Undergraduate - UnitATS4702 - Classical languages for researchers

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Archaeology and Ancient History
Offered	Clayton First semester 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides

Synopsis

The unit is offered to Honours and postgraduate students who need specialist skills in ancient Greek and/or Latin. Students are divided into two cohorts depending on the language of their preference and undertake guided reading complemented by advanced language tuition.

Outcomes

By the completion of this unit, it is expected that students will able to:

Engage in independent research based on texts written in ancient Greek or Latin
Have a thorough understanding of the history and development of ancient Greek or Latin language
Have a thorough understanding of the history of Greek or Latin literature (history, poetry, oratory etc)
Be familiar with a number of genres of ancient Greek or Latin writing and their conventions

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Ancient cultures