (recorded and written) Lesson 14: Phoning, Verb Conjugation, and Så • Verb, Adverb, or Conjunction?; Submission 14 (written) Lesson 15: Describing Your Home, Verb Conjugation, and Prepositions; Submission 15 (recorded and written) Appendix: Glossary of Grammatical Terms
Grading Information I will weigh the various required submissions for this course as follows: Fourteen written assignments from the workbook = 45% Six audiocassette recordings = 35% Six brief essays = 20% If you register on the S/N basis, you must earn a grade of C or better to receive an S.
Course Introduction The Norwegian Language Norway has a population of over four million inhabitants. Although there are two official written forms of the Norwegian language and numerous dialects, most of these inhabitants have no difficulty understanding the everyday speech from one area of the country to the next. The Samic people, who live mostly in northern Norway, are an exception. They have their own language, which belongs to the Finno-Ugric language group. Norwegian belongs to the northern group of Germanic languages and is closely related to Danish and Swedish. The two official and parallel written forms of Norwegian are bokmål (book language) and nynorsk (New Norwegian). The historic reasons for the complex language situation in Norway are summarized concisely in the Norwegian/English dictionary I recommend for this course. Every local administrative area in Norway has the right to choose, via occasional referenda, which written form is to assume primary use in their schools. The majority (80 percent or more) have historically chosen bokmål, which is the form you will learn in this course. It is mandated that all official publications (those from government and public offices) appear in both forms of Norwegian. Course Objectives Studying a second language offers you an opportunity to learn about another culture. If you are of Norwegian descent, studying Norwegian can lead to direct contact with and an increased awareness of your roots. This course will provide you with a foundation on which you can build your knowledge of Norwegian. When you complete this course, you will be able to • read and comprehend typical dialogs in everyday situations; • orally communicate and negotiate at a basic level; • write a descriptive rudimentary essay in good Norwegian; • carry on an everyday conversation about books, sports, food, your work and background; • use the telephone; • describe your house or apartment in some detail; and • inquire about a rental property.

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