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Course: 2022/2023

Classics Culture
(13795)
Dual Bachelor in Journalism and Humanities Studies (2013 Study Plan) (Plan: 305 - Estudio: 282)


Coordinating teacher: BERMEJO TIRADO, JESUS

Department assigned to the subject: Humanities: History, Geography and Art Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course: 2º
Semester: 2º

Branch of knowledge: Arts and Humanities


Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
It is not necessary any previous knowledge.
Objectives
Overview of the Classical Graeco-Roman culture through the literary texts. Learning and practice of a Classical language. Introduction to the classical world and the disciplines related to its study, with particular emphasis on philological disciplines.
Skills and learning outcomes
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Description of contents: programme
Knowledge of historical and cultural context of Ancient Greek and Roman worlds through the analysis of literary texts and archaeology. Greek literature and Latin literatures through their texts and archaeology.
Learning activities and methodology
Analysis of texts and archaeological documents. Theory and practice (2 ECTS). Lectures on Classical Culture (2 ECTS). Practices (2 ECTS).
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40
Calendar of Continuous assessment
Basic Bibliography
  • . Homer, Odyssey. University of Michigan Press. 2002
  • . Aristotle, Politics. Hackett Publishing. 1998
  • . Euripides, Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, Helen, Iphigenia at Aulis. Routledge. 1999
  • . Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days, Testimonia. Loeb Classical Library. 2006
  • . Plato, The Symposium. Cambridge University Press. 2008
  • . Sophocles, The Theban Plays of Sophocles. The Yale New Classics Series. 2007

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.