• Inactive for Year: 2025/26

• Module Leader(s): Dr Susanna Phillippo

• Owning School: History, Classics and Archaeology
• Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus

Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Aims

1. To further develop and refine students' linguistic skills, as applied to reading and translating original literary texts in Greek;
2. To further develop students' independence in interpreting and analysing Greek literary texts.
3. To put into practice a range of resources (traditional and digital) in the advanced study of Greek literary texts.

Outline Of Syllabus

Students taking this module will read an Ancient Greek literary text, with a focus on refining skills of interpretation and analysis. The text(s) studied will be determined on a yearly basis, taking into account staff expertise and the need to avoid overlap between yearly set texts.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities

Jointly Taught With

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Weekly small-group teaching is student-led, and provides the opportunity to collaboratively read, review and discuss the prescribed text(s), while further refining existing skills in:
- identifying and understanding a range of Greek linguistic and syntactical features;
- translating Greek into clear and fluent English;
- literary analysis.

Structured guided learning activities provide students with the opportunity to:
- review knowledge and understanding of broader themes, ideas and contexts (whether literary, historical, philosophical, socio-cultural);
- prepare for weekly sessions;
- 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 assessment.

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Other Assessment

Formative Assessments

Formative Assessment is an assessment which develops your skills in being assessed, allows for you to receive feedback, and prepares you for being assessed. However, it does not count to your final mark.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

Formative assessment is designed to practice skills which will be essential for the completion of any summative assessment, and to enable feedback at a crucial stage of the planning process. 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).

The essay allows MA students to engage with a core aspect of their set text(s) through a question of their own choosing, while practicing the fundamental academic skill of constructing an argument.

The commentary exercise enables students to collaborate on a project which is explicitly linked to their set text and the learning outcomes of the module. It also builds skills in project management and delivery: students will (with support) investigate the best medium and format for creating and disseminating their commentary, before undertaking a detailed linguistic and interpretative study of the set text. Students will work on the project for the duration of the course, completing a formative in-class presentation mid-semester to outline their initial plans for feedback and reflection, and submit the final version during the assessment period.

All Erasmus students at Newcastle University are expected to do the same assessment as students registered for a degree.

Study-abroad, non-Erasmus exchange and Loyola students spending the whole academic year or semester 2 are required to complete the standard assessment as set out in the MOF under all circumstances.

Reading Lists

• CAG8002's Reading List

Timetable

• Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
• CAG8002's Timetable