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Syllabus 2022-23 - 12211005 - Greek Language 1 (Griego 1)

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  • Level 1: Tutorial support sessions, materials and exams in this language
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DEGREE: Grado en Estudios ingleses
FACULTY: FACULTY OF HUMAN SCIENCES AND EDUCATION
ACADEMIC YEAR: 2022-23
COURSE: Greek Language 1
SYLLABUS
1. COURSE BASIC INFORMATION
NAME: Greek Language 1
CODE: 12211005 ACADEMIC YEAR: 2022-23
LANGUAGE: English LEVEL: 1
ECTS CREDITS: 6.0 YEAR: 1 SEMESTER: PC
2. LECTURER BASIC INFORMATION
NAME: MIGUEL JOVER, JOSÉ LUIS DE
DEPARTMENT: U123 - LENGUAS Y CULTURAS MEDITERRÁNEAS
FIELD OF STUDY: 340 - FILOLOGÍA GRIEGA
OFFICE NO.: D2 - D2-204 E-MAIL: jjover@ujaen.es P: 953212122
WEBSITE: http://www10.ujaen.es/conocenos/departamentos/lycm
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8143-4887
LANGUAGE: - LEVEL: 1
3. CONTENT DESCRIPTION

1. The Ancient Greek Language and Attic Greek.  The Classical Greek as written and spoken language. The alive greek . Brief history of greek language: from Homer to  lingua franca called  Koiné (i.e. New Testament).  2. The Script: the Alphabet. Punctuation.  2.1. The System of Sounds. Their Written Representation. Classification of Sounds: vowels and Consonants. 2.2. Lectional Sounds: Accents. The Meanings of Accents: Pitch, not Stress. Words without Accent: Atona. Apostrophe. 3. Types of Words. 3.1. Inflected Words. Declension and Conjugation. 3.1. Declension of the Noun. The Cases. The Article. 3.2. The Adjective: Attributive and Predicative.3.3. The Pronoun. 3.4. Uninflected words: Adverbs. Pronominal Adverbs (interrogative). Particles. Interrogative, connective and negative Particles. Prepositions.3.5. The Greek Word-Order. 4. The O-Declension. 5. The O-Conjugation: Present Active, Indicative and Imperative. The Imperfect Active of Verbs in -o. The Augment. Conjugation of the Imperfect. The 'Secondary Endings". The Thematic Vowel. The "Primary Endings". 6. The A-Declension. 7. The Article and Demonstrative (Deictic) Pronoun.  8. The Verb.  8.1. Verb-Stem and Tense-Stem. Time and Aspect.  The Aorist: the 'Weack and Strong Aorist". The Perfect. Reduplication in the Perfect. 9. Uses of the Infinitive. Its Function.. 9.1. Reported Speech.  10. The Third Declension.  11. Verbs: The Subjunctive. Formation and General Meaning.  The Optative. Main Uses of the Optative.  Formamtion and Tenses of the Optative. 12. The Participle. The "Genitive Absolute". Strong Aorist Participles.  13. Passive and Middle. Medio-Passive. 14. Vowel-Stem Verbs. 14. Syntax. Uses of the Cases. 

4. COURSE DESCRIPTION AND TEACHING METHODOLOGY

To the good progress of the proposed course and its theoretical-practical subject, the student must demostrate a minimun level of mastery of the knowledge imparted, first through a written exercice on a text studied and commented in the practical class; second, linguistic analysis of a phrase indicated in text between the translated, and, third,  answer to three brief questions related to a relevant work of Greek Literature, for example, Homer, Xenophon, or the New Testament. 

 

In addition to interect in the course, a good attitude, involvment, mastery and ability to solve exercises will be valued.

Active participation in class will be importan for the final grade.

In Extraordinary Calls it will be guaranteed that the student can achieve the highest grade. 

Students with special educational needs should contact the Student Attention Service (Servicio de Atención y Ayudas al Estudiante) in order to receive the appropriate academic support

5. ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY

  1. The college student must learn to write the Greek Alphabet, especially the lowercase forms.
  2. The student must learn to recite the Greek Alphabet, to right pronunciation. 
  3. Also he must do the exercises proposed in class.  The exercises are designed to help the student punt into use the vocabulary, inflection, and grammatical rules learned so far. 
  4. He must learn the translation techniques of the Greek Texts. 

         For example:

         Give the requested form of the Greek noun and indicate its gender: 

       I.

       1. acc.sing. of friendship

        2. nom. pl.. of pleasure

        3. gen. sing. of education. 

        II.

        For each sentence or phrase (a) translate into English; (b) identify fully all adjective forms; (c) specify the use of the adjective (either attributive modifying which noun, or predicative modifying wihich noun, or used as a substantives).

           5. To render a proposed sentence into Greek.  

6. BOOKLIST
MAIN BOOKLIST:
  • Cambridge grammar of classical greek Evert van Emde Boas; Albert Rijksbaron; Luuk Huitink; Mathieu de Huitink. Edition: -. Author: Rijksbaron, Albert, autor. Publisher: Cambridge University Press  (Library)
ADDITIONAL BOOKLIST:
  • The Measures of Homer. The Ancient Receptions of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Edition: -. Author: Hunter, Richard. Publisher: Cambridge University Press  (Library)
  • Greek. A History of the Language and its Speakers. Edition: 2ª ed.. Author: Horrocks, G. . Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell  (Library)
  • Hellenistic and Biblical Greek. A Graduate Reader. Edition: -. Author: McLean, B.C.. Publisher: Cambridge University Press  (Library)
7. VIRTUAL / CLASSROOM TEACHING SCENARIO

  In a multimodal or mixed environment, we wil be mainly concerned with gradual, inclusive and participatory teaching development of student, enabling a higher level of engagement in the educational proceso through the use of various technological tools (classroom, videoconferecing via Meet, slideshows, etc.)..

 

8. VIRTUAL TEACHING SCENARIO

In a non-presential environment, the progress of the teaching of an ancient language such as Classical Greek requires the teacher to make an additional effort in order to achieve the competencies derived from remote learning. 

Since it is a basically practical subject, it requieres a certain skill in the use of modern technology applied to linguistic teaching (handling, translations, commentaries, specialized lexicons and dictionaries) to enable student to acquire basic literacy in ancient greek, perhaps in a more attractive and agreable way than the conventional grammar grind, so the teacher can to shed light on the modern languages europeans.

A cureful and brief survey from the Indueropeans antecedents to the history of ancient greek language  enable student to acquire basic literacy in Greek, perhaps in a more attractive and agreeable way than the conventional grammar grind..

The objective language in the XXI siecle was a contemporary form of spoken greek, because the people do not tend to speak as they write.

In a non-presential environmen, the progress of the teaching of an ancient language such as classical greel demands the teacher to make an additional effort in orden to achieve the competencies derived form remote learning.

Since it is a basically practical subject, requires a certain skill in the use of modern technology applied to teaching (handling, translations, commentaries, specialized lexicons and dictionaries. 

The target language in the XXI siecle was a contemporary form of spoken greek, because the people do not tend to speak as they write. 

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