Exercises in historical issues, including an introduction to bibliography : Greek and Roman history 2

Duration

Partim : Cours : 15h Th, 30h Pr, 5d FT Tr. Pr.
Partim : Travail de fin de cycle :

Number of credits

Lecturer

Partim : Cours : Yann Berthelet
Partim : Travail de fin de cycle : Yann Berthelet

Coordinator

N...

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long, with partial in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The seminar will be devoted to learning research in ancient history:
- by example (exposition of ongoing research)
- by practice (bibliographical research and heuristic exercises, Latin or Ancient Greek translations, writing of the TFC).
The writing of the end-of-cycle work (TFC, also called TFB = end of Bac work) is an opportunity for the student to implement the theoretical knowledge, heuristic approach, critical skills and qualities acquired throughout the course of its training. You will therefore work independently in order to propose a contribution (30 p.) on a theme of history of the Greek or Roman antiquity of your choice.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
- to implement the basic philological reflexes (= to control Greek and Latin texts and their translations in modern scientific editions and to base his analyses not on translation, but on original Greek and Latin texts);
- to take into account in its analyses all types of sources, which implies to navigate independently not only in literary sources, but also in main epigraphic, numismatic, iconographic, archaeological and prosopographical corpus and publications related to Greek and Roman history.
The creation of a TFC must also lead the student to conduct a personal, original and rigorous search on the basis of a limited corpus of sources. The student will demonstrate that he has acquired the basic critical skills that are required of any historian. This undertaking will therefore in no way correspond to a compilation of existing modern works but will establish that the student is able to establish a critical presentation of the modern bibliography, to identify a question of research, to establish and/or to justify a corpus of sources allowing to respond to the question of research posed, to critically interrogate traces of the past and to communicate clearly and correctly - in a correct French language - the result of his research.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

To take this course, the student must:
- have taken the course of Exercices sur des questions d'histoire, y compris l'initiation bibliographique : histoire grecque et romaine de niveau I (implying the prerequisites of this course, in particular the mastery of the basic notions of classical Latin);
- have a very good oral and written mastery of the French language.
- to carry on his training in Latin and Ancient Greek.
To do so, he will have to choose, as part of the module Histoire de l'Antiquité (Block 3), a course (not otherwise followed) among: LCLA0065-1 : Langue grecque I LCLA0068-1 : Auteurs latins I LCLA0073-1 : Auteurs latins II (it is advisable to have followed and passed LCLA0018-1 ou LCLA0068-1 beforehand)
In the framework of the Mineure en Antiquité gréco-romaine (blocks 2 and 3), he can complete his training in ancient languages by choosing a course (not otherwise followed) among: LCLA0065-2 : Langue grecque I LCLA0066-2 : Langue latine I LCLA0070-2 : Langue grecque II (needs to have passed Langue grecque I) LCLA0071-3 : Langue latine II (needs to have passed Langue latine I)

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

The weekly seminar (A4 R10 : Monday, 09h-11h, during Q1 ; Wednesday, 9h-11h, during Q2) will alternate exercises of bibliographical research, heuristic and analysis of documents (including Latin and Ancient Greek) according to the rules of historical criticism.
Mandatory Latin or Ancient Greek translation exercises will be requested regularly.
Some sessions may be suspended in order to enable students to carry out the required exercises in a library.

Recommended or required readings

Bibliographical syllabus to download at the address : http://web.philo.ulg.ac.be/bibliohist/.
Course materials distributed or put online on Ecampus.

Assessment methods and criteria

January examination (10% of the final mark): evaluation of the written work showing the progress of the TFC, including the written account of a scientific article or part of work in connection with the TFC.
The examination organised in January, obligatory, will count for 10% of the overall score of the year in case of success (note greater than or equal to 10/20).
In case of failure in January (< 10/20), the May-June examination note (or, in case of failure in May-June, the August-September exam note) will be worth 100% of the final score.
The evaluation of May/June (and August/September in case of failure) will be based on:
- on the exercises requested throughout the year ;
-on the (re)translation of one of the texts in Latin or Ancient Greek translated during the year (oral examination);
- on the historical and critical analysis of a document or corpus of documents studied during the year (oral examination);
- on the TFC (70% of the final mark): you'll have to file your TFC at the end of May/early June (date to be agreed). On the occasion of the oral examination, you will present your work (question of research, corpus exploited, main results, prospects of future research ...). At the end of this presentation (5 minutes), you will hear my remarks and answer the questions you will be asked.

The TFC shall include at least the following elements:

• an introduction
• a critical presentation of the corpus of sources studied
• a presentation of the modern works on the topic
• a presentation of the question of research
• a personal analysis
• a conclusion
• a complete and recent bibliography.

• 30 p. (bibliography included)
• character 12
• space between the lines 1.5
• margins 2.5 cm
• The critical apparatus will be particularly neat and the standardized bibliographical references (cf. proposals here: http://web.philo.ulg.ac.be/bibliohist/references-bibliographiques/).
• The text will be written in a flawless French (orthography, conjugation, syntax, punctuation, etc.).

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Enseignant titulaire Pr. Dr. Yann Berthelet Chargé de cours. Université de Liège, Bât. A4 - Histoire de l'Antiquité gréco-romaine, Quai Roosevelt 1B, 4000 Liège - Belgique +32 4 3665606 Yann.Berthelet@uliege.be