Culture

Learning about Cultures

• Culture learning strategies (From Maximizing Study Abroad)

Sámi culture

• Fact sheets: English / Norwegian / Sámi (galdu.org)

Norsknett posts about Norwegian cultural topics

• Art
  Day 3: City Hall (Wooden reliefs by Dagfin Werenskiold)

• Cuisine
  Day 2: Breakfast (Typical hotel breakfast)

• Education
  Day 2: University and Mac Store (Blindern campus of U. of Oslo)

• Energy
  Norwegian wind power

• Environmentalism
  Norwegian wind power

• Family
  Day 12: Sweden
  Day 10: My family
  Day 5: Norwegian family

• Film
  Premier of "Kurt blir grusom" (YouTube video and Aftenposten article)

• Gender equality
  Equality for women (YouTube video)

• Global perspective
  Global perspective

• Humor
  Political humor (YouTube videos of Gro Harlem Brundtland and Jens Stoltenberg)

• Identity
  Lasse Gjertsen: "Jeg går en tur" (YouTube video, exercise, and text)
• Language
  Official languages in Norway (Reference works for bokmål and nynorsk / YouTube video of Sámi language)
  Norwegian language council (Reference works for bokmål and nynorsk)

• Maps
  Global perspective
  

• Multiculturalism
  Official languages in Norway (YouTube video of Sámi language)
  Sámi videos and web exhibitions (YouTube videos and documents)

• Music
  Norwegian music videos (YouTube videos of Norwegian music videos)
  André: "Nå er det mandag igjen" (YouTube video and song lyrics)
  Erik og Kriss: "Lille Norge"  (YouTube video and song lyrics)

• Oslo
  Slides: The palace
  Day 6: Sightseeing (Bygdøy)
  Day 5: Norwegian family (Main harbor, Oslo fjord, Nesodden)
  Day 4: Boat trip (Oslo fjord)
  Day 3: City hall
  Day 2: University and Mac Store (Blindern campus of U. of Oslo)

• Outdoor life
  Norway's top 10 mountain hikes (Aftenposten article)
  Day 4: Boat trip

• Politics
  Political humor (YouTube videos of Gro Harlem Brundtland and Jens Stoltenberg)

• Relationships
  Dating in Norway (NRK article and exercise)

• Royal family
  Crown Prince Haakon is 35 today (NRK article)
  Slides: The palace

• Stores
  Day 2: University and Mac Store

• Sámi
  Sámi videos and web exhibitions (YouTube videos and documents)

• Travel
  Norway's top 10 mountain hikes (Aftenposten article)
  Day 2: Breakfast (Typical hotel breakfast)
  Day 1: My hotel