Part 1 Linguistics of the countries of the Modern Greek language

Course: «Modern Greek philology and translation and the English language»

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Part 1 Linguistics of the countries of the Modern Greek language
Code
ОК.03.01
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2
Learning outcomes
PLO 2. To work effectively with information: to select the necessary information from various sources, in particular from professional literature and electronic databases, to analyze critically, to interpret, to arrange, to classify and to systematize it. PLO 6. To use information and communication technologies for complex specialized tasks and problems of professional activity solving. PLO 7. To understand the main problems of philology and approaches for their solution with appropriate methods and innovative techniques used. PLO 9. To characterize dialectal and social varieties of classical and foreign languages, to describe the sociolinguistic situation. PLO 16. To know and to understand the basic concepts and categories of Сlassical Philology and the theoretical principles of General Linguistics, to be able to apply them in professional activities.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
To know the Modern Greek language at the A1 level; master the school program on world history; to know the peculiarities of the historical and cultural development of Europe.
Course content
The purpose of the discipline is to provide thorough professional training of future teachers and translators by introducing students to the countries of the Modern Greek language, to give them a general idea of their geographical features, history, political and social system, culture and literature, in particular, through the lens of language. The discipline consists of two substantive parts. In the first part, students get an idea of the subject of the course, the main concepts of linguistic and cultural studies. They find out the connection between language and culture. The main topic of the first part is the area where the Greeks lived and the vocabulary used to denote it: toponymy, anthroponymy, ethnonymy. In the second part, students get acquainted with the main periods of Greek history and the vocabulary characteristic of their description: onomastics (characters and events), historicisms. Also, students get acquainted with the socio-cultural realities of Greece and Cyprus and their reflection in the language
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
About Greece. Athens, 2001. Fiada, Alexandra The Xenophobe's Guide to the Greeks. Oval Books, 2000 Ελληνικός οργανισμός του τουρισμού, πρόγραμμα “Travel in Greece”. URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxSL-OpsDgAVar4IM2yc_YPZn6lgCsZ7V About Greece. Athens, 2001. Fiada, Alexandra The Xenophobe's Guide to the Greeks. Oval Books, 2000
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures and practical classes; video materials and presentations (Microsoft PowerPoint); independent work (writing essays, preparing reports).
Assessment methods and criteria
The semester number of points is formed by the points received by the student in the process of learning the material from the entire educational course. The overall grade for the semester consists of points received for classroom work (which synthesizes and independent work on processing theoretical material for classroom preparation: oral answers, control papers, tests) and for independent work (preparation of reports, presentations, etc.). All types of work for the semester have the following sum: in the maximum dimension - 100 points, in the minimum dimension - 60 points. Final assessment: credit. A detailed description of the forms, criteria and organization of assessment is given in the working program of the discipline, published on the official website of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Olesia Vasylivna Lazer-Pankiv
Department of General Linguistics, Classical Philology and Neo-Hellenistics
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology