Course: Latin I

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Course title Latin I
Course code KHI/BKH15
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 6
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Tomíček David, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
The teaching of the course in the combined form includes the following topics in individual teaching blocks: 1. Latin language, its development, characteristics, pronunciation and accent. 2. Substantives and adjectives of 1st - 2nd declension, verbs of 1st - 4th conjugation, indicative of the preposition, imperfect, futura, active forms. 3. Verbs of I.-IV. conjugation, indicative passive forms, deponent verbs, verb esse and its composition, nouns of III. declension. 4. Adjectives of the III. declension, participles of the preposition, ablative absolute, connection of the accusative with the infinitive, nouns of the IV. and V. declension. The students deal with the topics included in the compulsory literature and especially in the course outline, tasks assigned in the full-time part of the course or in the Moodle learning system, as well as on the basis of individual consultations with the teacher carried out in full-time, on-line (blue.ujep.cz) or by correspondence (e-mail).

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the importance of the Latin language for the humanities, important stages of its development and pronunciation rules. The course is further oriented towards the knowledge of vocabulary and the basic procedures of analyzing and translating Latin sentences. Attention is focused on verb identification, analysis of grammatical characteristics of verb forms, identification of basic syntactic pairs, identification of sentence members in the context of valency syntax and other developing sentence members, and recognition and translation of frequent syntactic links.
The student will be able to explain the importance of the Latin language for the humanities and characterize the main stages of its historical development. The student will be able to apply the rules of Latin pronunciation in reading and interpreting Latin texts. The student knows the basic Latin vocabulary used in medieval Latin texts and uses it to understand a translated text. The student is able to identify the verb form in a Latin sentence and analyze its selected grammatical categories. The student is able to identify the basic syntactic pair and distinguish the individual clause members. The student is able to recognize frequent syntactic links and apply basic procedures for analyzing and translating simple Latin sentences into English.
Prerequisites
None

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Written test.
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