LATN4011 - Latin Honours A

Semester 1, 2011  |  Credit Points: 12

Coordinator: Eleanor Cowan
Phone: +61 2 9351 2998
Email: eleanor.cowan@sydney.edu.au

Description

The Honours program in Latin consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. two seminars that meet weekly for three hours for one semester
3. one unseen exam on a Latin text.

The thesis should be of 15,000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6,000 words of written work or it equivalent.

The thesis is worth 45% of the final Honours mark, each of the seminars is worth 22.5% and the unseen exam is worth 10%.

The followng seminars are on offer in 2011:

Latin Imperial Poetry (Assoc Prof Lindsay Watson)
Latin Republican Prose (Dr Robert Cowan)

For more information, contact Dr Alastair Blanshard, Honours coordinator.

Assessments

a thesis of 15,000 words, 6,000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar and one exam

Classes

two seminars, each seminar meeting for 3 hours per week for one semester

Prerequisites

Credit average in 42 senior credit points of Latin including two of LATN3603, 3604, 3605, 3606 plus 6 additional senior credit points of Greek, Latin or Ancient History.

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