General provisions

The course is given as a module in the Master's Programme in languages and as an independent course.

Entry requirements

Fulfilment of the requirements for a Bachelor's degree with Latin as the main field of study.

Learning outcomes

The course intends to provide advanced knowledge about the Latin prose from the last decades of the Roman republic and the first 200 years of the Empire (ca. 100 B.C.-ca. 200 A.D). After completed education, the student is expected to

- have a good knowledge of and be able to describe the creation of standards for prose literary language as well as the main features of the contemporary discussion on the subject;

- have a good knowledge of the major linguistic changes over the current 300 years;

- have a good knowledge of history of literature and be able to describe the prose literature, the conserved as well as the non-preserved, under the current 300 years;

- have a good knowledge of and be able to account for the studied authors' life and literary production in view of the contemporary historical and cultural development.

Content

Study of about 200 pages of text that is chosen in consultation with examiner. Of these should about 80 be constituted by a philosophic or rhetorical text and of a speech by Cicero, while the remaining about 120 the sides should be brought from e g Sallust, Tacitus, Seneca the Younger and Apuleius. The texts are studied from the point of view of language history as well as from the point of view of political and literary history.

Instruction

Teaching is given in case of resources. In other respects, the literature is read alone by means of commentaries.

Assessment

Examination takes place through an oral test at the end of the module. For students who have not passed in regular test, a re-examination session is organised within reasonable time after the first. Student who has failed certain test three times has the right to obtain either other examiner or other examination format.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.

Other directives

This course overlaps with the course 5LA804 Classical Roman prose and cannot be used in the same degree.