Danish Language and Culture through Personal Storytelling

About this course

This course is an integrated language and culture course with a major focus on making sense of your study abroad experience in Denmark through the method of personal storytelling. Studying abroad is a unique opportunity to undergo processes of inner transformation. Co-creating a supportive learning community based on mutual trust, this course will offer space for contemplation and deep reflection as we explore your new location abroad and the stories and values that have shaped our ways of life.

We will draw upon writings by some of the finest Danish storytellers and engage in conversations with Danes during school visits, communal dinners, and city walks to gain a more nuanced understanding of the stories and values that underpin everyday life in Denmark. Emphasizing spoken, everyday Danish, reading comprehension, and simple grammar, the language learning takes a functional approach allowing you to interact in basic ways with your local surroundings while abroad.

Faculty

Ditte Marie Egebjerg-Rantzau

Faculty

Cand. mag. in Nordic Literature and French, University of Copenhagen. BA studies in French Literature, Paul Valéry University, Montpellier, France. Vice Consul at the Royal Danish Consulate of Ethiopia (2000). Educator at Novo Nordisk and Mærsk (>2006). Areas of specialization: Memory studies, postcolonial studies and civic education. With DIS since 2006.