Learning objectives
Highlight the potential of information technology tools and warn students against using their exclusive and uncritical use. Students must be able to use text databases and bibliographical research tools, with a full awareness of the potential of such tools as well as of the risks deriving from their exclusive and uncritical use. Students must be able to translate literary latin texts and to read poetry in a correct way.
Prerequisites
- Have earned at least 10 credits in the scientific-disciplinary area of Latin (Latin language and literature, L-FIL-LET/04)
- Students must pass a second preliminary written entry exam, if they have already gained 18 credits in the same SDA (Latin language and literature, L-FIL-LET/04).
Course unit content
The aim of the course is to offer a critical review of the main resources available for the study of classical languages and literature. Text and bibliographical databases and their corresponding interrogation software programs will be examined. Time will also be dedicated to sitography relative to the study of Latin and Greek
Full programme
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Bibliography
Selected bibliography will be provided during the lessons.
The students have also to study Propedeutica al latino universitario, VI, VIII and to translate a book of Vergils Aeneid. and a prose book. Both texts will be agreed upon with the course professor.
Teaching methods
The course consists of lectures (reading, translation and commentary of the texts) and exercises on computer tools presented in class.
Assessment methods and criteria
The exam is oral (interrogation) and is divided into a series of questions of 5 types:
The verification on the different parts of the program with the aim of ascertaining:
- verification of reading skills (verification of the metric reading of any poems) and translation of the proposed Latin texts.
- verification of the knowledge of grammar and basic Latin syntax and of the assigned chapters of the "Propedeutica al latino universitario"
- verification of the ability to analyze and critically interpret the text, to reprocess the contents and to operate interdisciplinary links.
- verification of knowledge of textual databases and bibliographic research tools
- verification of expository skills and language.
The five types contribute in equal measure to the determination of the final grade (in thirtieths); sufficiency in each of them is indispensable.
The vote of the question will be communicated immediately to the student.
Other information
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