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‘Narrating the Extreme'
is an Intensive Programme in Narratology (IPIN), designed to meet the needs of students interested in a brief but challenging educational experience during the summer. It takes the teaching of narratives and narrative theory in Europe to the highest possible level by bringing together participants in the leading centres of narrative study in Europe. The programme targets students, mainly masters and advanced bachelors, who are working with narratives for instance in written texts (fiction or non-fiction), in film, in computer games, in organizations and in marketing.
The main aim of the course is to investigate the ways in which both current and past culture use narratives in order to give form to extreme events, to extreme experiences, to extreme places and to extreme values and viewpoints, both on an individual and collective basis. The course provides students with an excellent opportunity to meet international lecturers and fellow students and to earn credit.
The Intensive Programme in Narratology is funded by Cirius as a join effort between six large European Universities: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, University of Tampere, University of Tartu, University of Oslo, University of Southern Denmark and Aarhus University. Students from these partner universities have special financial options (refer to the sections on "grant" and "accommodation" below).
‘Narrating the Extreme' is an Intensive Programme in Narratology (IPIN), designed to meet the needs of students interested in a brief but challenging educational experience during the summer. It takes the teaching of narratives and narrative theory in Europe to the highest possible level by bringing together participants in the leading centres of narrative study in Europe. The programme targets students, mainly masters and advanced bachelors, who are working with narratives for instance in written texts (fiction or non-fiction), in film, in computer games, in organizations and in marketing.
The main aim of the course is to investigate the ways in which both current and past culture use narratives in order to give form to extreme events, to extreme experiences, to extreme places and to extreme values and viewpoints, both on an individual and collective basis. The course provides students with an excellent opportunity to meet international lecturers and fellow students and to earn credit.
To be admitted you must be enrolled at a university. If you are applying for admission to the summer school at master's level, you must hold a bachelor's degree or a minimum of 180 ECTS in your study programme. Students applying for admission at bachelor's level must have completed at least one year of study in a relevant subject.
Students are expected to have a high level of English proficiency, to be able to read the relevant literature and follow the teaching. Documentation may be required verifying the student's proficiency in English at a specified level.
Jan Alber, University of Freiburg (DE)
Maria Mäkelä, University of Tampere (FI)
Marina Grishakova, University of Tartu (EE)
Jakob Lothe,University of Oslo (NO)
Per Krogh Hansen, University of Southern Denmark
Brian Richardson, University of Maryland (USA)
Henrik Skov Nielsen and Stefan Iversen, Aarhus University (DK)
The course consists of more than 50 hours of classroom instruction, presented by at least seven different researchers in narratology from Germany, Norway, Finland, Estonia, USA and Denmark. Class attendance is compulsory and students are expected to participate actively in class discussions. Interaction and dialogue between professors and students is something we highly encourage. Before the course starts a reading list will be distributed to all participants. All texts on the reading list should be read as preparation, as they will be included in lectures during the summer school and in class discussions.
Engelsk
A CD-ROM containing all texts on the reading list will be available in May and will be sent to those who wish to receive a copy.
Students are assessed on the basis of an oral examination (30 minutes, plus 30 minutes' preparation) and on the basis of a course syllabus consisting of approximately 1,000 pages. To ensure objectivity and quality all students are examined and graded by a teacher and an internal co-examiner. Upon request, and with the permission of both examiners, examinations may be held in one of the Scandinavian languages, otherwise examinations will be in English.
