ATTN: Job Opportunity

ATTN: Job Opportunity - Swedish Instructor

(I am copying an email I received directly from SASS this afternoon):

"Rank: Career Instructor

Beginning September 16, 2012

The German and Scandinavian Department is seeking applicants for an instructor of Swedish. The position begins September 16, 2012.  The position is full time for one year, but with the possibility of renewal depending on need, funding, and performance.  Salary is dependent on education and experience.  Applicants must have native or near-native fluency in Swedish and one other Scandinavian language, preferably Danish, a Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies or a closely related field, and a demonstrated potential to teach at the college level.  The successful candidate will have the ability to teach language as well as general education courses in Scandinavian culture and literature, and to work effectively with faculty, staff, and students from a variety of diverse backgrounds.  Applications are only being accepted via email:  verwest@uoregon.edu.  For full consideration, applications should include a cover letter describing scholarly interests and qualifications for the position, curriculum vitae, a teaching portfolio, a writing sample, and three letters of recommendation (including at least one from someone who can address the candidate’s teaching).  To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by April 13, 2012, but the position will remain open until filled.  The University of Oregon is an EO/AA/ADAA employer committed to cultural diversity."

ATTN: OLD ENGLISH & INTENSIVE LATIN OPPORTUNITIES

I am copying information forwarded by Dr. Larry J. Swain of Bemidji State University concerning two intensive language courses in Latin and Old English. (As someone who has just spent the last academic year learning both of these languages (OE in the Fall, Intensive Latin this Spring! - I highly recommend it to any aspiring Medievalist.)

Hello all,

I am pleased to off the two courses listed below this summer online.
There are both undergraduate and graduate options.  If you are not a
Bemidji State University student, directions on admission can be found
here: http://www.bemidjistate.edu/academics/distance/admissions/   The
ability to use basic software is required, and much will be delivered
through D2L, a Blackboard like software that the student will be able to
access once enrolled for the class.  I’m looking forward to see some of
you there!

ENGL 3930/5930
Intensive Latin Online
Dr. Larry Swain
Bemidji State University

Course Description:  This course is an intensive introduction to Latin,
covering in eight weeks a full academic year’s worth of the language.
This will require a lot of work and dedication on the part of both
instructor and student.  By the end, however, the student should be able
to read Latin prose with the aid of a grammar and a good dictionary or
lexicon.  There will be a great deal of memorization.  Via our online
tools, discussion board, online office hours, recorded lectures, live
lectures, exercise sharing and corrections, and Q&A sessions delivered
via D2L, power point presentations, and other tools, we will go through
the entire text and master basic Latin.

The course will require a commitment from the student.  A MINIMUM of 2
hours and preferably 4-6 hours a day will need to be spent working on
the exercises, in class, interacting with the professor etc.  Because
delivery is online rather than in a traditional classroom, the need for
each individual student to apply him- or herself diligently daily is
even more important than in a face-to-face class.   Four days a week we
will meet virtually to explain the grammar lesson, to do some in class
exercises, to correct exercises, and so on, for approximately two hours.
 The rest of your time will be spent working on exercises, translating
sample passages of actual Latin, memorizing the forms.


Texts:
Intensive Latin by Floyd Moreland and Rita Fleischer
Other materials as assigned
(I will have advice about students’ dictionaries, additional grammar
aids in print and online and so on as well throughout the course).

Highly Recommended:   English Grammar for Students of Latin: The Study
Guide for Those Learning Latin by Norma Goldman and Ladislas Szymanski


English 3390/5390: Intensive Old English
Summer 2012
Dr. Larry J. Swain
Bemidji State University


This seminar is intended to accomplish three related objectives: 1) to
learn to read Old English and translate texts in Old English with
relative ease 2) to have an overview of Anglo-Saxon Literature and 3) to
place the language and literature into the historical, cultural,
theological, intellectual, and material contexts.  That's a tall order.
But like those we read who endure heroically, so shall we: we will be
able to by semester's end read Old English literature in Old English,
both prose and poetry.   The approach is simple.  This is an intensive
course, a full 15 week course offered over less than 8 weeks in Summer
delivered over D2L and the Internet.  This means that the student will
need to keep up and plan well.  Missing some elements of the course will
prevent successful completion.  We will cover approximately two chapters
a week, and during the last couple of weeks we will be working
exclusively in translating Old English texts.  This will require a
serious commitment on the part of the student as well as the instructor.

Textbooks:
Reading Old English: An Introduction by Robert Hasenfratz and Thomas
Jambeck

A History of Old English Literature by Michael Alexander

Recommended:
The Anglo-Saxons James Campbell