Intermediate Ancient Greek: Koine

Subject CLAS20015 (2010)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2010.

Credit Points: 12.50
Level: 2 (Undergraduate)
Dates & Locations:

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2010:

Semester 1, Parkville - Taught on campus.
Pre-teaching Period Start not applicable
Teaching Period not applicable
Assessment Period End not applicable
Last date to Self-Enrol not applicable
Census Date not applicable
Last date to Withdraw without fail not applicable


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Time Commitment: Contact Hours: 3 hours of lectures and 1-hour tutorial per week
Total Time Commitment: 8 hours per week; total time commitment 102 hours
Prerequisites: 670-203; 107-151; 670-357 Beginners Ancient Greek B or an approved equivalent.
Corequisites: None
Recommended Background Knowledge: None
Non Allowed Subjects: 670-103; 670-382; 131-426
Core Participation Requirements: For the purposes of considering requests for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this course are articulated in the Course Description, Course Objectives and Generic Skills of this entry.
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Coordinator

Dr James Chong-Gossard

Contact

K.O. Chong-Gossard

koc@unimelb.edu.au

Subject Overview:

In this subject students translate and discuss the interpretation of a selected work in Koine Greek (such as the Greek New Testament, apocryphal acts of the apostles, Polybius, or Plutarch). In tutorials, further work is undertaken on grammar and syntax which revises and consolidates the beginners course. Students will also undertake work in Ancient Greek literary and textual criticism. On completion of this subject students should have consolidated their skills in working with Ancient Greek texts and have discovered some of the many important contributions which reading original texts can make to understanding the ancient world.
Objectives:
  • have read a number of Ancient Greek texts in the original and consolidated their knowledge of grammar and syntax and extended their vocabulary.
  • have encountered texts in a variety of genres and styles.
Assessment: Weekly translations tests, equivalentto 750 words 10% (held each week throughout the semester), weekly tutorialexercises, equivalent to 1250 words 30% (due each week throughout thesemester), a 1-hour assessment test, equivalent to 1000 words 30% (held inthe middle of the semester), a 1-hour examination, equivalent to 1000words 30% (held during the examination period). Hurdle requirements: In order to be eligible for final assessment students must attend 75% of tutorials andcomplete the assessment test and examination.
Prescribed Texts:

A subject reader will be available.

Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary (OUP)
Recommended Texts:

J Morwood, Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek (OUP)
Breadth Options:

This subject potentially can be taken as a breadth subject component for the following courses:

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Generic Skills:
  • possess critical thinking skills.
  • be able to think in theoretic terms.
  • be familiar with the communication conventions of another culture.
Related Course(s): Diploma in Arts (Ancient Languages)
Related Majors/Minors/Specialisations: Classical Studies and Archaeology
Classical Studies and Archaeology
Classics

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