Brand new course reader for $35. While other books are not necessary...The course reader is a NEED for this class. *************

Interesting and funny course. Professor Wen is super nice. TAs are very responsible. Reading his assignments is very important since his exams are based on that.

Selling course reader, dwarf, naive super, shadow, hunger, and anecdotes of destiny TOGETHER for $70. These books are for Scand 50 and all of them are required for this course. Message ********** if you're interested.

Pretty easy GE class, it's an athlete class. No discussion, only midterm and final.

Readings are so important!! It's so hard to bullshit the paper on midterm/final if you haven't read before section. He references a lot of the readings during lecture and it gets kind of confusing if you haven't at least skimmed his passages. Midterm and final is decent, as long as you've read and gone to section you'll do fine.

Material is not hard, mostly a memorization based class.
Selling my Course Reader + final notes + completed and graded midterm (got full marks) for $30 OBO!! Almost perfect condition for physical books. Text me **********

I liked this class a lot, it was a very easy A and the professor was super cool. The professors office hours weren't very accessible because so many students would attend and you would barely be able to speak, but the office hours weren't very necessary.

This class is incredibly easy. It's not as interesting as people say it is (although the fairy tales were interesting), but reading all the readings was not really necessary and overall was a really light workload of a class. There were two papers, one was about Hrafnkel's Saga and was slightly longer, the other a short-response paper that was basically our "final." There were weekly quizzes that accounted for a majority of the grade (I believe 80%) but they were ridiculously easy (some answers are just very obviously wrong) and not stressful at all. You can also drop your lowest quiz score. They did require you to watch some of his lectures, but I overall got away with not reading every reading.

Selling Scandinavian 50 Course Reader for $30.00. Literally brand new, hasn't been used.

Professor Wen dumbs this class down too much. I understand this is an introductory course, but his constant repetition and use of slang, like "dude" and "cool," in his lecture discussions of Scandinavian literature didn't make the texts any more accessible; rather, they made me me feel like he was patronizing my intelligence. Also, it is a grievous INJUSTICE that the "volunteers" for Hrafnkel's trial get an automatic A for the first assignment when the majority said one or two lines on the fly (no one really prepared except the prosecution and the defense attorneys)— so let me break this down: the bailiff gets 100% for saying "Quiet down" once in a while, and I get less than a 100% (because in the real world, 100% is and should be hard to come by) on a 3-page paper that required literary analysis and an argument ... INJUSTICE. Finally, serious students deserve a serious consideration of these texts (all very good, especially The Dwarf and Naive. Super), and as the class is right now, they are not getting that. They're getting watered-down, uninspired plot summary mixed with sweeping, general statements. I don't know what kind of pressure Wen is under from a certain department, but if he's going to pander to a certain constituency, maybe there should be an enrollment restriction on the class.

If you do want to take this class to get the easy A (why most people do take the class, including myself), try to get Glenn Brewer as your TA. Poor Glenn- a seasoned English TA walking into Scandinavian 50- that must feel like getting hit by a truck. Despite the student-babying regimen that higher-ups undoubtedly recommended, Glenn did his best to make students accountable for readings and for their ideas (plot summary might fly with Wen, but not in discussion and not on the midterm... it remains to be seen if he had to compromise his academic integrity to ensure the masses got As on the final). His discussion of the texts was critical and enlightening (absent in lecture), and he creates good rapport with his students. The only one "weakness" I perceived was his paper-grading method; the numbers felt a little arbitrary, and it would have been nice to have explicit reasons as to why points were docked.

Great class!! Selling used course reader for $35. Light edgewear, no markings inside. Please contact me at amanpanman @ gmail.com if you're interested :)

Oh, and of course try to volunteer for the court trial of Hrafknel. It was loads of fun being on stage, and it gets you out of a writing assignment. In addition, I don't think anyone can really complain about the grading here. It's really easy and extra credit opportunities usually are abundant. Take this class if you a want a great GE to balance a heavy course load.

Took this class Fall 2011. I enjoyed professor Wen's lectures and actually appreciated that he could translate Scandinavian culture and literate into laymen's terms and everyday vernacular. Wen tries to connect the course material to everyday life, and keeps the course load light for all with occasional movies/video clips. Apparently, Wen has a love for the melancholy Dane Soren Kierkegaard, who was mentioned every lecture or so. The reading material was excellent, ranging from HC Anderson's fairytales, Babette's Feast to the denser/heavier material in Hunger. I would recommend this class, but know that this is only a brief survey of Scand lit. With an hour long discussion and a large section, it's hardly possible to get in depth with literary analysis. Instead, maybe go to office hours if you want explore the subject even more.