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This course is a core course for students on a Single Honours or Joint Honours Latin academic plan. It builds on the course Intermediate Latin / Intermediate Latin for Honours, extending the students' familiarity with Latin authors and genres and deepening their understanding of semantics, syntax, and style. It is intended as a companion course to more thematically focused text reading courses at Honours level but can also be taken as a stand-alone course by students who do not need it as a core course (e.g. students on a Classics or Greek academic plan), if they meet the relevant entry requirements.

10 x 1 hour seminar per week in both semesters 1 and 2.

Satisfactory completion of College of Arts and Humanities requirements for entry into Honours as well as completion of Latin 2A or Intermediate Latin for Honours 1 with a grade of at least D3 and of Latin 2B or Intermediate Latin for Honours 2 with a grade of at least B3 in the first sitting, or at the discretion of the Head of Classics.

Intermediate Latin for Honours 1 LATIN4001 and Intermediate Latin for Honours 2 LATIN4002.

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The standard assessments for this course are: 

■ In-person, on-campus degree exam with access to a dictionary approved by Classics staff, 60%

■ Linguistic and stylistic take-home commentary on text passage, 40%

If required, for instance where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, the following alternatives are available: 

■ There are no alternatives to the assessments, but flexible deadlines/ extra time/alternative space can be offered as reasonable adjustment (Students should follow the usual process for extensions). 

Further reasonable adjustments may be provided where necessary. Students are encouraged to consult with the course convenor.  

It is the default expectation that all courses will offer opportunities for reassessment or deferred assessment. Where it is not possible to offer this in some assessment components, the grade achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade, and any exceptions for this course are described below.

[No exceptions]

This course aims to:

■ Broaden and deepen students' understanding and appreciation of ancient Latin both from a linguistic and a stylistic angle.

■ Introduce the students to a range of authors and genres, and familiarise them with the linguistic and stylistic characteristics.

■ Support the students to become stronger and more confident in the independent reading of Latin texts required for the elective Latin Honours courses.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

1. Translate Latin from a range of different genres into idiomatic and stylistically appropriate English with the help of a dictionary and other relevant resources.

2. Analyse syntactically a range of different ancient Latin texts.

3. Explain the nuances of the semantic choices made by the authors of these texts.

4. Comment confidently on the stylistic features of these texts.