How can you gain a profound understanding of the foundations of western civilisation, literature, culture and language? How can you progress your critical thinking, analytical skills, and problem solving? By building on your foundations in ancient Greek/Latin and continuing to cover the fundamentals of grammar and sentence structure, this module advances your ability to read, comprehend, and translate longer and more complex sentences and passages of ancient Greek/Latin. You will also be able to read a greater variety of authors, increasing your knowledge. Not only will you be set on the path to reading the authors who built the foundations of the western literary canon, but it will become easier to grasp another language, improve your English grammar, and give you the tools to succeed in diverse disciplines such as coding and computer programming, scientific, legal or medical careers.
Seminar - 16 hours
Workshop - 16 hours
Main Assessment Methods:
Test
Take home test (1,500 words). Assessment Details: Students have 48 hours to submit (50%).
Written
Homework assessments (5 x100 words each). Assessment Details: A variety of exercises focussing on grammar and/ or translations (50%).
Reassessment Method: Single instrument 100% written assessment (1,500 words)
On successfully completing the module, students will be able to:
1) Analyse a foundational level of ancient Greek/Latin grammar and syntax.
2) Categorise a foundational level of grammatical terms and the underlying principles of ancient Greek/Latin.
3) Examine and translate a foundational level of ancient Greek/ Latin vocabulary.
4) Evaluate basic reading skills and strategies in relation to ancient Greek/ Latin.
5) Identify and interpret problems with the appropriate tools in short translation passages in prose and/ or verse from ancient Greek/ Latin authors.
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