CAG2002 : Level 2 Greek: Special Study - Undergraduate Study

Offered for Year: 2025/26

Module Leader(s): Professor Athanassios Vergados

Owning School: History, Classics and Archaeology
Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus

Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Semester 2 Credit Value:	20
ECTS Credits:	10.0
European Credit Transfer System

Aims

This module aims:

1. To further develop and refine students' linguistic skills, as applied to reading and translating original literary texts in Greek;
2. To further develop students' skills in interpreting and analysing Greek literary texts.
3. To familiarise students with a range of resources (traditional and digital) employed in the advanced study of Greek literary texts.

Outline Of Syllabus

Students taking this module will work on selected literary texts in the original Greek, with a focus on further developing skills of interpretation and analysis. The texts studied will be determined on a yearly basis, taking into account the need to avoid overlap between a student's Stages 2 and 3.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities

Category	Activity	Number	Length	Student Hours	Comment
Guided Independent Study	Assessment preparation and completion	50	1:00	50:00	N/A
Structured Guided Learning	Academic skills activities	5	2:00	10:00	Discipline-specific skills activities
Guided Independent Study	Directed research and reading	83	1:00	83:00	Module reading and resource list; Wider self-identified resources
Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities	Small group teaching	33	1:00	33:00	Interactive language classes/seminars
Guided Independent Study	Skills practice	24	1:00	24:00	Grammar revision and consolidation; translation practice
Total	200:00

Jointly Taught With

Code	Title
CAG3002	Level 3 Greek: Special Study

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Synchronous small-group sessions are largely student-led, and provide the opportunity to collaboratively read, review and discuss the prescribed text(s), while further refining existing skills in:
- identifying and understanding a range of Greek linguistic and syntactical features;
- translating Greek into clear and fluent English;
- literary analysis.

Structured guided learning activities provide students with the opportunity to:
- acquire knowledge and understanding of broader themes, ideas and contexts (whether literary, historical, philosophical, socio-cultural);
- prepare for weekly synchronous sessions;
- further refine discipline-specific technical skills.

Guided independent study is intended as time for:
- skills practice;
- directed reading and research;
- preparing and completing any formative and summative assessments.

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Exams

Description	Length	Semester	When Set	Percentage	Comment
Written Examination	90	2	A	65	N/A

Exam Pairings

Module Code	Module Title	Semester	Comment
Level 3 Greek: Special Study	2	N/A

Other Assessment

Description	Semester	When Set	Percentage	Comment
Oral Presentation	2	M	35	in-class presentation, 15 minutes

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

Summative assessment is designed to assesses students' knowledge and interpretative understanding of the texts studied, with particular reference to the application of their linguistic knowledge, and their skills in presenting their views and analyses of key issues regarding the set text(s).
Exam is the best way of assessing language skills, especially the students' ability to translate and interpret texts in a controlled environment without access to a translation or other resources.
The oral presentation is conceived as a "feed-forward" summative assessment in line with the School-level guidance and assesses skills in interpretation, based on the text in the original, and oral communication skills.

Reading Lists

CAG2002's Reading List

Timetable

Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
CAG2002's Timetable

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