Hello all, I am pleased to off the two courses listed below this summer online. There are both undergraduate and graduate options. If you are not a Bemidji State University student, directions on admission can be found here: http://www.bemidjistate.edu/academics/distance/admissions/ The ability to use basic software is required, and much will be delivered through D2L, a Blackboard like software that the student will be able to access once enrolled for the class. I’m looking forward to seeing some of you there!
ENGL 3930/5930
Intensive Latin Online 2013
Dr. Larry Swain
Bemidji State University
Course
Description: This course is an intensive introduction to Latin,
covering in nine weeks a full academic year’s worth of the language.
This will require a lot of work and dedication on the part of both
instructor and student. By the end, however, the student should be able
to read Latin prose with the aid of a grammar and a good dictionary or
lexicon. There will be a great deal of memorization. Via our online
tools, discussion board, online office hours, recorded lectures, live
lectures, exercise sharing and corrections, and Q&A sessions
delivered via D2L, power point presentations, and other tools, we will
go through the entire text and master basic Latin.
The course will require a commitment from the student. A MINIMUM of 2
hours and preferably 4-6 hours a day will need to be spent working on
the exercises, in class, interacting with the professor etc. Because
delivery is online rather than in a traditional classroom, the need for
each individual student to apply him- or herself diligently daily is
even more important than in a face-to-face class. We
will meet virtually in an online classroom for each lesson to explain the grammar lesson, to do some in class
exercises, to correct exercises, and so on, for approximately an hour, more if necessary or if student interest.
The rest of your time will be spent working on exercises, translating
sample passages of actual Latin, memorizing the forms.
Texts:
Intensive Latin by Floyd Moreland and Rita Fleischer
Other materials as assigned
(I
will have advice about students’ dictionaries, additional grammar aids
in print and online and so on as well throughout the course).
Highly Recommended: English Grammar for Students of Latin: The Study Guide for Those Learning Latin by Norma Goldman and Ladislas Szymanski
This course is six credits; I think a full year of Latin deserves a full year of credit. The above URL at the top is the Center for Extended Learning Admissions website. This URL is for the tuition calculator: http://www.bemidjistate.edu/offices/business/tuition_fees/tuition_calculator/.
English 3390/5390:
Intensive Old English
Summer 2013
Dr. Larry J. Swain
Bemidji State University
This
seminar is intended to accomplish three related objectives: 1) to learn
to read Old English and translate texts in Old English with relative
ease 2) to have an overview of Anglo-Saxon Literature and 3) to place
the language and literature into the historical, cultural, theological,
intellectual, and material contexts. That's a tall order. But like
those we read who endure heroically, so shall we: we will be able to by
semester's end read Old English literature in Old English, both prose
and poetry. The approach is simple. This is an intensive course, a
full 15 week course offered over 9 weeks in Summer via the Internet.
We will cover approximately two chapters of the textbook each week, and during the last
couple of weeks we will be working exclusively in translating Old
English texts.
Textbooks:
Reading Old English: An Introduction by Robert Hasenfratz and Thomas Jambeck
A History of Old English Literature by Michael Alexander
Recommended:
The Anglo-Saxons James Campbell
Larry Swain
lswain@bemidjistate.edu
No comments:
Post a Comment