Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 20 bi-weekly lectures and 30 tri-weekly PGTA-led seminars. 

Content: An introduction to the classical Latin...

Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 20 bi-weekly lectures and 30 tri-weekly PGTA-led seminars. 

Content: An introduction to the classical Latin language, including the study of grammar, principles of sentence construction and the reading of selected texts. The module aims to provide students with a knowledge of classical Latin language and principles of sentence construction sufficient to translate simple passages of Latin prose into English and simple English phrases and sentences into Latin. Two classes per week will be split into three small groups, each group taught by a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant.

Skills: Students should be trained in translating Latin texts into English and English sentences into Latin, learning vocabulary and studying Latin grammar and syntax. By the end of the course, students are expected to have reached a level approximately equivalent to the end of chapter 74 of Learn to Read Latin Book.

Module text: Keller, A. & Russell, S., 2015 (NB this is the second edition). Learn to Read Latin (Sections 40 to 74). Yale UP.

Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 20 bi-weekly lectures and 30 tri-weekly PGTA-led seminars. 

Content: An introduction to the ancient Greek...

Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 20 bi-weekly lectures and 30 tri-weekly PGTA-led seminars. 

Content: An introduction to the ancient Greek language, following on from Greek for Beginners A, and including the study of grammar, principles of sentence construction and the reading of selected texts. The module aims to provide students with a knowledge of Classical Greek language and principles of sentence construction sufficient to translate simple passages of Greek prose into English and simple English sentences into Greek. Two classes per week will be split into small groups, each group taught by a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant.

Skills: Students should be trained in translating Greek texts into English and English sentences into Greek, learning vocabulary and studying Greek grammar and syntax. By the end of the module students are expected to have reached a level approximately equivalent to the end of chapter 20 of Athenaze Book 2. 

Module text: Reading Greek: Grammar and Exercises (2nd Edition: Cambridge/JACT 2007), Reading Greek: Text and Vocabulary (2nd Edition: Cambridge/JACT 2007)