Module description

The aim of the module is to teach the students basic communication skills in Norwegian: speaking, reading, writing and understanding everyday Norwegian.
In class: Reading Norwegian texts. Conversation in connection with texts and related everyday topics. Listening and pronunciation exercises. Occasional role-play and class presentations by individual students on topics they have prepared at home. Grammar is explained systematically and the students are given exercises in connection with grammatical points.
At home: Reading, essay writing, translation, grammatical exercises and occasional preparation of role-play and oral presentations.
The form of Norwegian taught will be bokmål. As soon as practical, all class interaction will take place in Norwegian.

Preparatory Reading

Elisabeth Ellingsen and Kirsti Mac Donald, Norsk på 1-2-3, Cappelen Damm, 2017.
One of the following grammars:

Åse-Berit and Rolf Strandskogen, Practical Norwegian Grammar, Oris forlag, 1986.
	Åse-Berit and Rolf Strandskogen, Norwegian: An Essential Grammar, Routledge, 1994.
	Kirsti Mac Donald and Marianne MacDonald, Exploring Norwegian Grammar, Cappelen Damm, 2013.
Dictionaries

All students must own a good English-Norwegian and Norwegian-English dictionary, one of the dictionaries must indicate the gender of Norwegian nouns.

Please note: This module description is accurate at the time of publication. Minor amendments may be made prior to the start of the academic year.

EMPIRE|EURASIA|EARLY MODERN HISTORY|MIDDLE EAST|SOUTH ASIA|EAST ASIA

After the death of Tamerlane in 1405, and the fragmentation of Tamerlane’s empire that formerly stretched across Eurasia, a number of new empires emerged...

After the death of Tamerlane in 1405, and the fragmentation of Tamerlane’s empire that formerly stretched across Eurasia, a number of new empires emerged or else expanded across the Middle East (the Ottoman and Safavid empires), South Asia (the Mughal empire), and East Asia (the Qing empire). In spite of their differences, these empires shared crucial similarities, both in their form and functioning (e.g. composite cultures, revenue administration, imperial ideology), and in their patterns of change, pointing towards their shared origins and their comparable experience of ‘global’ influences. This module serves as an introduction to the histories of the Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal and Qing empires and their respective regions, and also to the comparative history of empire.