Greek Language and Literature 2 (GREK3000)

Aims and outcomes

GREK3000ﾠis an intermediate course in Ancient Greek language and literature. Students complete their introduction to the grammar and syntax of Classical Greek, with an emphasis on learning through reading extracts of unadapted Classical Greek. The ancient genres of Philosophy (Plato), History (Herodotus),ﾠEpic Poetry (Homer) and Oratory (Andocides) are covered by the unadapted readings.

By the end of the semester you should be able to:

1. read, analyse and translate the extracts from ancient texts contained in JACT Reading Greek: Text and Vocabulary, Sections 16-20;

2. demonstrate, by means of exercises and parsing, a thorough understanding of the morphology, grammar and syntax of Classical Greek as presented in the accompanying JACT Reading Greek: Grammar and Exercises, Sections 16-20;

3. read, analyse and translate selected extracts from the works of Plato, Herodotus and Homer, as well as short extracts from related authors outside of the JACT textbook;

4. and, finally, show reasonable familiarity with starred (*) learning vocabulary relevant to the selected extracts from the JACT textbook, finish reading ALL the extracts in the JACT textbook, and be familiar with the dictionary, grammar reference skills and resources necessary for reading original Ancient Greek texts outside of the JACT textbook.

Learning outcomes

After successfully completing this course you should be able to:

Assessment

Assessment summary

Assessment details

Homework Assignments

• Online

Mode

Written

Category

Translation/ Interpretation

Weight

40%

Due date

Homework Assignment 1 19/06/2025 2:00 pm

Homework Assignment 2 26/06/2025 2:00 pm

Homework Assignment 3 10/07/2025 2:00 pm

Homework Assignment 4 7/08/2025 2:00 pm

Learning outcomes

L01, L02, L03, L04, L05

Task description

Submission guidelines

Please submit your completed homework assignment through the appropriate submission link on Blackboard.

Deferral or extension

You may be able to apply for an extension.

Extension applications must be via my.UQ –> Manage my program - > exams and assessment -> Applying for an extension. 

Extension applications must be submitted at least 24 hours prior to the submission date, unless the medical or other circumstances are such that the student cannot reasonably be expected to have applied by the appropriate due date.

Extension requests may take up to 48 hours to be assessed (not including weekends and public holidays).

Late submission

A penalty of 10% of the maximum possible mark will be deducted per 24 hours from time submission is due for up to 7 days. After 7 days, you will receive a mark of 0.

Analysis and Oral Presentation

• In-person
• Online

Mode

Oral, Written

Category

Translation/ Interpretation

Weight

25%

Due date

14/08/2025 - 4/09/2025

Learning outcomes

L01, L02, L03, L04, L05

Task description

Submission guidelines

Please submit your Part A: Translation and Analysis through the Turnitin submission link on Blackboard.

Deferral or extension

You may be able to apply for an extension.

Extension applications must be via my.UQ –> Manage my program - > exams and assessment -> Applying for an extension. 

Extension applications must be submitted at least 24 hours prior to the submission date, unless the medical or other circumstances are such that the student cannot reasonably be expected to have applied by the appropriate due date.

Extension requests may take up to 48 hours to be assessed (not including weekends and public holidays).

Late submission

A penalty of 10% of the maximum possible mark will be deducted per 24 hours from time submission is due for up to 7 days. After 7 days, you will receive a mark of 0.

Final Exam

• In-person

Mode

Written

Category

Examination

Weight

35%

Due date

End of Semester Exam Period

8/11/2025 - 22/11/2025

Learning outcomes

L01, L02, L03, L04, L05

Task description

Exam details

Submission guidelines

Deferral or extension

You may be able to defer this exam.

Deferral applications cannot be approved by the course coordinator. applications must be via my.UQ –> Manage my program - > exams and assessment.

Course grading

Full criteria for each grade is available in the Assessment Procedure.

Additional course grading information

Grammatical Exercise Assessment Criteria

Your grammatical exercises will be assessed according to the following criteria:

1. Knowledge of vocabulary.

2. Ability to recognize parts of speech and their properties.

3. Ability to formulate grammatical constructions according to specified paradigms.

4. Ability to apply knowledge of grammatical constructions in varying linguistic scenarios. 

To achieve a grade of 7 (High Distinction, 85-100%), your exercise should demonstrate that you have an exceptional knowledge of vocabulary, excellent familiarity with grammatical constructions, and that you are able to apply these constructions.

To achieve a grade of 6 (Distinction, 75-84%) your exercise should demonstrate that you have an excellent knowledge of vocabulary, very good familiarity with grammatical constructions, and the ability to apply most of these constructions.

To achieve a grade of 5 (Credit, 65 – 74%), your exercise should demonstrate that you have a proficient level of vocabulary, good familiarity with grammatical constructions, and are able to apply a large number of these constructions.

To achieve a grade of 4 (Pass, 50 – 64%), your exercise should demonstrate that you have a functional level of vocabulary, basic familiarity with grammatical constructions, and are able to apply most of these constructions.

To achieve a grade of 3 (Marginal Fail, 45 – 49%) your exercise should demonstrate that you have a superficial knowledge of vocabulary, basic familiarity with grammatical constructions, and have attempted to apply these constructions.

To achieve a grade of 2 (Fail, 25-44%), your exercise will demonstrate that you have a partial, faulty or clearly deficient level of vocabulary, that you are unfamiliar with grammatical constructions, and that you are unable to apply these constructions.

To achieve a grade of 1 (Low Fail, 0-24%) your exercise will demonstrate that you have not mastered your vocabulary, that you are unfamiliar with grammatical constructions, and that you are unable to apply these constructions.

Translation Exercise Assessment Criteria

Your translation exercises will be assessed according to the following criteria:

1. Knowledge of the semantic range of the vocabulary of the original text.

2. Ability to recognize grammatical and syntactical constructions in the original language.

3. Awareness of the genre and generic features of the original text.

4. Translated into good English. 

To achieve a grade of 7 (High Distinction, 85-100%), your translation should display an excellent knowledge of classical vocabulary, that you have the ability to recognize grammatical constructions, that you are very familiar with the genre of the author you are translating, and that you have excellent presentation and written expression.

To achieve a grade of 6 (Distinction, 75-84%), your translation should display a very good knowledge of classical vocabulary, that you have the ability to recognize grammatical constructions, that you are familiar with the genre of the author you are translating, and that you have very good presentation and written expression.

To achieve a grade of 5 (Credit, 65 – 74%), your translation should display a proficient knowledge of classical vocabulary, that you have the ability to recognize grammatical constructions, that you are familiar with the genre of the author you are translating, and that you have good presentation and effective written expression.

To achieve a grade of 4 (Pass, 50 – 64%), your translation should display a functional knowledge of classical vocabulary, that you have the ability to recognize grammatical constructions, that you are familiar with the genre of the author you are translating, and that you have satisfactory presentation skills and appropriate written expression.

To achieve a grade of 3 (Marginal Fail, 45 – 49%), your translation will show that you have only a superficial knowledge of classical vocabulary, a basic but flawed ability to recognize grammatical construction and that you are only superficially familiar with the genre of the author you are translating. Your presentation skills and written expression will be adequate.

To achieve a grade of 2 (Fail, 25-44%), your translation will show that you have a deficient level of knowledge of classical vocabulary, that you are unable to recognize the majority of grammatical constructions, that you are unfamiliar with genre of the author you are translating, and that you have poor presentation and/or written expression.

To achieve a grade of 1 (Low Fail, 0-24%), your translation will show that you have a clearly deficient level of knowledge of classical vocabulary, that you are unable to recognize grammatical constructions, that you are unfamiliar with genre of the author you are translating, and that you have very poor presentation and/or written expression.

Scansion Exercise Assessment Criteria

Your scansion exercise will be assessed according to the following criteria:

 1. Ability to identify relevant metre.

2. Familiarity with rules of relevant metre.

3. Ability to apply rules in scansion of lines of poetry.

To achieve a grade of 7 (High Distinction, 85-100%), your performance should demonstrate an excellent ability to identify metrical constructions and to apply metrical rules to the scansion of poetry.

To achieve a grade of 6 (Distinction, 75-84%), your performance should demonstrate a very good ability to identify metrical constructions and to apply metrical rules to the scansion of poetry.

To achieve a grade of 5 (Credit, 65-74%), your performance should demonstrate a proficient ability to identify metrical constructions and to apply metrical rules to the scansion of poetry.

To achieve a grade of 4 (Pass, 50-64%), your performance should demonstrate a functional ability to identify metrical constructions and to apply metrical rules to the scansion of poetry.

To achieve a grade of 3 (Marginal Fail, or 45-49%), your performance will have demonstrated that you have only a superficial and faulty ability to identify metrical constructions and to apply metrical rules to the scansion of poetry.

To achieve a grade of 2 (Fail, 25-44%), your performance will have demonstrated that you have a deficient ability to identify metrical constructions and to apply metrical rules to the scansion of poetry.

To achieve a grade of 1 (Low Fail, 0-24%), your performance will have demonstrated that you have a clearly deficient ability to identify or are unable to identify metrical constructions or to apply metrical rules to the scansion of poetry.

Oral Presentation Assessment Criteria

 Your oral presentation will be assessed according to the following criteria: 

 1.                 Content and argument of the topic of the presentation.

2.                 Engagement with academic sources and evidence.

3.                 Compliance with the stated time limit.

4.                 Evidence of preparation including powerpoint if required.

5.                 Fluency, ease and persuasiveness of the presentation.

6.                 Fostering of discussion and engagement of audience, as per course requirements.

To achieve a grade of 7 (High Distinction, 85-100%), you will have presented a very fluent and exceptionally well-prepared talk that clarifies and explains your topic with a very clear and effective structure. You will have utilised both supplied and original materials to achieve a highly affective discussion that complies precisely with the stated time limit.

To achieve a grade of 6 (Distinction, 75-84%) you will have presented a fluent and very well-prepared talk that clarifies and explains your topic with a clear and effective structure. You will have utilised supplied and original materials to achieve a very effective discussion that complies with the stated time limit.

To achieve a grade of 5 (Credit, 65 – 74%), you will have presented a well-prepared, proficient talk that clarifies and explains your topic with an adequate and functional structure. You will have utilised supplied and original materials to achieve an effective discussion within the stated time limit.

To achieve a grade of 4 (Pass, 50 – 64%), you will have presented a basic talk that addresses aspects of your topic but with some flaws in approach, structure and/or delivery. There may have been limitations in your use of supporting materials, and/or difficulties in meeting set time constraints.

To achieve a grade of 3 (Marginal Fail, 45 – 49%), you will have presented a talk that has clear potential, but has only superficially addressed aspects of your topic. There will have been several flaws in your approach, structure and/or delivery. There will have been limitations in your use of supporting materials, and/or difficulties in meeting set time constraints.

To achieve a grade of 2 (Fail, 25-44%), you will have presented a talk that was not adequately prepared or presented. Minimal effort will have been put into clarifying your topic, and your approach, structure and/or delivery will have been deficient or flawed. Major deficiencies will also have been present in utilising supporting materials and/or meeting time requirements.

To achieve a grade of 1 (Low Fail, 0-24%), you will have presented a talk that was not well prepared or presented. You will have not clarified your topic and your talk will have lacked an effective structure. You will not have utilised supporting materials and/or met time requirements.

Supplementary assessment

Supplementary assessment is available for this course.

Additional assessment information

The only form of Supplementary Assessment for GREK3000 is a Final Exam.

 Students must apply as instructed https://my.uq.edu.au/information-and-services/manage-my-program/exams-and-assessment/ and be available during the University’s Deferred and Supplementary examination period.

Failure to submit all major assessment items (those worth 15% and above) will result in a maximum grade of 2 (Fail).

By submitting work through Turnitin you are deemed to have accepted the following declaration: ‘I certify that this assignment is my own work and has not been submitted, either previously or concurrently, in whole or in part, to this University or any other educational institution, for marking or assessment’.

All students must ensure that they receive their Turnitin receipt on every submission of assessment items. YOU MUST CHECK THAT THE RECEIPT CONFIRMS THAT SUBMISSION HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL.

A valid Turnitin receipt will be the only evidence accepted if assessments are missing.

Without evidence, the assessment will receive the standard late penalty, or after ten calendar days, will receive zero.

In the case of a Blackboard outage, please contact the Course Coordinator as soon as possible so that they can confirm the outage with ITS.

It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that they are submitting assessment items on a device that is capable of the task, and that appropriate internet bandwidth and speed is available.

If you cannot be sure that your device or internet will enable you to complete or submit an assessment task, you must come onto campus and use one of the University Computers in the Library or Computer Labs.

Plagiarism, and asking or paying someone else to do your work is cheating and constitutes academic misconduct. See ECP Section 6.1

Feedback against the assessment criteria in the form of comments on your script will be provided through Turnitin or on your script directly.

For information on assessment remarks see: https://my.uq.edu.au/information-and-services/manage-my-program/exams-and-assessment/querying-result

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Learning resources

You'll need the following resources to successfully complete the course. We've indicated below if you need a personal copy of the reading materials or your own item.

Library resources

Library resources are available on the UQ Library website.

Additional learning resources information

Students will have access to other Learning Resources via Blackboard.

It is recommended that students familiarise themselves with the translation and parsing help offered by websites such as the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG, restricted access from UQ Library website), The Perseus Project (open access, from texts in the public domain), and Alpheios, which all offer a range of Ancient Greek texts and scholarship online.

Learning activities

The learning activities for this course are outlined below. Learn more about the learning outcomes that apply to this course.

Policies and procedures

University policies and procedures apply to all aspects of student life. As a UQ student, you must comply with University-wide and program-specific requirements, including the:

• Student Code of Conduct Policy
• Student Integrity and Misconduct Policy and Procedure
• Assessment Procedure
• Examinations Procedure
• Reasonable Adjustments - Students Policy and Procedure

Learn more about UQ policies on my.UQ and the Policy and Procedure Library.