The minor allows students to acquire an additional skill and deepen their knowledge of the ancient world from the first two years of their degree course. The course opens up the Antiquity to students and facilitates access to master's classes that deal with the various areas of ancient civilizations.
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Students must gain a total of 30 credits over two years; ideally they should aim for 15 credits per year. The list of possible courses is below; however, they should not form part of the compulsory courses for the major in the second or third years. | |||||||||||||||||||
Language and literature a minimum of 5 credits from the following : (FLTR 1770, GLOR 1431, GLOR 1441, GLOR 1481, GLOR 1482, GLOR 1491 and GLOR 1492 are open to students who can demonstrate an adequate knowledge of Latin. Students who take these courses must have either studied Latin for four hours per week during the last four years of secondary education or pass an assessment test at the beginning of the year. Students who do not fulfil these conditions must take FLTR 1760. | |||||||||||||||||||
LFLTR1760 |
Begining Latin | Alain Meurant | 30h + 30h | 5credits | 1q | x | x | ||||||||||||
LFLTR1770 |
Beginning Greek | Claude Obsomer | 30h + 30h | 5credits | 1q | x | x | ||||||||||||
LGLOR1413 |
Introduction to Oriental Languages and Literature | Godefroid De Callatay, Johannes den Heijer, Jean-Claude Haelewyck, Claude Obsomer, Andrea Barbara Schmidt, Christophe Vielle (coord.) | 60h | 7credits | 2q | x | x | ||||||||||||
LGLOR1431 |
Latin Literature (in French) | Paul Deproost | 15h | 3credits | 2q | x | x | ||||||||||||
LGLOR1441 |
Greek Literature | Anne-Marie Doyen | 15h | 3credits | 2q | x | x | ||||||||||||
LGLOR1481 |
Latin Authors : Poetry (in French) | Paul Deproost | 45h | 6credits | 1+2q | x | x | ||||||||||||
LGLOR1482 |
Latin Authors : Prose-Writing (in French) | Paul Deproost | 45h | 6credits | 1+2q | x | x | ||||||||||||
LGLOR1491 |
Greek Authors : Poetry | Anne-Marie Doyen | 45h | 6credits | 1+2q | x | x | ||||||||||||
LGLOR1492 |
Greek Authors : Prose-Writing (in French) | Anne-Marie Doyen | 45h | 6credits | 1+2q | x | x | ||||||||||||
History A minimum of 5 credits from | |||||||||||||||||||
LFLTR1420A |
Seminar of Historical Foundations of Western Civilisation : Antiquity | Françoise Van Haeperen | 22.5h | 3credits | 2q | x | x | ||||||||||||
LHIST1381 |
Fundamentals of institutional and political history : antiquity | Françoise Van Haeperen | 15h | 3credits | 1q | x | x | ||||||||||||
LHIST1431 |
Specialized heuristics and exercises on questions of history : antiquity | Françoise Van Haeperen | 15h + 15h | 4credits | 1q | x | x | ||||||||||||
LHIST1391 |
Seminar : Antiquity | Françoise Van Haeperen | 22.5h | 7credits | 1q | x | x | ||||||||||||
History of art and archaeology A minimum of 5 credits from | |||||||||||||||||||
LARKE1431 |
Historiography and Epistemology of Archaeology and Art History II | Ralph Dekoninck, Jan Driessen | 30h | 5credits | 2q | x | x | ||||||||||||
LARKE1451 |
Art and civilisations : Egyptian and Near-Eastern Antiquity | N. | 37.5h | 5credits | x | x | |||||||||||||
LARKE1452 |
Arts et civilisations : North-West Europe Archaeology (in French) | Raymond Brulet | 37.5h | 5credits | x | x | |||||||||||||
LARKE1454 |
Art and Civilisation : Greek and Roman Antiquity | Marco Cavalieri, Jan Driessen | 37.5h | 5credits | 2q | x | x | ||||||||||||
Christian tradition, philosophy and law A minimum of 5 credits from | |||||||||||||||||||
LTHEO1381 |
History of Christianity: Antiquity | Jean-Marie Auwers | 30h | 3credits | 1q | x | x | ||||||||||||
LTHEO1202 |
Patrology | Jean-Marie Auwers | 45h | 4credits | 2q | x | x | ||||||||||||
LDROI1003 |
Foundations of Law | René Robaye | 60h + 12h | 6credits | 2q | x | x | ||||||||||||
LFILO1280 |
History of philosophy 1 : History of ancient philosophy (in French) | N. | 30h | 3credits | x | x | |||||||||||||
Academic in charge: Françoise VAN HAEPEREN
Contact people : Sibylle D'HONDT and Chantal Marquet, administrative secretaries of the department of history, Collège Erasme, office b 241, , tel. : 010/47.49.35.
Enrolling for the minor
1. Organizational details
This point does not apply to this minor.
2. Admission to the minor
This point does not apply to this minor.
3. Enrolling on the minor
In Year 2 of the bachelor’s degree
Students may enrol online for their minor after having enrolled for their year of study.
Students who are retaking their second year are automatically re-enrolled for the same minor.
In Year 3 of the bachelor’s degree
When they enrol for the third year, students are automatically enrolled for the second part of the option course. The same applies to students retaking their third year (BAC3).
All requests for exemption from this rule must be submitted to the adviser from the relevant programme.
5. Changes to the minor enrollment form
Requests to change the enrollment form, must be sent, with supporting reasons, to the conseiller aux études (course adviser) of the faculty to which the student belongs by 10 October.
Course timetable
1. Consulting the course timetable
The timetable can be consulted at this address: http://www.uclouvain.be/232660.html.
Students must also consult the general faculty timetable on the Zeus site: http://www.uclouvain.be/fltr.html
for courses which do not feature on the list of minor course times.
Last-minute changes are included in the section "valves étudiants" (student bulletin board) on the following site:
http://www.uclouvain.be/fltr.html
2. Resolving possible timetable clashes using an equivalence table
The equivalence table may be consulted in the secretariat of the department which is running the minor. Contact person : the person in charge of the minor, for advice and approval of possible changes.
Enrollment form for minor activities
1. Information on entry requirements
This point is not applicable to this minor.
2. Enrolling for minor program activities
Enrolment for activities (courses) in the minor should be done at the same time as enrolment for activities (courses) in the main subject.
Enrolment for courses is done by using the special menu in the virtual office.
3. Obtaining a visa from the person in charge of the minor
Once the activities form has been filled in, the student must ask the person in charge of the minor for a visa in order to pass it on to his/her faculty secretariat.
Available support
1. Information on the course service
A certain number of lectures should, over time, be available on the Web and should ideally be accompanied by exercises to aid self-study.
Ask full-time course staff members for further information.
2. Consulting the table of available support for each activity
Please ask full-time members of staff for information.
Where alternative pedagogical systems are proposed for an activity, they are only intended for students who are enrolled on the activity in question as part of their minor and who have demonstrated that they are unable to attend classes. The written consent of the teacher will be required.
Organization of exams
1. Registering for exams
Registering for minor course exams is done on the registration form for the main year of study (your department's secretariat).
2. Consulting exam times
Exam times can be consulted at the following address: http://www.uclouvain.be/232697.html.
N.B. : to register on the "open" lists for some exams, students should make direct contact with the central secretariat of the Faculté de philosophie et lettres.