Considerable Interest in the International Summer Course in Faroese

There is significant and growing interest among international students in attending the international summer course in Faroese at the University of the Faroe Islands.

Each summer, the Department of Faroese Language and Literature offers an international course in Faroese language, literature, and history, with considerable and increasing interest from international students.

As the application deadline passed, 46 applications were received from the Nordic countries, Germany, England, USA, Greece, Portugal, Japan, and Switzerland. The number is too large for everyone to be accommodated, but those who meet the admission requirements are placed on a waiting list.

A condition for getting a place on the summer course is that the applicants are enrolled in studies at another higher education institution and that they have basic knowledge of Germanic languages.

This year's course will be held from August 1st to August 21st, and it is Sissal Maria Rasmussen and Lena Reinert who are preparing and coordinating the course.

Bergur Durhuus Hansen, the dean of the Department of Faroese Language and Literature, believes that this international summer course is valuable as well as popular.

- Several of those who have attended the summer course in previous years are today translators from Faroese into other languages or have returned to the University as visiting researchers, written theses on Faroese, or have otherwise continued to work with Faroese, he says.

- The summer course also demonstrates the possibilities of developing international courses at the University as a whole, says Bergur Djurhuus Hansen.