Aims

Students who have taken CLA1012, and wish to continue with Latin, may take this module. You will prepare the translation of the prescribed selections from one or more prose texts and/or a verse text. Our class work will mainly consist of translation and discussion of these selections, and of practising commentary on them. You will also get some practice in unseen translation of texts similar to selections.

The aim of this module is to develop students' ability to translate, understand and critically analyse and appreciate a range of Latin texts, both seen and unseen, and of a linguistic and intellectual level appropriate for Level 2.

Outline Of Syllabus

Prose and/or verse text(s) of a level appropriate for students who took the intermediate modules.

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Contact hours all to be taught as in-person, small-group sessions. Such highly interactive sessions are vital for monitoring and stimulating the development of students' knowledge and skills -- both skills in translation and in critical analysis and appreciation of the set texts. Such sessions are also important for developing and maintaining an environment in which students know they can make mistakes without feeling they are behind, and in which they can instantly learn from these mistakes.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

This module is designed to promote the abilities to translate and to interpret Latin texts, both seen and unseen.

An examination is still inevitably the best way of testing translation abilities in both seen and unseen texts, and will also test the ability to interpret texts.

The submitted commentary exercise mainly tests skills of interpretation.

The assessment mechanisms will thus achieve a close fit with the learning outcomes.