EPN-V2

Norwegian Language for Foreign Students, Intermediate Level Programme description

Programme name, Norwegian
Norwegian Language for Foreign Students, Intermediate Level
Valid from
2025 FALL
ECTS credits
7.5 ECTS credits
Duration
1 semester
Schedule
Here you can find an example schedule for first year students.
Programme history

  • Introduction

    Simon Pahle.

  • Target group

    The course is open to third-year Bachelor students in Development Studies at HiOA, and exchange students. Exchange students must have completed at least a one-year introductory course in Development Studies.

  • Admission requirements

    CONTENTS

    • Main features of the global aid industry: Actors and channels of finance; geographic and thematic destinations of aid; paradigms in and major debates about aid.
    • Norwegian aid in perspective: Features of public development policy from the 1980s and up to the present, in comparative perspective; the approach and work of select non-governmental organisations.
    • New actors, interventions and partnership types: Developing country donors; policy coherence and coordination including SDGs; advocacy and transnational activism; and corporate social responsibility.
    • 21st century trends: «Securitization», «environmentalization» and «commercification» of aid; effectiveness, evaluability and result based management in aid.
    • The politics of representation: The ways in which main actors in the development enterprise present development challenges; their own work and contributions; and the debates this gives rise to.

  • Learning outcomes

    See course plan.

  • Content and structure

    See course plan.

    Optional course Spans multiple semesters

    1st year of study

    1. semester

    Norwegian Language for Foreign Students, Intermediate Level
    NOIN6000 7.5 ECTS

  • Teaching and learning methods

    See course plan.

  • Work requirements

    See course plan.

  • Assessment

    See course plan.

  • Other information

    Norwegian Language for Foreign Students, Intermediate Level (7,5 ECTS)

    Approved by the Academic Affairs Committee at Faculty of Education and International Studies, December 12, 2019.

    Course plan valid from fall semester 2020.

    Programme Code: NOINT.

    Course Code: NOIN6000.