Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
SYNTAX LAT215 3. Semester 2 + 0 2.0 2.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery lecture and exercise
Course Coordinator
Instructors Fatma Gül ÖZAKTÜRK
Assistants
Goals The purpose of this course is to improve the students’ knowledge of cases so that they can read and understand the set Latin texts better and can make speed in reading.
Course Content Uses of the cases
Learning Outcomes 1) Contribution to students’ learning the Latin Language by way of comparison with Turkish and a language originated from Latin
2) Contribution to improving studens’knowledge of Latin and their ability to translate Latin texts into Turkish
3) Contribution to improving students’ knowledge of vocabulary and ethymology of Latin words and furnishing the students with the basic knowledge to learn an European language originated from Latin or improve their knowledge of such a language if they have already started to learn
4) Contribution to students’ knowledge and discernment of Greco-Latin literature and its continuation in the literary tradition of Europe
5) Contribution to students’ knowledge of Roman civilization and their ability to see its importance as the origin of the European civilization
6) Cotibution to students’ discernment of Greko- Roman humanistic mentality and its importance as a sourse of common European culture
7) Contribution to students’ knowledge and discernment of Roman political and social history and ability to compare reoccurring conditions, events and personalities in history
8) Contribution to students’ gaining the ability to do independent and objecting reserch with a critical eye

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Importance of the subjects and aims of the course are explained, a short history of the use of cases in ancient languages. Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Homework
2. Week Nominative and Vocative Cases; Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Homework
3. Week Accusative Case: Use of it as direct object with various transitive verbs; intransitive verbs which became transitive when compounded with certain prepositions; verbs which take double Acc. and factitive verbs; their use in passive sentences as the acc.of thing; Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Homework
4. Week Acc.of time lenght, spice and distance; Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Homework
5. Week Acc.cognatus; adverbial Acc.; Acc.graecus; Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Homework
6. Week Dative Case: its use as indirect object with taransitive verbs; the verbs, adjectives, nouns and adverbs that take dative case; verbs which do not take neither Acc. nor Dat., when compounded with certain prepositions take a objective Dat.; the verbs which take only direct object when compounded with certain prepositions take also Dat. of indirect object. Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Homework
7. Week Dative of advantage or reference; special uses of dative; dative of agent, ethic dative, dative of possessor, predicative dative; dative of purpose; Dat. of direction; Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Homework
8. Week Ablative Case, 1-Pure Ablatives: Abl of seperation; abl. of origin; abl.of comparison, 2-Abl.of Assosciation: abl. of association; abl. of quality; abl. of respect or spefication; abl.of manner; ablativus absolutus Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Homework
9. Week 3-İnstrumental Ablatives: Abl. of the agent; abl of instrument or Means; deponent verbs that take abl. ; Abl. of the Cause; Abl. of Measure;Abl. of Price; 4- Abl.of Time and Place; Locative case Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Homework
10. Week The Genetive Case: 1-Genitives of Definition: Appositional Genitive; Genitive of the Author; the Attributive or Descriptive Genitive;the Genitive of Characteristic; verbs and adjectives of accusing condemning convicting; the verbs and adjectives implying want and fulness; 2- Possessive Genitive Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Homework
11. Week 3-Genitive of Quality: Genitive of Quality; its use with numbers, age and size; Genetive of Value; 4-Genitive of the Whole, or Partitive Genitive: its use with nouns, pronouns or pronominal adjectives, with numerals and adjectives of number; with comparatives and superlatives; with nominative or accusative cases of singular neuter pronouns, with nimis, satis, parum Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Homework
12. Week 5-The Subjective and Objective Genitive : its use with substantives, adjectives, participles; objective genitives mei, tui, sui, nostri vestri ; 6- Genitive With Verbs of remembering, forgetting, reminding and adjectives memor, immemor, with the verbs of pitying Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Homework
13. Week Genitive with İmpersonal verbs Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Homework
14. Week The concepts of Place, Time and Space and the Cases involved Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Homework

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
‘Bradley’s Arnold’, Latin Prose Composition, Ed. J.F. Mountford , Longmans, London
A New Latin Syntax , E. C. Woodcock, Methuen London
Kennedy’s Revised Latin Primer, Longmans ,London
Tercümeli Latin Grameri, Faruk Zeki Perek, İstanbul Üniv. Edebiyat Fakültesi yayınları

Assessment
Measurement and Evaluation Methods and Techniques
midterm and final
Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
Program RequirementsContribution LevelDK1DK2DK3DK4DK5DK6DK7DK8
PY1500000000
PY2500000000
PY3500000000
PY4500000000

*DK = Course's Contrubution.
0 1 2 3 4 5
Level of contribution None Very Low Low Fair High Very High
.

ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
. 2 10
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 2 2
Midterm Exam 1 2
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam 2 3
Final Exam 1 2
Time to prepare for Final Exam 3 3
1 2
1 2
Dönem Sonu Sınavı (DSS) 1 2
Total Workload
Total Workload / 30 (s)
ECTS Credit of the Course
Quick Access Hızlı Erişim Genişlet
Course Information