Postgraduate Course: Reading Old English (LASC11058)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course focuses on the acquisition of the skills necessary to work with Old English text, both in edited and in unedited form. It provides students with an opportunity to acquire a reading knowledge of Old English, together with a command of central aspects of its grammar. In addition, they will learn to transcribe passages from facsimiles of Old English manuscripts, and they will prepare a student edition of one such short passage. |
| Course description |
The course will start by concentrating on the rapid acquisition of essential basic grammar, consolidated through exercises, and on the translation of short passages of simple Old English prose. Once the basics are in place, the level of difficulty and length of the passages will increase. Less central aspects of the grammar will be dealt with gradually, over the course of the semester. At this stage, we will also begin with work on transcribing and analysing Old English from facsimiles of manuscripts, which will alternate with the translation work using printed texts.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 27,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
167 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
40 %,
Coursework
60 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Students will be assessed by means of a project (50%) and one 2 hour examination (50%).
Assignment Submission Deadline:
Assignment Return Date:
Exam:
Exam Return Date: Approximately 3 weeks after exam date |
| Feedback |
Students will on several occasions be offered the opportunity to hand in a particular exercise, which will be returned to them with corrections; they get one brief and informal test in class (which will be corrected, but not marked); they get an exam briefing; they get a briefing on what is expected in the assignment, plus a separate short briefing with the MSc students to explain the different requirements for the MSc version of the assignment; and a revision session shortly before the exam where (as well as dealing with any general questions) we go through any parts of the provided past exam paper that the students present want to go through. |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S1 (December) | Reading Old English (Msc) | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- read and translate unseen West Saxon prose with the aid of a glossary or dictionary
- analyse unseen Old English in terms of morphological and syntactic properties
- transcribe Old English from facsimiles of manuscripts
- make a student edition of part of a facsimile of an Old English manuscript
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Reading List
Campbell, A. (1959) Old English grammar. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Clark Hall, John R. (1960) A concise Anglo-Saxon dictionary, 4th edn. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [with a supplement by Herbert D. Meritt]
Hogg, Richard M. (ed.) (1992) The Cambridge history of the English language, 6 vols, vol 1, The beginnings to 1066. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Hogg, Richard M. (1992) A grammar of Old English, vol 1, Phonology. Blackwell, Oxford.
Hogg, Richard M. (2002) An introduction to Old English. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
Hogg, Richard M. and R.D. Fulk (2011) A grammar of Old English, vol 2, Morphology. Whiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA, and Oxford.
Godden, Malcolm and Michael Lapidge (1991) The Cambridge companion to Old English literature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Lapidge, Michael, et al. (eds) The Blackwell encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Blackwell, Oxford.
Marsden, Richard (2004) The Cambridge Old English reader. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Mitchell, Bruce (1985) Old English syntax, 2 vols. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Mitchell, Bruce (1995) An invitation to Old English & Anglo-Saxon England. Blackwell, Oxford.
Mitchell, Bruce and Fred C. Robinson (2001) A guide to Old English, 6th edn. Blackwell, Oxford.
Quirk, R. and C. L. Wrenn (1957) An Old English grammar, 2nd edn. Methuen, London.
Whitelock, Dorothy (1967) Sweet's Anglo-Saxon reader: in prose and verse, 15th edn. Clarendon Press, Oxford. [rev Dorothy Whitelock] |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Attend all lectures as scheduled |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Linda Van Bergen
Tel: (0131 6)51 1998
Email: l.vanbergen@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Toni Noble
Tel: (0131 6)51 3188
Email: Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk |
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