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           DEPARTMENT OF: CLASSICS                                              Academic Session:  
           Course Code:       CL2737         Course Value:       1.0            Status:                   Optional 
                                                                                (ie:Core, or Optional) 
                              Aspects of Modern Greek Language and              Availability:  
           Course Title:      Culture                                           (state which teaching     Throughout year 
                                                                                terms) 
           Prerequisites:     None (some knowledge of Ancient Greek             Recommended:               
                              recommended) 
           Co-ordinator:      Polymnia Tsagouria (Greek Government funded lecturer) 
           Course Staff       --- 
            
           Aims:               To provide students with the linguistic skills in modern Greek needed to cope with a variety of 
                               communicative situations and to use original source materials in Modern Greek 
                               To explore issues in Modern Greek history, literature, and culture with a focus on the 
                               language itself (esp. the ‘language question’ relating to katharevousa vs. dimotiki and 
                               external influences on the Greek language), and the reception of the classical tradition in 
                               Modern Greece. 
                                
                                
           Learning            Students successfully completing the course will be able to translate from Modern Greek into 
           Outcomes:           English using a dictionary, to show comprehension of reasonably sophisticated written 
                               materials in Modern Greek (e.g. newspaper or magazine articles, literary extracts in prose or 
                               poetry, internet materials) and to follow oral dialogue (e.g. in films), to demonstrate 
                               knowledge of Modern Greek grammar and translate from English into Greek at a basic level. 
                              They will have been introduced to a variety of aspects of modern Greek history, literature and 
                              culture, including the sociolinguistics of the Modern Greek language and the reception of the 
                              classical Greek tradition. They will have pursued in depth a topic of their choice in this area 
                              and demonstrated sufficient background knowledge to tackle the topic, an ability to use 
                              source materials in Modern Greek and an ability to reason coherently about linguistic, literary, 
                              cultural and/or historical issues. 
                               
           Course               
           Content:           See attached course outline. 
                               
                               
                               
                               
            
           Teaching &          3 classes per week. 
           Learning            
           Methods:            
                               
           Key                 See attached course outline. 
           Bibliography: 
            
            
            
            
            
           Formative           Weekly written and oral exercises (see course outline). 
           Assessment 
           & Feedback: 
            
                          
         Summative       Exam (50%) 2 hours. Passages for Greek-English translation, comprehension and grammar 
         Assessment:     questions, basic English-Greek translation. 
                          
                         Coursework   (25%) Best two of three in-course tests assessing progressive acquisition of 
                         language skills (which may include an oral component) 
                              (25%) Project: an essay of not more than 5,000 words on a topic in Modern Greek 
                         linguistics, literature, history or culture, applying linguistic knowledge to the use of original 
                         sources in Modern Greek. 
                          
                         Deadlines:       See programme 
                          
               The information contained in this course outline is correct at the time of publication, but may be subject to change as part of the Department’s 
                       policy of continuous improvement and development.  Every effort will be made to notify you of any such changes.