UCL - Thorough Study of Latin authors

[GLOR2432]

[45h] 5 credits

This two-yearly course is taught in 2008-2009, 2010-2011,...

Teacher(s):

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

To train the students in various analysis methods of analyzing literary texts by introducing them to the message of Latin authors of the Republican and Imperial age.

Main themes

Philological and literary study of important extracts of Latin authors of the Republican and Imperial Age; documentary value of the work (author, age, realia); human value of the conveyed message (continuity and breaks) ; linear and structuring reading; translation of text, accompanied by a comprehensive commentary. This course makes use of modern information and communication technologies. It involves teamwork in a discussion forum as well as other web-based activities.

Content and teaching methods

Thorough study and comments of Latin authors of the Republican and Imperial Age. Survival and alteration of themes, images, literary genres in Late Latin. This course uses information and communication technologies by implementing interactive pedagogy. All the resources of philological and literary comments, and the study of metrics and of its stylistic potentialities are used when reading the works of the poets. In 2006-2007, the tragedy Medea of Seneca.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Evaluation : oral exam.