Modern Greek

• Modern Greek degrees offer comprehensive study of the language, literature, and culture from the medieval period to the present, focusing on skills like communication, literary analysis, and history.

• Modern Greek is offered by the Modern Greek department, which forms part of the University’s Faculty of Modern Languages. The formal teaching of Modern Greek language and culture began in 1936 and continues (interrupted only by World War II) to this day. We offer papers at undergraduate level that introduce our students to the rich and varied aspects of modern Greek culture and language. We are extremely supportive, and we make every effort to help students get the best from our courses.

• Modern Greek degrees offer comprehensive study of the language, literature, and culture from the medieval period to the present, focusing on skills like communication, literary analysis, and history.

• Modern Greek is offered by the Modern Greek department, which forms part of the University’s Faculty of Modern Languages. The formal teaching of Modern Greek language and culture began in 1936 and continues (interrupted only by World War II) to this day. We offer papers at undergraduate level that introduce our students to the rich and varied aspects of modern Greek culture and language. We are extremely supportive, and we make every effort to help students get the best from our courses.

• Modern Greek degrees offer comprehensive study of the language, literature, and culture from the medieval period to the present, focusing on skills like communication, literary analysis, and history.

• Modern Greek is offered by the Modern Greek department, which forms part of the University’s Faculty of Modern Languages. The formal teaching of Modern Greek language and culture began in 1936 and continues (interrupted only by World War II) to this day. We offer papers at undergraduate level that introduce our students to the rich and varied aspects of modern Greek culture and language. We are extremely supportive, and we make every effort to help students get the best from our courses.

• Modern Greek degrees offer comprehensive study of the language, literature, and culture from the medieval period to the present, focusing on skills like communication, literary analysis, and history.

• Modern Greek is offered by the Modern Greek department, which forms part of the University’s Faculty of Modern Languages. The formal teaching of Modern Greek language and culture began in 1936 and continues (interrupted only by World War II) to this day. We offer papers at undergraduate level that introduce our students to the rich and varied aspects of modern Greek culture and language. We are extremely supportive, and we make every effort to help students get the best from our courses.

• Modern Greek degrees offer comprehensive study of the language, literature, and culture from the medieval period to the present, focusing on skills like communication, literary analysis, and history.

• Modern Greek is offered by the Modern Greek department, which forms part of the University’s Faculty of Modern Languages. The formal teaching of Modern Greek language and culture began in 1936 and continues (interrupted only by World War II) to this day. We offer papers at undergraduate level that introduce our students to the rich and varied aspects of modern Greek culture and language. We are extremely supportive, and we make every effort to help students get the best from our courses.

• Modern Greek degrees offer comprehensive study of the language, literature, and culture from the medieval period to the present, focusing on skills like communication, literary analysis, and history.

• Modern Greek is offered by the Modern Greek department, which forms part of the University’s Faculty of Modern Languages. The formal teaching of Modern Greek language and culture began in 1936 and continues (interrupted only by World War II) to this day.

By the end of the course you will
• be able to understand authentic speech with ease and communicate confidently on a variety of subjects using a wide range of vocabulary and complex grammatical structures
• be able to read extracts from authentic literature with almost 100% understanding
• be able to write a number of complex texts in different registers with high degree of accuracy, employing a wide range of structures and vocabulary
• have further developed intercultural competence and be conversant with a variety of issues in Greekspeaking countries
In the sub-faculty of Byzantine and Modern Greek, your timetable will balance practical language training with classes and tutorials on Modern Greek literature, as well as with classes and lectures on the history and culture of Greece. Language will be taught in small-group classes (or one-on-one for students with no prior knowledge of Modern Greek). The literature syllabus will provide you with a broad introduction to nineteenth and twentieth-century Greek poetry, prose works and other cultural texts (from the stories of Papadiamantis and Vizyenos, to the poetry of Seferis, Ritsos, Cavafy and Angelaki-Rooke, and from Costas Taktsis’s The Third Wedding to Theo Angelopoulos’s film The Travelling Players). This choice of literary and cultural texts will equip you with a range of analytical skills to approach genre, form and context.

Along with the continued study of language, the second year in Modern Greek offers the opportunity to work on a range of literary and cultural movements (Romanticism, Demoticism, Modernism, Surrealism etc.) and to focus on specific areas of interest upon consultation with their tutor (including Medieval and Early Modern Greek language and literature, historical linguistics, translation theory, the work of individual authors, literary adaptations in Greek cinema, and gender and/in literature).

In your final year, you will have the option to focus on a choice of Medieval and/or Renaissance texts, and/or on two Modern writers, and/or a Special Subject from a long list of options divided by theme (ranging from the Greek novel and advanced Modern Greek translation, to popular culture in twentieth-century Greece).

Students need to achieve an overall module mark of 40% to pass
Assessments with numerical marks

• where the piece of work is submitted after the original deadline (or an agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment indicated in your Individual Learning Plan): 10% of the total marks available for that piece of work will be deducted from the mark for each calendar day (or part thereof) following the deadline up to a total of three calendar days;

• where the piece of work is submitted up to three calendar days after the original deadline (or a agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment indicated in you Individual Learning Plan), the mark awarded due to the imposition of the penalty shall not fall below the threshold pass mark, namely 40% in the case of modules at Levels 4-6 (i.e. undergraduate modules for Parts 1-3) and 50% in the case of Level 7 modules offered as part of an Integrated Masters or taught postgraduate degree programme;

• where the piece of work is awarded a mark below the threshold pass mark prior to any penalty being imposed, and is submitted up to three calendar days after the original deadline (or a DAS-agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment indicated in your Individual Learning Plan), no penalty shall be imposed;

• where the piece of work is submitted more than three calendar days after the original deadline (or a DAS-agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment indicated in your Individual Learning Plan): a mark of zero will be recorded.

Assessments marked Pass/Fail

• where the piece of work is submitted within three calendar days of the deadline (or a-agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment indicated in your Individual Learning Plan): no penalty will be applied;

• where the piece of work is submitted more than three calendar days after the original deadline (or a DAS-agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment indicated in your Individual Learning Plan): a grade of Fail will be awarded.

Where a piece of work is submitted late after a deadline which has been revised owing to an extension granted through the Assessment Adjustments policy and process (self-certified or otherwise), it will be subject to the maximum penalty (i.e., considered to be more than three calendar days late). This will also apply when such an extension is used in conjunction with a DAS-agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment.

You are strongly advised to ensure that coursework is submitted by the relevant deadline. You should note that it is advisable to submit work in an unfinished state rather than to fail to submit any work.

Formative assessment

Formative assessment is any task or activity which creates feedback (or feedforward) for you about your learning, but which does not contribute towards your overall module mark.

In order to consolidate and develop their language learning, students are encouraged to complete regular tasks – in class and outside – on which on-going feedback is provided. Additional feedback, with opportunity for self-reflection and feedforward is provided in week 11 of semester 1, through tests and other tasks to be included in the Portfolio/project.

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