CL5121 Latin Literary Culture (Language Option)

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

15

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SCQF level

SCQF level 11

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Planned timetable

TBC

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Module Staff

Team Taught

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Module description

This module is aimed at students who are working on Latin literature and culture and also taking language classes. It shares seminars with CL5021 but the assessment requirements and credit load are reduced. Through a series of focussed case-studies this module will introduce students to key areas and concepts central to modern research on Latin literary culture and enable them to devise their own short and independent research project under the guidance of an individual supervisor. The precise range of topics covered changes each year, but typical topics might include the relationship between politics and literature from republic to late antiquity; the impact of literary and cultural theory on the study of ancient texts; the role of literature in forming cultural identities; the development and interrelation of key genres and modes of literary interaction, including poetry, historiography, fiction and oratory; and the reception of Latin texts from late antiquity to the modern day.

Relationship to other modules

Anti-requisites

YOU CANNOT TAKE THIS MODULE IF YOU TAKE CL5021

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Resubmission of revised coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1x 2-hour seminar (x 8 weeks), up to 3 hours of one-to-one supervisory meetings.

Scheduled learning hours

19

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

130

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • Identify and describe key concepts and methodologies central to modern research on Latin literature and literary culture.
  • Analyse a range of different genres and types of Latin texts in relation to their social, cultural, intellectual and political contexts and in relation to their interactions with each other
  • Independently analyse and critically evaluate published research on Latin literary culture
  • Independently devise coherent and critically aware arguments both orally and in writing on key aspects of Latin literary culture via a thorough analysis of the set primary texts and the evaluation of relevant published scholarship
  • Demonstrate incipient aptitude in the key skills for independent translation and study of literary texts in the original Latin
  • Design and successfully complete a short research project under the guidance of an individual supervisor