Content: Each class will focus on a small number of texts, one or two of which will be studied in detail on a photograph. The texts are chosen to illustrate...

Content: Each class will focus on a small number of texts, one or two of which will be studied in detail on a photograph. The texts are chosen to illustrate the development of Greek cursive scripts and bookhands; to examine formal aspects of the transmission of Greek literature on papyrus; and to give an idea of the range of documentary types available as sources for the history of Egypt from the age of the Ptolemies to late antiquity.

Skills: This module aims to introduce participants to the study of Greek papyri, documentary as well as literary, and to offer training in editing them.

Recommended preperatory reading:

E. G. Turner, Greek Papyri. An Introduction (Oxford 1980); R. S. Bagnall (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (New York/Oxford 2009).

Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 10 weekly lectures.

Content: This MA module is devoted to Athenian tragedy of the fifth century BCE. This year, we...

Module Content and Indicative Topics

The module aims to strengthen the individual student’s awareness of different strategies and methods for language...

Module Content and Indicative Topics

The module aims to strengthen the individual student’s awareness of different strategies and methods for language learning; be goal-oriented in the work with the language skills: speaking, understanding, writing and reading and with the basic elements pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar; enable the students to express themselves about everyday topics in speech and writing, to understand everyday conversations, and to read texts of a reasonable level of difficulty. Class work is communicative and task-oriented, encouraging students to be active participants, to take responsibility for their own learning and to see work outside class as an integrated part of classroom teaching.

Teaching Delivery

2x2-hour seminar per week, consisting of tutor-led discussions, communicative exercises and student presentations. Moodle to be used as a repository for reading materials as well as for preparatory assignments and forum discussions.

By the end of the module, you should be able to:

1. Understand and communicate in Danish at A2-B1 level (reading, writing, speaking and listening)

2. Understand processes involved in language acquisition

3. Use strategies for consolidating vocabulary and linguistic structures

4. Understand basic grammatical and syntactical rules in Danish

5. Pronounce Danish sounds that do not exist in English

Recommended Reading

In preparation for the module, we advise that you acquire the following core texts.

Grammar: It is recommended that students have their own copy of R Allan, P Holmes & T Lundskær-Nielsen, Danish. An Essential Grammar (Routledge 2011).
	Dictionaries: Dansk-engelsk ordbog & Engelsk-dansk ordbog (Gyldendal) or similar. Make sure that the dictionary gives you the gender of nouns.