LNW2321 (7297): Introduction to Vergil

Monday-Wednesday-Friday 3th period
Turlington 2342

Instructor: Eleni Bozia
Office: Dauer 137
Phone: 352 392 2075 ext 272
E-mail: bozia@ufl.edu
Web-page: http://plaza.ufl.edu/bozia

Office Hours: Monday 7th period and Friday 5th and 7th period, or by appointment.



Textbooks: Pharr, C. Vergil's Aeneid Books I-VI (Bolchazy-Carducci, 1997) Required
R.F. Thomas, Vergil, The Georgics v.II (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 1988) Required
W.S.Anderson and L.N. Quartarone, Approaches to Teaching Vergil's Aeneid (Modern Language Association of America, 2002) Optional
Gildersleeve, B.L. and Lodge, G. Gildersleeve's Latin grammar (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1997) optional

Secondary Bibliography: For the secondary bibliography to be consulted for this course, please click here.LINK

Course Objectives:
Students will translate and discuss selections from Vergil's Aeneis and the Georgics in order to improve their Latin reading skills and also their understanding of Latin literature of this period. Also, some secondary scholarship will be consulted to gain an overview of the Roman literary tradition and the historical background in which Vergil was nurtured, and also to become familiar with contemporary debates about his work. Other topics will include meter, rhetorical devices, and mythology. Students will also review Latin grammar and syntax.

Activities: During our sessions, we will be going through the assigned for the day text. You will be responsible to have it translated before you come to class. We will be going over your homework together, answering questions on grammar, syntax, or anything else regarding the assignment. We will also be discussing other aspects of the poem, such as meter, literary techniques in general, and your opinions on the text itself. Once a week one of you will have to make a short (2 paragraph) presentation in class on an aspect of the text we will be covering at the time. You may choose your area of interest for that assignment. You will also have weekly quizzes on the discussed material.

Course Requirements:

• Daily preparation of the assigned material is required and necessary. This will also help you succeed in your quizzes, texts, and exams.
• Weekly quizzes on the material of the previous sessions.
• Three exams. There is no final exam.

Late work/makeup work will not be accepted, unless appropriate documentation is provided.

Departmental Policy on Absences: Learning any foreign language requires constant practice. If you fall behind, you will never be able to fill your gaps. Unexcused absences of any kind are not allowed and you will not be allowed to make up work that you missed during any unexcused absence. Specifically three unexcused absences may lower your daily grade enough to drop your final grade by one letter grade.

Student Honor Code: All students are responsible for knowing and obeying the student honor code, which can be found in the UF undergraduate catalog on-line. Here are a few excerpts:
Cheating: The improper taking or tendering of any information or material which shall be used to determine academic credit. Taking of information includes, but is not limited to, copying graded homework assignments from another studetns; working together with another individual on a take-home test or homework when not specifically permitted by the teacher, ... Tendering of information includes, but is not limited to, giving your work to another student to be used or copied ...
Plagiarism: The attempt to represent the work of another as the product of one's own thought, whether the work is published or unpublished, or simply the work of a fellow student. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to, quoting oral or written materials without citation on an exam, term paper, homework, ...
Misrepresentation: Any act or omission with intent to deceive a teacher for academic advantage ... (this includes downloading homework, papers, or any assignment from the internet and representing it as your own work).

Sanctions: If you are found cheating in this course, you will be reported to the honor council. Your instructor considers cheating in any form to be a fundamental violation of education and will request that the honor council apply the maximum penalty for the offence. If you are found guilty, sanctions may include one or more of the following: Reprimand, Conduct probation, Suspension, Expulsion, Reduced or failing grade, Community service, Educational seminar or paper.

Grades:
Participation 20%
Homework 10%
Individual Presentation 5%
Quizzes 20%
3 Exams 45% (15% each)

Grading Scale:
100-90 A
89-80 B
79-70 C
69-60 D
59-0 F

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