INTERMEDIATE ANCIENT GREEK II (CL3070)

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This course builds on the skills acquired in Intermediate Ancient Greek I. Students read longer, more difficult texts and train basic methods of classical philology and literary criticism, e.g., metrical and stylistic analysis, textual criticism, use of scholarly commentaries and dictionaries, recognizing levels of style and characteristic generic features.

Code: 
CL3070
Name: 
INTERMEDIATE ANCIENT GREEK II
Discipline: 
CL (Comparative Literature)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
GK2005 OR GK2005CCI OR GK2005GE100
Co-requisites: 
None
Equivalencies: 
INTERMEDIATE ANCIENT GREEK II (GK3070)

Learning Outcomes

  1. For visitors who take a course in this form for the first time: You will train your ability to learn actively, in a self-directed manner (i.e. self-organization, awareness of own needs; ability to ask questions, to pinpoint problems and realize whether something has been understood or not) and to use the ancient language independently
  2. Having understood what kinds of issues are addressed by scholarship in Classics, you will begin to practice some of its methods yourself, especially the use of a scholarly commentary (in contrast to a mere reading aid for beginners) and textual criticism
  3. If poetry is being read: you will be introduced to metrical analysis or, if you have already begun this at the previous level, expand your knowledge and get to know new metrical forms
  4. You will explore more in-depth and more comprehensively aspects of our shared cultural and linguistic inheritance stemming from the ancient culture and their reception, including critical reflection on and comparison of ancient and modern concepts, values and cultural practices
  5. You will further increase your vocabulary and both confirm and develop your knowledge of Greek grammar
  6. You will learn how to assume responsibility for the correctness of your understanding, so that you become able to conduct wider ranging and independent research at the next level of Advanced studies
  7. You will practice and build a terminology for more sophisticated analysis and appreciation of individual styles, generic features and literary or poetic language
  8. You will read larger quantities of original Greek text fluently and independently

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