Students who successfully complete the course may continue instruction in modern Icelandic at a higher level at the University of Iceland's Summer Course in Icelandic. Language classes include instruction in grammar, conversation, and modern Icelandic texts. Lectures on Icelandic culture and society from the Middle Ages to the present supplement language instruction. In Iceland, there will be excursions to museums and sites of historical and contemporary importance. No previous knowledge of Icelandic is required.
Instruction is in Icelandic, with English as the second language of instruction.
Students can earn 6 undergraduate semester credits or 3 graduate semester credits. Housing is in the dormitories at Minnesota and private homes in Iceland. The deadline for applications is 15 February 2001. Designed for graduate students at the dissertation stage, in 2001 the seminar will examine the dynamic interchange between traditional and revisionist approaches to medieval literary studies. The seminar aims to provide a forum for advanced graduate students to examine historical understandings of humanistic learning and contemporary challenges to those understandings and to locate their scholarly work within a rich discursive framework.