Swedish and Swedish Teaching 1

Courses in Comparative Literature which are the first subject encountered by teacher education students include an introduction to the subject's role in the academic professional programme. Swedish and Swedish teaching 1-30 ECTS cr consists of four modules of 7.5 ECTS cr each. Module 1 Literary Theory, Methods, Practice and Concepts runs parallel with Module 2 and introduces literary theory and method, literary analysis and interpretation as well as the history of poetics and literature teaching methodology. Module 2 Survey of the History of Western Literature surveys and critically reviews the history of literature till 1900. The module includes a global perspective on literary history presentations. Module 3 Perspectives on Literature establishes a tentative and experimental approach to 20th century literature in Swedish through adopting a number of perspectives. Students contribute to course content by choosing presenting literature that reflect the different perspectives. Students gradually develop a practice-oriented approach with a focus on methods for planning and implementing teaching. There is a special emphasis on how theoretical perspectives can be transformed into teaching and how teaching practice can be understood in terms of theory. Students develop oral, written and academic skills in several course components in preparation for the concluding independent project of the teacher programme. The whole course is imbued with a reflected and subject teaching approach. The course also includes preparation for the practical placement period in the second term. Module 4 Reading Strategies and Contemporary Fiction focuses oncontemprary fiction and the development of reading strategies and understanding, with an emphasis on factive reading approaches and multimodal texts. Theoretical perspectives on the relation between text, reader and readings are treated and examples of literature teaching methods and forms of analysing and interpreting the Swedish school curriculum and ints knowledge requirements in teaching are presented.