Latin Language (B) (U01144)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : HCL-4-LLANGB

Building on the experience gained in Latin Language (A), the course aims to promote linguistic accuracy, to improve skills in translation from Latin into English, and to develop stylistic and generic awareness. Such skills are cumulative and by the end of the fourth year should have reached an appropriately advanced level. Half of the course will relate to regular written practice in unseen translation, with feedback both by individual annotation and by discussion in tutorial when work is returned. Half of the course will relate to the study and discussion of style and genre, with passages from texts prescribed for the purpose. Oral discussion and formative written work will provide the opportunity for feedback on progress.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : Latin Language (A)

? Costs : None

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Latin, (School of History and Classics, Schedule E)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 4th year

? Delivery Period : Full Year (Blocks 1-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 1 hour(s) per week for 20 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
22/09/2005	11:10	12:00	Room 7.18, David Hume Tower	Central

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Thursday	11:10	12:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course students should:-
- have developed to an appropriately advanced level their fluency and accuracy of comprehension of Latin texts, both prose and verse;
- have enhanced their sensitivity to the relationship between Latin style and literary genre;
- have improved their competence in 'unseen' translation from Latin into English;
- be able to analyse and write a commentary on the style of a given passage.