CLA2002 : Level 2 Latin: Special Study - Undergraduate Study

Offered for Year: 2025/26

Module Leader(s): Dr Nick Freer

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.

Semester 2 Credit Value:	20
ECTS Credits:	10.0
European Credit Transfer System

Aims

This module aims:

1. To further develop and refine 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 Of Syllabus

Students taking this module will undertake work on literary texts in the original Latin. The particular texts will be determined on a yearly basis, taking into account
(i) availability of staff to supervise a particular option.
(ii) Students’ preferences and previous reading.
(iii)The need to avoid overlap between a student’s Stages 2 and 3.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities

Category	Activity	Number	Length	Student Hours	Comment
Guided Independent Study	Assessment preparation and completion	74	1:00	74:00	N/A
Guided Independent Study	Directed research and reading	75	1:00	75:00	Module reading and resource list; wider self-identified resources
Guided Independent Study	Skills practice	18	1:00	18:00	Grammar revision and consolidation
Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities	Small group teaching	33	1:00	33:00	N/A
Total	200:00

Jointly Taught With

Code	Title
CLA3002	Level 3 Latin: Special Study

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

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;
- reading and translating Latin;
- 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;
- 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 Methods

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

Exams

Description	Length	Semester	When Set	Percentage	Comment
Written Examination	120	2	A	50	120-minute exam on an unseen text

Exam Pairings

Module Code	Module Title	Semester	Comment
Level 3 Latin: Special Study	2	N/A

Other Assessment

Description	Semester	When Set	Percentage	Comment
Essay	2	A	50	2,000 word research project

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.

Description	Semester	When Set	Comment
Prob solv exercises	2	M	Discipline-specific skills exercises

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).
The exam is designed to test the students' skills, developed over the course of the semester, in translating and interpreting an unseen text.
Essay 1 assesses skills in interpretation, based on the text in the original.
Formative assessments are designed to tests skills relevant to the exam in particular.

Reading Lists

CLA2002's Reading List

Timetable

Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
CLA2002's Timetable

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