Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2005-2006 (archived)

Module CLAS3081: ADVANCED GREEK 3

Department: CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY

CLAS3081: ADVANCED GREEK 3

Type	Open	Level	3	Credits	20	Availability	Available in 2005/06	Module Cap	None.	Location	Durham

Prerequisites

Advanced Greek 2 (CLAS2022).

Corequisites

Excluded Combination of Modules

None.

Aims

To give upper level students the opportunity to study selected texts in Greek, with related linguistic study.
This is appropriately taught by a combination of literature lectures, tutorials and language classes, and it is necessarily examined by separate language and literature papers.

Content

The module involves the study of selected texts in Greek.
these texts will change from year to year, but may include such authors as Hesiod, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Plato, or the lyric and Hellenistic poets.
It will also involve translation from Greek into English of seen and related unseen passages.
The texts studied in the module will be different from those studied in Further Greek 3.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

A knowledge of ancient Greek morphology, syntax and vocabulary appropriate for a student with three years' experience of Greek in Higher Education; a knowledge and understanding of a selection of works from a selection of Greek authors.

Subject-specific Skills:

An ability to construe a selection of texts from different ancient Greek authors with relatively limited use of dictionaries; an ability to translate selected passages of Greek unseen; an ability to read and interpret these texts in relation to a knowledge of Greek culture as acquired in a student???s previous two years of study in Higher Education.

Key Skills:

A critical understanding of the differences between two Indo-European languages, one ancient and one modern, and of the issues relating to moving between them.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

Lectures, tutorials and language classes.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Activity	Number	Frequency	Duration	Total/Hours
Lectures	22	1 Per Week	1 Hour	22
Tutorials	2	1 in Michaelmas Term, 1 in Epiphany Term	1 Hour	2
Language Classes	7	Approximately 3 Per Week	1 Hour	7
Preparation and Reading				169
Total				200

Summative Assessment

Component: Examination		Component Weighting: 100%
Element	Length / duration	Element Weighting	Resit Opportunity
two-hour written language examination		40%
two-hour written literature examination		60%

Formative Assessment:

Essays for the tutorials. Language exercises. No collections.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University