1. Adress- och kontaktuppgifter. 2. Land. 3. Terminernas början och slut (inkl. tentamensperioder) 2015/16

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1 Svar lämnade av :13:24 1. Adress- och kontaktuppgifter Universitetets namn: Institutionens namn: Stadens namn: Namn på rapportförfattaren: E-post till rapportförfattaren: University of California - Berkeley Department of Scandinavia Berkeley Karen Møller/Linda Rugg kmoller@berkeley.edu 2. Land Land: USA 3. Terminernas början och slut (inkl. tentamensperioder) 2015/16 August - December nuar - May (Sommer Sessions) 4. Statistik över antalet studenter och svensklärare Totalt antal studenter under läsåret 2015/2016. (Endast siffror) 24 Vilken typ av kurser i svenska/sverigestudier erbjuder din Huvudämne institution?du kan välja fler alternativ Biämne Antal lärare i svenska och Sverigestudier. (Endast siffror) Ange lärarnas namn: 3 prof. Linda Rugg lektor Karen Moller, lektor Carl Olsen 5. Svenskämnets ställning vid lärosätet Ingår svenskan i universitetets examensordning? Kommentar 6. Intresset för att läsa svenska på ditt universitet Redogör för intresset för kurser i svenska eller Sverigestudier,

2 t.ex. om svensk litteratur, kultur och svenskt samhällsliv. Upplever du att det finns ett ökat eller minskat intresse? Virket stabilt. Vi tilbød ikke andetårs-svensk i 15/16 - af forskellige administrative årsager Varför läser Nogen er interesseret i at deltage i Study Abroad programmet i Lund, nogen har studenterna svenska familie, nogen har venner, nogen er interessserede i et specifikt emne - økonomi, vad är deras indvandring, klima... Nogen (de fleste) skal bare have et emne indenfor humaniora motivation? og 1 semester m svensk opfylder det krav Om svenska inte är studenternas huvudämne, vilken är huvudinriktningen på studierna? Vilken användning har de av sina svenskstudier senare? Görs det någon uppföljning av studenterna och deras sysselsättning? computer science, microbiologi, historie, comp lit, peace and conflict studies, economy, political science... Vi ved det ikke - men nogen har fået job indenfor IT i Californien Om ja, på vilket sätt? KUN - mht til graduate students (PhD og Masters) og kun deres første stilling 7. Undervisningens uppdelning (Vi har ikke årskurser --??) Vi tilbyder svensk sprogundervisning i 4 semestre (2x45 og 2x30 timers undervisning) - totalt 150 timers undervisning, højeste niveau lower/mid Intermediate i ACTFLs scala max B1 (B2)) Undervist af TA og lektor. 8. Undervisningens innehåll Rivstart A1, A2 Rivstart B1,B2 Svensk talesprog - og maksimal generel kompetance til B1 - mod B2 niveau Vi overvejer at skifte til den digitale version af Rivstart A1, A2 til næste år 9. Lokalförhållanden Beskriv och kommentera institutionens lokalförhållanden. Vi får tildelt klasseværelser gennem rum-centralen på UC Berkeley - på lige for med alle andre klasser på universitetet. Rummene har alle A/V og projektør 10. Budget Har din institution egen budget eller möjlighet att söka medel för till exempel läromedel och gästföreläsningar (förutom stödet från Nej

3 SI)? tyvärr Arrangemang Sept 28-30, 2015: conference, "Unpacking the Nordic Model" October 21, 2015: Nefsie Ozkal Lorentzen, Manislam Film Screening and Discussion with Director Beskriv föredrag, October 22, 2015: Ulrika Knutson on Ingrid Bergman October 23, 2015: Elsebeth kulturevenemang m.m. Welander Berggren, "Swedish Art at the World Fair 1915" November 9, 2015: Goran som institutionen haft Rosenberg, A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz December 4, 2015: Farnaz under året. Arbabi and Athena Farrokhzad, "Migration, Racism, and Revolution in Contemporary Swedish Literature and Theater" 12. Kontakter och utbyte Hur mycket kontakt har institutionen med Ganska mycket kontakt svensk ambassad eller svenskt konsulat? Har institutionen något samarbete med svenska företag, organisationer eller liknande? (om ja, skriv en kommentar) The Bay Area has an active Scandinavian community, and we are involved in some of their activities. The "Silicon Vikings," a group of Scandinavians (many of whom are Swedes) working in the IT industry, have connected with our undergraduate Swedish (soon to be Scandinavian) Club, which recently became an official student organization on campus, receiving funding for events. The Swedish-American Chamber of Conference in San Francisco includes us on their mailing list and invites us to events, which we sometimes attend. It offers us the opportunity to connect our students with the business interests of the Chamber. The San Francisco Swedish Society renovated and reopened its revered Swedish-American Hall, and we attended that event and have been involved in some of the programming for that organization. SWEA's San Francisco chapter is in touch with us about their scholarship program and the local events they stage, which some of our students attend. We had two graduate students win SWEA scholarships last year. Barbro Osher's Pro Suecia Foundation supports activities in the Bay Area to which we are often invited. 13. Utbyte med universitet/högskolor i Sverige? Kryssa för de högskolor och universitet ni har samarbete med. Lunds universitet Mittuniversitetet Stockholms universitet Uppsala universitet We are developing a three-way exchange between UC Berkeley's Scandinavian Department, Stockholm University's Comparative Literature Department, and

4 Zurich's Nordic cultures program. Our Chair, Mark Sandberg, worked on this arrangement with representatives from Stockholm and Zurich, and we had our first visitor under this program from Stockholm this fall. Berkeley has a long-standing Skriv gärna en exchange program with Lund University; this exchange is not directed specifically at kommentar om vilken our program, but we do have undergraduates in our courses who either have typ av samarbete som returned from Lund or are planning to go. Linda Rugg is involved in a research sker. Är det t.ex. program out of Uppsala University on Swedish-American Borderlines, and she was in studentutbyte, Uppsala this summer to work on the organization and content of this project. The lärarutbyte eller department is currently hosting Maths Bertell, a Swedish visitor from Mittuniversitet forskningssamarbeten. on the STINT (Stiftelsen för internationalisering av högre utbilding och forskning), who is team-teaching a course with a colleague in the department. We hope to host more STINT scholars in the future. One of our graduate students, Christian Gullette, is involved in an exchange project with a colleague at Uppsala University in the Education Department. 14. Utbyte med universitet/högskolor utanför Sverige? recent scholarly contact was stabled with: Aarhus Universitet, Københavns Beskriv ert samarbete: Universitet, Syddansk Universitet, Agder Universitet, Bergen, Oslo, Tromsø, University of Iceland and teh University ofthe Faroe Islands. 15. Publikationer och forskning inom institutionen Svar: Linda Rugg's recent publications: August Strindberg, Edvard Munch, and the Photographic Autobiography, Lausanne: Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, in French translation, 2016 (museum catalog). Male Reproductive Rights: Mark Twain, August Strindberg, and Literary Paternity, Festschrift in Honor of Ross Shideler, Berkeley and Los Angeles: North Pinehurt Press, 2016, A Tradition of Torturing Women: Ingmar Bergman, his Nordic Predecessors and Successors, Blackwell Companion to Nordic Cinema, eds. Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist (London: Blackwell), 2016, Strindberg s Modern Ecological Subject: Swedish Nature Viewed from a Train in Spaces in-between: Cultural and Political Perspectives on Environmental Discourse. Leiden: Brill/Rodopi, 2015, Rugg is also on the board of the literary journal Samlaren, and is a co-editor for the third volume of the forthcoming Nordic Literary History, a three-volume work in English on Scandinavian literary history. Christian Gullette (Ph.D. candidate) has given talks in the U.S. and in Sweden on the racial and economic/class issues raised by the films of Ruben Östlund, particularly Play and Force majeure. He has also published translations of poems by contemporary Swedish authors. Zach Blinkinsop (graduate student) has spoken at our national conference on the Swedish drama of the 18th century. He received a grant from SWEA to conduct research in Stockholm and Uppsala in the summer of 2016, and he has been translating works by Olof von Dahlin. Ida Johnson (Ph.D. candidate) also received a SWEA grant and traveled to Sweden to pursue research on Astrid Lindgren's fan mail from her young readers. Ida's primary language is Norwegian, but she has become captivated by Swedish children's literature and has established contact with colleagues in that field in Sweden. She has given talks on Tova nsson. Adam Carl (graduate student) presented a paper on Selma Lagerlöfs novella, Herr Arnes penningar, at our national conference. 16. Stödet från Svenska institutet

5 På vilket sätt kan SI bäst stödja er verksamhet? Har du förslag på nya sätt vi kan stödja verksamheten på? We are very grateful for SI's support of the ASTRA conference, particularly the invitation of Swedish cultural figures and the willingness to fund graduate student accommodations. This is of great value for all of us, and we hope that SI can continue that support. If any more support could be extended to cover a part of grad student travel, that would be helpful. Some institutions do not have funds for that purpose, and it would be a pity to have people miss for that reason. We have also been the beneficiaries of SI sponsorship of visiting artists, also an important part of our departmental cultural life. 17. Övrigt: Glädjeämnen och/eller svårigheter No particular difficulties come to mind, except perhaps that the computer program that we use to submit this form is unnecessarily complicated. But perhaps that can be taken up at ASTRA and we can send some suggestions. 18. Publicering av läsårsredogörelsen på SI:s webbplats Godkänner du att läsårsredogörelsen publiceras på SI:s webbplats?