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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen Centre
Learners meet fairy tales that illustrate different facets of HCA’s authorship. Fairy tales inspired by folk tales, experimental rewritings, original HCA tales, tales with biblical themes and his new fairy tales. A peer reviewed assignment on HCA’s contemporary and cross-cultural relevance is included. The course adopts a social and participatory approach to learning. Learners study articles and short video lectures and are encouraged to engage in analyses and discussions throughout the course.
6 weeks, 5 hours per week
Jacob Bøggild
Professor
Hans Christian Andersen Centre
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe the life and works of the writer Hans Christian Andersen.
- Describe the fairy tale genre.
- Apply relevant models to the analysis of fairy tales.
- Interpret fairy tales and uncover themes and meanings.
- Discuss and compare different analyses and interpretations of fairy tales.
- Explain the themes embedded in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales.
- Reflect on and discuss Hans Christian Andersen’s contemporary and cross-cultural relevance.
Syllabus
- Introduction to Hans Christian Andersen, his life, works and contemporary society.
- Introduction to the fairy tale genre and the folk tale inspiration.
- Models for analysis of folk tales and fairy tales: the actantial model and the home-away-home model.
- Analysis and comparison of a folk tale ‘The Blue Light’ and a fairy tale Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Tinderbox’.
- Hans Christian Andersen’s experimental rewritings of folk tales with the folk tale ‘The Riddle’ and Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Spectre’ and The Travelling Companion’.
- Biblical themes in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales.
- An original Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale – ‘The Little Mermaid’.
- Hans Christian Andersen’s new fairy tales with ‘The Snow Queen’ and ‘The Story of a Mother’.
- Hans Christian Andersen’s recycling of the folk tale with ‘The Red Shoes.
- Hans Christian Andersen’s contemporary and cross-cultural relevance.
- How to engage in further studies of Hans Christian Andersen.
Issued on 2nd December 2016
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