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Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 30 tri-weekly lectures and 20 bi-weekly PGTA-led seminars.
Content: An introduction to the classical Latin language, including the study of grammar, principles of sentence construction and the reading of selected texts. The course aims to provide students with a knowledge of classical Latin language and principles of sentence construction sufficient to translate simple passages of Latin prose into English and simple English phrases and sentences into Latin. Two classes per week will be split into small groups, each group taught by a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant.
Skills: Students should be trained in translating Latin texts into English and English sentences into Latin, learning vocabulary and studying Latin grammar and syntax. By the end of the course, students are expected to have reached a level approximately equivalent to the end of chapter 39 of the module text, Learn to Read Latin Book.
Module text: Keller, A. & Russell, S., 2015 (NB this is the second edition). Learn to Read Latin (Sections 1 to 39). Yale UP.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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