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Program Requirements

The program consists of 144 units selected to complete a full major in a Classical language (42 units), and a minimum of 96 units from the Faculty of Arts and 96 units from later year level. A maximum of 48 units of first year courses offered at 1000 level may be included:

The degree consists of:

a) A language major selected from one of the following classical languages: Ancient Greek or Latin (42 units).

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b) 12 units (minimum) of compulsory Linguistics courses. This includes the compulsory course LING1001 - Introduction to the Study of Language and at least one other course(s) selected from List A.

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c) An additional compulsory component in classical languages (a minimum of 30 units from List B). This typically consists of:

1. a minimum of 18 units of courses in the other classical language not chosen as the language major (Ancient Greek for Latin majors or viceversa), CLAS1001/2011 must be completed if not used in the language major; and/or
2. with the approval of the Classics major Convenor a student may undertake CLAS and ANCH courses in the Classics major where the student uses a significant amount of material in the classical languages in the course assignments; and/or
3. extra courses in the language of the language major.  Students who would like to choose another ('non-classical)' language for this component (e.g. German or Sanskrit) must seek the permission of the Bachelor of Languages (Classics) convener.

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d) 12 units (minimum) of compulsory courses studying the culture(s) of Rome or Ancient Greece (List C).

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e) Free choice to bring the program total to 144 units (a maximum of 48 units).

Students may complete an additional elective major in any of the majors offered by the university using the free choice courses. The electives may also be used to complete further List A, B or C courses. If students want to complete the additional elective major, they are advised to plan their degree with the College of Arts & Social Sciences Student Advisor as early as possible.

 

List A

 

Compulsory course:

LING1001 - Introduction to the Study of Language

Elective Courses:

LING1002 - Language and Society
LING1010 - Phonetics: Sounds of the World's Languages
LING1020 - Structure of English
LING1021 - Cross-Cultural Communication

LING2002 - Language and Society (L)

LING2005 - Language Change
LING2003 - Introduction to Syntax

LING2007 - Morphology
LING2008 - Semantics
LING2009 - Field Methods

LING2010 - Phonetics: Sounds of the World's Languages (L)
LING2013 - Teaching Languages

LING2015 - Language and Culture
LING2018 - Languages in Contact
LING2019 - Phonological Analysis

LING2020 - Structure of English (L)
LING2021 - Cross Cultural Communication (L)

LING2022 - Language Planning and Language Politics
LING2023 - Dictionaries and Dictionary-Making

LING2026 - Syntactic Theory

LING2101 - Second Language Acquisition
LING2104 - The History of the English Language

LING3005 - Acoustics of Voice
LING3008 - Study of A Language Family
LING3009 - Research Design in (Applied) Linguistics

LING3011 - Conversation Analysis
LING3021 - Child Language Acquisition

LING3022 - Seminar on Semantics

LING3025 - Special Topics in Linguistics

 

List B

 

B.1. CLAS1001/2011 must be completed if not used in the language major; and/or any GREK or LATN courses as listed below:

GREK2101 - Intermediate Ancient Greek
GREK2102 - Advanced Ancient Greek A
GREK2103 - Advanced Ancient Greek B
GREK2104 - Advanced Ancient Greek C
GREK2105 - Advanced Ancient Greek D
GREK2106 - Advanced Ancient Greek E
GREK2107 - Advanced Ancient Greek F
GREK2108 - Advanced ancient Greek G
GREK2109 - Advanced Ancient Greek H
GREK2110 - Advanced Ancient Greek I
GREK2111 - Advanced Ancient Greek J
GREK2112 - Advanced Ancient Greek K
GREK2113 - Advanced Ancient Greek L
GREK2114 - Advanced Ancient Greek M
GREK2115 - Advanced Ancient Greek N
GREK2116 - Advanced Ancient Greek O
GREK2117 - Advanced Ancient Greek P - Reading course
GREK2118 - Advanced Ancient Greek Q - Reading Course
GREK2119 - Continuing Ancient Greek (L)
LATN2101 - Intermediate Latin
LATN2102 - Advanced Latin A
LATN2103 - Advanced Latin B
LATN2104 - Advanced Latin C
LATN2105 - Advanced Latin D
LATN2106 - Advanced Latin E
LATN2107 - Advanced Latin F
LATN2108 - Advanced Latin G
LATN2109 - Advanced Latin H
LATN2110 - Advanced Latin I
LATN2111 - Advanced Latin J
LATN2112 - Advanced Latin K
LATN2113 - Advanced Latin L
LATN2114 - Advanced Latin M
LATN2115 - Advanced Latin N
LATN2116 - Advanced Latin O
LATN2117 - Advanced Latin P - Reading Course
LATN2118 - Advanced Latin Q - Reading Course
LATN2119 - Continuing Latin (L)

 

B.2. Any GREK or LATN courses as listed above in B.1. To include courses in this component, students (with the approval of the Classics major Convenor) must use a significant amount of material in the classical languages in their assignments.

B.3. Further language courses in the language of the language major i.e. either GREK or LATN courses as listed above in B.1.

 

List C

 

ANCH1013 - 5th Century Athens:an Imperialistic Democracy?
HIST1019 - Rome: Republic to Empire

ANCH2009 - Artefacts and Society in the Greco-Roman World
ANCH2014 - Homer and the Trojan War
ANCH2015 - Travellers and Geographers in Antiquity
CLAS2012 - The Hero in Classical Literature: Identity, Gender and Self-Definition in Ancient Poetry
HIST2216 - Religion and Society in the Roman Empire
HIST2218 - The City in the Roman Empire
ARCH2002 - Britain before the Romans - from Stonehenge to the Celts
ARCH2037 - Post-Roman Archaeology of Britain: Arthur and the Anglo Saxons
ARCH2056 - Britons and Romans: Archaeology of the Western Roman Empire
ARTH2015 - Byzantine Empire
ARTH2053 - Greek Art and Architecture
ARTH2054 - Roman Art and Architecture