Norwegian subject curriculum (NOR1-04)

Competence aims after the supplementary studies qualifying for higher education – vocational education programme

Oral texts

The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to

• provide concrete, insightful and relevant feedback on the oral presentations of others
• assess one's own oral development
• use specialised knowledge from one's own education programmes in presentations and discussions on school, society and working life
• analyse and assess the relationship between content, techniques and purpose in oral genres
• present topics from the Norwegian subject curriculum with the ability to critically review what is presented
• compose and present a delimited literary programme

Written texts

The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to

• read a selection of significant Norwegian texts from the middle ages up to 1870 in the original language and reflect upon the language and content
• elaborate on similarities and differences between the Nordic languages and between the Norse and modern Norwegian languages
• read and interpret experimental and modernist texts and be able to use these as the basis for one's own text production
• give grounds for his or her own reading choices and present problems for solutions related to the texts
• elaborate on a selection of Nordic texts in translation and in the original language
• describe and assess one's own reading and writing strategies
• master grammar and text connectors in the first-choice and second-choice Norwegian languages
• write essays, literary analyses and other reasoning texts in the first-choice and second-choice Norwegian languages based on literary texts and the history of Norwegian texts and language
• write technical texts according to common norms for technical writing in the first-choice and second-choice Norwegian languages
• write texts with a clear structure and a clear focus and argumentation based on facts
• use knowledge of texts, genres and literary techniques when producing fiction in the first-choice and second-choice Norwegian languages
• describe the development of one's own texts
• assess the argumentation in texts of others and support one's own claims through arguments based on fact
• use terminology from rhetoric to analyse and assess texts from various genres

Composite texts

The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to

• analyse and assess argumentation in and impact of texts in newspapers, on TV and the internet using terms from rhetoric
• assess the use of aesthetic techniques in various media
• compare and assess texts that are transferred from one medium to another
• use various media to interpret and present texts from various epochs

Language and culture

The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to

• elaborate on important lines of development and some major authors in Norwegian and European literature from the middle ages to the Romantic period and the relationship between this literature and other European cultural history
• explain how various concepts of what was typically Norwegian were created in major texts from 1800 to 1870
• explain how literature and other art expressions in and outside of Norway have mutually influenced each other in recent centuries
• discuss and elaborate on fellowship and diversity, cultural encounters and cultural conflicts based on a broad selection of Norwegian and foreign contemporary texts in various genres
• discuss and elaborate on aspects of Norwegian language policy and cultural development in a globalisation perspective
• assess linguistic nuances in translations from other languages mastered by the pupil
• discuss and elaborate on the modern project as expressed in texts by important authors from the Age of Enlightenment via Realism to the present
• elaborate on the modernist tradition in Norwegian and international literature from the final half of the 1800s until the present
• talk about the development of the Sami language and culture in view of the Norwegian policy of Norwegianisation
• elaborate on Norwegian language discussions and language policy from the 1830s to the present
• describe and compare the language situation and language policy in the Nordic countries
• elaborate on the relationship between spoken and written language and characteristics of a selection of Norwegian dialects
• use the central database of the library and other sources, both traditional ones and electronic ones, in one's own work
• complete the work on an independent task of in-depth studies and present this as an oral, written or composite text on a linguistic, literary or other topic from the Norwegian subject curriculum