Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE CLA1009

 
TITLE Latin Grammar and Syntax 1

 
UM LEVEL 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course

 
MQF LEVEL Not Applicable

 
ECTS CREDITS 8

 
DEPARTMENT Classics and Archaeology

 
DESCRIPTION Students here learn Latin Grammar, that is, the five declensions of nouns, the three declensions of adjectives, the personal, possessive, reflexive, demonstrative, emphatic, relative and interrogative pronouns, the four conjugations in both voices, deponent verbs, adverbs, numbers and the moods: indicative, imperative, participle, infinitive and subjunctive. Of the subjunctive mood, the student will learn the use of exhortation, wish for the future, prohibition and cum-clauses. The explanation of the grammar is illustrated by examples taken from the English language, while attention is given to word order and style, as well as the right use of the lexicon.

Study-unit Aims

This study-unit is intended to teach students the grammar and syntax of the Latin Language.

Learning Outcomes

1. Knowledge & Understanding:
By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

To identify all grammatical issues and simple syntactical ones within English sentences to be translated into Latin.

2. Skills:
By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

To translate into Latin ordinary sentences from English involving all grammar and simply syntax.

Main Text/s and any supplementary readings

Hillard and Botting (2012). Elementary Latin exercises. Duckworth.
Kennedy, B. H., (2010) The revised Latin primer. Longman.
Lewis and Short, (1980) A Latin dictionary. Oxford.
North and Hillard (2012). Latin Prose composition. Duckworth.

 
RULES/CONDITIONS In TAKING THIS UNIT YOU CANNOT TAKE CLA1001 OR TAKE CLA1003 OR TAKE CLA1109

 
ADDITIONAL NOTES Reassessment is 100% Examination (2 Hours).

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Lecture

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Classwork [See Add. Notes] Yes 50%
Homework [See Add. Notes] Yes 50%

 
LECTURER/S Horatio C. R. Vella

 

 
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