Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE CLA2019

 
TITLE Latin Grammar and Syntax 2

 
UM LEVEL 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course

 
MQF LEVEL Not Applicable

 
ECTS CREDITS 8

 
DEPARTMENT Classics and Archaeology

 
DESCRIPTION Students here consolidate their knowledge of Latin Grammar, pursue all the constructions of Syntax, clauses like indirect statement, command and question, relative with the subjunctive, verbs of fearing, gerund and gerundive, conditional, concessive, comparative, causal and temporal.

Study-unit Aims

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

Learning Outcomes

1. Knowledge & Understanding:

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to identify all grammatical and syntactical issues within English sentences to be translated into Latin.

2. Skills:

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to translate into Latin more advanced sentences from English involving all grammar and syntax.

Main Text/s and any supplementary readings

Kennedy, B. H.(2010). The Revised Latin primer. Cambridge University Press.
Lewis and Short (1963). A Latin dictionary. Oxford University Press.
North and Hillard (2012). Latin prose composition. Duckworth.

 
RULES/CONDITIONS Before TAKING THIS UNIT YOU MUST TAKE CLA1009

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

Pre-Requisite qualifications: Knowledge of Latin Grammar

 
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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