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Programme and Module Handbook

Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2005-2006 (archived)

Module CLAS3101: ADVANCED LATIN 3 (IMPERIAL PERIOD)

Department: CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY

CLAS3101: ADVANCED LATIN 3 (IMPERIAL PERIOD)

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

Prerequisites

  • Advanced Latin 2 (Augustan Period) (CLAS2042).

Corequisites

Excluded Combination of Modules

  • None.

Aims

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

Content

  • The module involves the study of selected texts in Latin, along with related language study.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:
  • A knowledge of Latin morphology, syntax and vocabulary appropriate for a student with three years' experience of Latin in Higher Education; a knowledge and understanding of a selection of works from a selection of Latin authors.
Subject-specific Skills:
  • An ability to construe a selection of texts from different Latin authors with relatively limited use of dictionaries; an ability to translate selected passages of Latin unseen; an ability to read and interpret these texts in relation to a knowledge of Latin 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 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