Scandinavian Studies

Scandinavian Studies are concerned with the literatures, cultures, and the history of the Scandinavian countries. In Bonn the teaching and research focus of Scandinavian studies is on the culture and religion of the Viking era, the Scandinavian Middle Ages, the modern literary era, and the interrelationship between literature and other media. Another point of focus is teaching the languages of these countries. Bonn offers courses in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.

Scandinavian Studies takes a comparative literature perspective of the entire Scandinavian area. The goal is to understand the (socio-)cultural developments and processes in the Scandinavian countries and especially to trace the German-Scandinavian transfer of culture both historically and from a current perspective. The point here is intercultural competence, which includes not only knowledge of literary and cultural history and methodological and subject-specific competence, but also active language proficiency.

This subject must be combined with a second subject.

Possible lines of work:

Education (adult education, language courses, educational institutes, etc.), book industry (publishing/libraries/translating/editing), culture (cultural institutions, embassies, exhibitions, etc.), media (press, radio, television, online media, journalism, public relations), administration (international relations, e.g. diplomatic service, EU institutions, international organizations), teaching at a German public school, academia (research management, teaching/research at universities, research institutions, etc.)