Courses In Scandinavian Doubled by NDEA Grant

Course offerings in Scandinavian languages and literature will more than double next year, Einar I. Haugen, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Scandinavian and Linguistics, announced last week.

The expansion is connected with the University's receipt of four four-year National Defense Education Act graduate fellowships to begin in 1965. Haugen explained that provisions of the Act require a university to enlarge its Scandinavian program with receipt of the grants.

The fellowships, which carry a total stipend of $6600 over tuition and fees, plus $400 yearly for each dependent, are given to encourage study and teaching of rare languages.

Haugen, who is the university's first professor in Scandinavian, will direct the expansion program. He came to Harvard in September after 33 years as chairman of the Department of Scandinavian at the University of Wisconsin.

The Norwegian language is Haugen's special field. His chief work is the two-volume Norwegian Language in American, published in 1953. He is presently at work on a Norwegian to English dictionary to he published next year.

The Scandinavian collection in Widener will be enlarged to provide for the new course offerings. The collection, begun by Henry W. Longfellow 130 years ago, is one of the most complete in an American university, "but some additions are needed now," Haugen said.

The nine new courses will include Scandinavian Mythology, Scandinavian Folklore, Introduction to Germanic and Norse Literature. The Age of Kierkegaard, and Advanced Danish, for undergraduates. The Department Germanic languages and Literatures will offer graduate courses in runic inscriptions and modern Swedish literature, as well as a seminar on Strindberg, and possibly a course on modern Icelandic.