Course Details in 2024/25 Session

Module Title	LI Research Seminar A: Roman love elegy in the Age of Augustus
School	History and Cultures
Department	Classics, AH and Archaeology
Module Code	09 37068
Module Lead	Dr Elena Theodorakopoulos
Level	Intermediate Level
Credits	10
Semester	Semester 1
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites	LI Research Seminar B: Roman love elegy in the Age of Augustus - (09 37069)
Restrictions	None
Contact Hours	Seminar-20 hours Guided independent study-80 hours Total: 100 hours
Exclusions
Description	This module and its co-requisite (Research Seminar B: Roman love elegy in the Age of Augustus) will allow students to engage in research into a topic relating to a member of academic staff’s research expertise. Working under the guidance of the module co-ordinator, students will survey a well-defined body of primary literary, visual, historical or archaeological data. Students will work towards compiling a portfolio of work based on this material. This seminar module focuses on the Augustan elegists (Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, and Sulpicia). Themes discussed include sex and sexuality, relations between men and women and between men, Roman social mores and the social contexts of the poems, the politics of the Augustan age, the influence of Greek and Hellenistic culture on Roman poetry.
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module students should be able to: Formulate a research question; Identify relevant data/sources on the subject; Identify relevant secondary scholarship on the subject; Interpret topic specific primary texts, material culture etc for the subject.
Assessment	37068-01 : 2500 Word Essay : Coursework (100%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	Assessment: 2,500 word essay (including scholarship survey and formulation of research aims/questions and formulation of research methodology, including explanation of source material) (100%). Reassessment: Resubmission of failed element(s)
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