Danish-Kierkegaard Course
The Danish-Kierkegaard Course at the Hong Kierkegaard Library is an intensive language course that is tailor-made for Kierkegaard scholars.
The course provides a foundation (basic grammar, phonetics and linguistic structures) for eventually developing a good reading knowledge of Danish and it explicitly incorporates Kierkegaard into exercises. The course will give a scholar an expanded knowledge of Kierkegaard's Danish which will enable him/her to examine sentences and smaller passages in the original language and check translations.
The whole purpose of this course is based on the idea of giving scholars access to Kierkegaard in his original language as many subtleties are lost in translation. However, learning a language is a time-consuming process and this course can only serve as an appetizer that hopes to nourish a desire to further explore Kierkegaard's works in Danish.
The class meets 3 hours a day for four weeks, Monday-Friday, and homework can be expected to take 1-2 hours a day. A certificate will be awarded after finishing the course.
The course was created and is taught by Dr. Sinead B.L. Knox, a native speaker, Kierkegaard scholar, and former fellow at the Hong Kierkegaard Library.
To apply for the course in 2010, please notify Cynthia Lund at lundc@stolaf.edu as soon as possible. Cost of the course is $1200 with a $300 deposit due by March 1 to hold your place in the class. Housing for participants is provided on the St. Olaf campus. If we have 10 students with interest, we will hold the class for sure. If you are also accepted as a Summer Fellow as well, cost of the course is reduced to $900 with the possibility of waiving your stipend to reduce the fees further.
