About this course
This course is an integrated language and culture course with a special focus on trying out new educational technologies in language learning. Serving as the ideal entry point for your studies abroad in Denmark, the course offers an introduction to the Danish language while also exploring important themes in Danish culture and society. The course will help you navigate and understand your new environment, strengthening your sense of place and sense of belonging while studying abroad.
The language part of the course will be taught with an emphasis on using and reflecting on the use of innovative educational technologies inside and outside the classroom. We will experiment with gamified language platforms, generative AI tools, VR scenarios, and more to better understand the potential and the possible blind spots of these new tools.
Syllabus
Course note
As an alternative to this specialized section of Danish Language and Culture, DIS also offers a general Danish Language & Culture Level I course. The general course provides multiple perspectives on Danish society, history, and culture. Topics range from the Viking Age to the recent New Nordic Wave, Denmark under German occupation during World War II, Greenland and Denmark’s colonial past, the modern Danish welfare state, and concepts such as hygge, happiness, equality, and trust. Read more about Danish Language & Culture Level I course here.
Faculty
Esben Lydiksen
Director of Faculty Learning LabM.A. (Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, 2006). Teacher of Danish as a second language and course material developer at Studieskolen, Copenhagen. Senior consultant in online and blended learning at University of Copenhagen. With DIS since 2016.