Module Catalogue 2025/26

Pre Requisite Comment

CLA1012 needs to have been taken in a previous academic year.

Co Requisite Comment

N/A

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 and interpretation of 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

This module aims:
1. To further develop students' linguistic skills, as applied to reading and translating original literary texts in Latin;
2. To further develop students' skills in interpreting and analysing Latin literary texts.
3. To familiarise students with a range of resources (traditional and digital) employed in the advanced study of Latin literary texts.

Outline:
Students taking this module will work on selected literary texts in the original Latin joined under a particular
theme, with a focus on further developing skills of interpretation and analysis.

Intended Knowledge Outcomes

To develop students' ability to translate, understand and critically analyse and appreciate Latin texts, both seen and unseen, and of a linguistic and intellectual level appropriate for Level 2.

Intended Skill Outcomes

Subject specific skills: increased ability to translate, analyse and criticise Latin texts.
Cognitive/intellectual skills: increased ability to recognise patterns (whether linguistic, stylistic, thematic or conceptual).

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Synchronous small-group sessions are largely student-led, and provide the opportunity to collaboratively read, review and discuss the prescribed text(s), while further refining existing skills in:
- identifying and understanding a range of Latin linguistic and syntactical features;
- translating Latin into clear and fluent English;
- literary analysis.

Structured guided learning activities provide students with the opportunity to:
- acquire knowledge and understanding of broader themes, ideas and contexts (whether literary, historical, philosophical, socio-cultural);
- prepare for synchronous sessions; and assessments;
- further refine discipline-specific technical skills.

Guided independent study is intended as time for:
- skills practice;
- directed reading and research;
- preparing and completing any formative and summative assessments.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

Summative assessment is designed to assesses students' knowledge and interpretative understanding of the texts studied, with particular reference to the application of their linguistic knowledge, and their skills in presenting their views and analyses of key issues regarding the set text(s).
Exam is the best way of assessing language skills.
Essay 1 assesses skills in interpretation, based on the text in the original.

Formative assessment is designed to review, revise and consolidate linguistic knowledge and/or tools for the interpretation of texts.

General Notes

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