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Study programmes 2010-2011Last update : 11/04/2011
LCLA0012-1  Readings in Latin authors
Duration :  30h Th
Credits/ECTS :  
Bachelor in French and Romance Languages and Literatures, 3rd yearSecond semester3
Holder(s) :  Gérald Purnelle
Language :  French language
Course contents :  The course is devoted to the study either of a sub-genre in the poetic genre or of a given literary work (the readings of other Latin texts being not excluded to enrich the commentary). In collaboration with the students, the teacher elaborates an original translation for each of the studied texts as well as a commentary pointing out the most remarkable aspects of the text. The commentary will aim at internal and comparative textual analysis of the extracts or poems. Il will also aim on study of the contribution of the Latin work at the French poetry, or of their relations. The reading of texts also involves the study of the most significant phenomena in the domains of the phonetics, the morphology, the lexicon and the syntax.
Course objective :  A practice in the translation and in the grammatical, historic, cultural, stylistic and literary commentary of Latin authors, as well as a review of the Latin language structures.
Prerequisites :  Bac 2 Readings in Latin authors course
Organization :  Duration : 30h th.
2d quadrimester
See http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires

Learning methods : lectures and practice.
Written notes :  Notes supplied by the teacher and critical editions of the texts.
Assessment :  Oral examination at the end of the year : reading, translation and commentary of a text red during the course and of a text prepared at home (for this second text, the student will prepare also an introduction to the text). Will be marked the ability of the student : 1. to translate and justify grammatically his translation; 2. to refer to the bibliography; 3. to use personally the methods and the techniques he learned during the course.
Contacts :  G. Purnelle, CIPL, 04 366 55 07
Gerald.Purnelle@ulg.ac.be


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