Key facts

UNE unit code: CLLA301

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  • Trimester 3 - Online
24/7 online support
  • Yes
Intensive schools
  • No
Supervised exam
  • Yes
Credit points
  • 6

Unit information

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This unit further consolidates your understanding of Greek or Latin syntax and style, taking your knowledge to an advanced level. You will read one major author in detail, paying close attention to content as well as syntax. In doing so, you will advance your understanding of the literary and historical features of your chosen language. You are required to continue to follow the language strand selected in your first and second-year CLLA units.

Offerings

For further information about UNE's teaching periods, please go to Principal Dates.

Teaching period
Mode/location
Trimester 3Online

*Offering is subject to availability

Intensive schools

There are no intensive schools required for this unit.

Enrolment rules

Pre-requisites
24cp in CLLA or Greek or Latin or a combination of CLLA or Greek or Latin including CLLA201 or GRK220 or LATN220 or equivalent
Restrictions
GRK320 for Greek strand or LATN320 for Latin strand

Notes

Coordinator for Greek: Matthew Dillon

Coordinator for Latin: Clemens Koehn

Please refer to the student handbook for current details on this unit.

Unit coordinator(s)

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Matthew DillonProfessor, Classics and Ancient History - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
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Clemens KoehnSenior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:

  1. apply reading skills to complex, unpredictable and extended Greek or Latin texts;
  2. independently apply knowledge and skills to generate and transmit solutions to sophisticated questions about the way in which a particular author uses an ancient language;
  3. analyse and evaluate complex, unpredictable texts using an appropriate metalanguage to complete a range of activities;
  4. apply and transmit specialist information about the style of particular authors, the requirements of the genre and historical and literary context of the text; and
  5. demonstrate broad technical and theoretical knowledge of an ancient language as well as specialist knowledge about a particular author/authors and modern responses to their work.

Assessment information

Assessments are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.

TitleMust CompleteWeightOfferingsAssessment Notes
Greek strand: Assessment 1Yes15%All offerings

Translation, grammar, and commentary.

No. Words: 750

Greek strand: Assessment 2Yes15%All offerings

Translation, grammar, and commentary.

No. Words: 750

 

Greek strand: Assessment 3Yes20%All offerings

Translation, grammar, and commentary.

No. Words: 1000

 

Greek strand: Assessment 4Yes30%All offerings

Essay

No. Words: 2000

 

Greek strand: Assessment 5Yes20%All offerings

Translation, grammar, and commentary.

No. Words: 1000

 

Latin strand: Assessment 1Yes15%All offerings

Language/Translation

No. Words: 750

 

Latin strand: Assessment 2Yes15%All offerings

Language/Translation

No. Words: 750

 

Latin strand: Assessment 3Yes15%All offerings

Language/Translation

No. Words: 750

 

Latin strand: Assessment 4Yes15%All offerings

Language/Translation

No. Words: 750

 

Latin strand: Assessment 5Yes40%All offerings

Supervised Exam

This online exam will be supervised via webcam and screen sharing technology. Coordinated by UNE Exams Unit.

It is mandatory to pass the Exam in order to pass the unit.

No. Words: 2000

 

Learning resources

Textbooks are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material. Please note that textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.

Plato and Xenophon. Apologies of Socrates

ISBN: 9780521145824

Plato and Xenophon, Cambridge University 1st 2019

Note: Greek Strand

Text refers to: All offerings

Plato’s Apology. Greek Text with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary

ISBN: 9780999188460

Plato, Geoffrey Steadman 1st 2020

Note: Greek Strand.

Text refers to: All offerings

Bellum Catilinae

ISBN: 9780195320855

Sallust (trans. J.T. Ramsey), Oxford University Press 2nd ed. 2007

Note: Latin Strand.

Text refers to: All offerings

The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek

ISBN: 9780521127295

van Emde Boas, E., Rijksbaron, A., Huitink, L., and de Bakker, M., Cambridge University Press 2019

Note: Greek Strand. Also available as eBook.

Text refers to: All offerings

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