Multi-semester discipline: Latin hermeneutics (5th semester)

Course: Classical Philology and English language

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Multi-semester discipline: Latin hermeneutics (5th semester)
Code
ННД.19
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
5 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Learning outcomes
PLO 11. Know the principles, technologies and techniques of oral and written texts of different genres and styles creation in Ukrainian, classical and a foreign language. PLO 12. Analyze language units, determine their interaction, and characterize linguistic phenomena and the underlying processes. PLO 13. Analyze and interpret works of the Ancient literature, determine their peculiarities and place in the literary process. PLO 15. Perform linguistic, literary and specific philological analysis of texts of different styles and genres in Ancient Greek and Latin. PLO 21. Possess the skills to translate texts of different styles and genres in Ancient Greek and Latin.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
To know general information about the historical and cultural context of the Republic period in ancient Rome; to gain the basics of Latin grammar, in particular the syntax of a complex sentence, basic skills and translation skills, methods of linguistic and cultural analysis and grammatical analysis of original Latin texts.
Course content
The purpose of the course "Latin Hermeneutics" is to provide students with knowledge of hermeneutics as an art of text interpretation, a universal science of understanding, a comprehensive research method, its ideas and principles, to form a methodological toolkit of hermeneutic analysis (reading, interpretation, translation skills) of Latin texts. Abstract. The lecture-practical course consists of two substantive parts. The first part is dedicated to the history and theory of hermeneutics, its connections with rhetoric, grammar and logic, various forms of the text as an object of research, contains a complex hermeneutic analysis of the first book "Notes on the Gallic War" by H.Yu. Caesar.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Балух В.О. Історія античної цивілізації у 3 тт. : підр. для студ. вищ. навч. закл. / В.О. Балух. - Чернівці: Наші книги, 2008. – Т. 2: Стародавній Рим. – 847 с. Богачов А. Л. Філософська герменевтика. Навчальний посібник. – К.: Видавництво “Курс”, 2006. – 406 с. Цезар Г.Ю. Записки про галльську війну. Книга перша. Вступна стаття та загальна редакція А.О. Білецького. – К.: ВПЦ «Київський університет», 2015. – 142 с.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, practical classes; video materials and presentations (Microsoft PowerPoint); independent work (preparation of materials on a given topic, presentations, control papers).
Assessment methods and criteria
The semester number of points is formed by the points received by the student for systematic work during the semester, and provides for the assimilation of material from all topics of the content module and the performance of independent and control work taking into account the final work. The credit is given based on the results of the student's work and does not include additional assessment measures. Students who scored the minimum positive number of points - 60, receive "enrolled". Students who did not score the minimum positive number of points - 60, receive "failed". A detailed description of the forms, criteria and organization of assessment is given in the working course program, 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

Olena Hryhorivna Mykhailova
Department of General Linguistics, Classical Philology and Neo-Hellenistics
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology