Postgraduate Course: Elementary Greek (PG) 1 (PGHC11088)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology | 
College | College of Humanities and Social Science | 
 
| Course type | Standard | 
Availability | Available to all students | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) | 
Credits | 20 | 
 
| Home subject area | Postgraduate (School of History and Classics) | 
Other subject area | None | 
   
| Course website | 
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Taught in Gaelic? | No | 
 
| Course description | An introduction to the Greek language for complete beginners and those with limited recent experience of the language.  A thorough grounding is provided in the essentials of Greek accidence (nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs) and in the syntax of the simple sentence.  From week 4 post-graduates also have a weekly class to read selected texts, classical and/or medieval as appropriate. | 
 
 
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites | 
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Other requirements |  None | 
 
| Additional Costs |  None | 
 
 
Information for Visiting Students 
| Pre-requisites | None | 
 
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13  Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1) 
  
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Learn enabled:  No | 
Quota:  None | 
 
	
		| Location | 
		Activity | 
		Description | 
		Weeks | 
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		Tuesday | 
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| Central | Seminar |  | 1-11 |  11:10 - 12:00 |  |  |  |  |  | Central | Seminar |  | 1-11 |  |  11:10 - 12:00 |  |  |  |  | Central | Seminar |  | 1-11 |  |  |  11:10 - 12:00 |  |  |  | Central | Seminar |  | 1-11 |  |  |  |  11:10 - 12:00 |  |  
| First Class | 
First class information not currently available |  
| No Exam Information | 
 
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes 
By the end of the course students should:- 
- have mastered the accidence of the Greek language; 
- have an understanding of the basics of Greek syntax (simple sentences); 
- be able to translate straightforward Greek sentences with the help of a dictionary. | 
 
 
Assessment Information 
| Assessment is by an end of semester class test on passages read during the semester (translation and questions on points of language). |  
 
Special Arrangements 
| None |   
 
Additional Information 
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Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Stephanie Winder 
Tel: (0131 6)50 3583 
Email: Stephanie.Winder@ed.ac.uk | 
Course secretary | Ms Rosie Edwards 
Tel: (0131 6)50 3782 
Email: Rosie.Edwards@ed.ac.uk | 
   
 
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