Latin: Specialisation with Bachelor's Thesis

Undergraduate course

Course description

Objectives and Content

The course gives increasingly advanced knowledge in a limited area within Latin language and literature. This may be an area that has been part of the study at an earlier level (e.g., Roman poetry, historiography or rhetoric), a new historical period (e.g. Late Antiquity or the Renaissance), or a special field of study such as epigraphy or palaeography.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

The candidate has

  • increased knowledge of Latin grammar and literary history through analysis of the texts read
  • increased knowledge of the characteristic traits of the literature and culture that the study addresses

Skills

The candidate can

  • develop, delimit and formulate problems to assess within a given thematic survey the research literature and sources that are relevant for the problem analyse research literature and primary sources and draw her own conclusions on the basis of this.

General competence

The candidate can

  • acquaint herself with a comprehensive amount of specialist literature mediate knowledge from such literature develop and execute an independent written essay of moderate length and argue in support of the conclusions presented therein

ECTS Credits

15

Level of Study

Bachelor

Semester of Instruction

Autumn and spring

Place of Instruction

Bergen
Required Previous Knowledge
At least one of the courses: LAT100, LAT102, LAT104, LAT105, LAT107
Recommended Previous Knowledge
We recommend that students have passed examination in at least 3 of the Latin courses on the 100-level.
Credit Reduction due to Course Overlap
LAT254 overlaps with LAT204 (15 ECTS).
Access to the Course
The course is open to everyone with study right at the University of Bergen.
Teaching and learning methods

Teaching is given in the form of individual supervision, lectures on parts of the curriculum, and and practical rehearsal in use of language through oral translation from Latin to Norwegian or English.

26 hours (one double lecture a week).

If less than five students register to a course, the Department may introduce reduced teaching; cf. the relevant guidelines on Mitt UiB (Canvas). On courses where reduced teaching may be given, the students will receive information at the start of the semester, before the 1. Feb. / 1. Sept. deadline for registering

Compulsory Assignments and Attendance

Oral presentation of subject and method in one of the seminars.

Compulsory supervision during the writing of a Bachelor's thesis.

The mandatory activities are valid in the teaching semester.

Forms of Assessment

Bachelor’s thesis of ca. 15 pp. with compulsory supervision. In addition, an oral examination.

The oral examination, given after the grading of the bachelor’s thesis, have a moderating function and may adjust the character to the maximal extent of one degree up or down.

The thesis can be submitted in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.

Grading Scale
The grading scale used is A to F.
Assessment Semester
Autumn and spring.
Reading List
The course literature consists partly in Latin texts and translations, partly in secondary literature. The volume and scope are dependent on the level of difficulty, the relative amount of original texts, translations and secondary literature, and the choice of thematic
Course Evaluation
Students evaluate the course in accordance with the quality assurance system at UiB and the Department.
Examination Support Material
Not relevant.
Programme Committee
The programme board of Classical Philology
Course Coordinator
Faculty representatives from Classical Philology
Course Administrator
Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies