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Checkpoint Charlie - A Journey through history!

  • Course length: All year
  • Start-up date: 24.08.2025
  • Course teaching amount: 16 hours/week
  • Price: from 133 500,-
  • Foundation:
    Liberal
    The liberal folk high schools are built on values that are not based on one particular belief. They encourage students with different interests and beliefs to apply.
  • Food: Vegetarian, vegan
    Most schools will accommodate food allergies and other dietary needs. If you have questions, please contact the school directly.
  • Location: Søgne i Kristiansand
  • Study tour for the course: Interrail - A journey through European history! , Oslo/Bergen/Stavanger, Sørlandet
  • Study tour for the school: Common trips

This program is for those who are curious about the world around them, who want to step into the past and uncover the answers to how Europe became what it is today.

Have you ever wondered what it was like to live in the past? What it might have been like to be a petty criminal in 18th-century Norway, a prostitute in Pompeii, or a farmer in medieval France? That’s exactly what we try to explore at the history program *Checkpoint Charlie* – Norway’s only history-focused line at a folk high school!  

We seek out history in our local surroundings here in Southern Norway and expand our journey across the country and into Europe. History has happened everywhere, and we’re lucky to have a treasure trove of “crime scenes” right outside the school doors. Here’s just a small taste:

- Interrail with visits to several European capitals  

- Learn about Norwegian pirates from the Napoleonic wars and “capture” a British trade ship  

- Sleep over in a lighthouse keeper’s house and search for shipwrecks  

- Visit the ship D/S Hestmanden, known from the film *War Sailor*  

- Roast a leg of lamb in a Stone Age-style cooking pit  

- Gain insight into queer history  

- Cook historical meals and brew your own mead  

- Learn the basics of genealogy and research your own family history  

- Learn about the persecution of Jews in Kristiansand, in the former Gestapo headquarters “Arkivet”  

- Visit the slave ship *Fredensborg* in Arendal to learn about Norway’s involvement and profit in the transatlantic slave trade  

 

 

Learn Norwegian and study Norwegian at Agder Folkehøgskole!

The school is situated in Kristiansand, in beautiful surroundings 17 km west of the city center, the southern-most city in Norway.

Agder Folkehogskole offers a course in Norwegian language and culture for foreigners:

Introduction course in Norwegian language and culture. The course also contains subjects as Norwegian everyday life and manners, Norwegian culture and economic life. Learning takes place in a creative environment. Challenging excursions, electives and common activities. There is no tuition fee. The money you pay include lodging in double room, teaching material and study trips. 

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