General provisions

The course is a module within the scope of linguistic Master's degree (60 credits).

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

• be able to account for the most important features of the creation of literary norms for Latin prose and for the fundamental features of the contemporary discussion of this;
• be able to account for the literature in prose during these 300 the years;
• be able to account for the studied authors' life and literary production in view of the contemporary historical 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.

Other regulations

The course is included in the studies for second-cycle studies in Latin and is compulsory for Master's degree (60 credits). For in-depth subject study to Master' s degree (120 credits), further 112.5 credits been in addition required.