Norwegian subject curriculum (NOR1-04)

Competence aims after Vg3 – programmes for general studies

Oral texts

The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to

• compose and present a delimited literary programme
• analyse and assess the relationship between content, techniques and purpose in oral genres

Written texts

The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to

• read and interpret experimental and modernist texts and use these as the basis for one's own text production
• give grounds for one's own reading choices and present problems for solutions related to the texts
• master grammar and text connectors in the first-choice and second-choice Norwegian languages
• 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 about texts, genres and literary techniques when producing fiction in the first-choice and second-choice Norwegian languages
• use terminology from rhetoric to analyse and assess texts from various genres
• assess the argumentation in texts of others and support one's own claims through arguments based on fact
• describe the development of one's own texts

Composite texts

The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to

• compare and assess texts that are transferred from one medium to another
• analyse and assess argumentation in and impact of texts in newspapers, on TV and the internet using terms from rhetoric

Language and culture

The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to

• 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