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UPDATE: FALL SEMESTER This semester, the Norwegian Department is offering 10 courses ranging from four sections of Beginning Norwegian to one section of Norwegian Literature. This fall our enrollments are up, with approximately 200 students taking Norwegian at all levels. Solveig Zempel, Margaret Hayford O'Leary, and Nancy Aarsvold are currently teaching full-time in the Norwegian Department, and Torild Homstad is teaching part-time. King Olav V Professor of Scandinavian-American Studies, Odd Lovoll, will be lecturing at the University of Oslo during fall semester, but he will return to teach at St. Olaf during Interim and Spring Semester.
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REVIEW: SUMMER ACTIVITIES On June 12-14, the Norwegian Department, St. Olaf, the Norwegian Teachers Association, and the Norwegian Information Service hosted a multimedia workshop for 25 Norwegian teachers from across the country. The participants attended a lecture and discussions about integrating technology into language instruction, and they went to hands-on sessions about surfing the web, creating web pages, scanning and manipulating images, and making electronic presentations. In the spring, Margaret Hayford O'Leary and Nancy Aarsvold received a computing grant from the ACC to create electronic grammar exercises. For two weeks in July, they wrote explanations and exercises for each of the main grammar topics, and these will be tested in Norwegian courses here at St. Olaf this fall. The electronic grammar exercises will be available for purchase on a CD-Rom in 1998. |