Greek Literature (20105)

General competences

Specific competences

1.      INTRUMENTAL SKILLS

• Understanding and interpreting in an appropriate and well-reasoned fashion written academic texts.
• Being able to justify with solid arguments one's own positions, as well as to defend them in front of an audience.

2.      PERSONAL SKILLS

• Being able to work in a group, actively collaborating in the tasks and negotiating the rise of differing opinions to reach consensual positions.
• Developing autonomous reasoning skills with an analytical distance to controversial topics or issues.
• Accepting opinion diversity as a fundamental ingredient to academic life and as an integral part of contemporary society, and being able to express one's opinions within the respect to differing opinions.
• Having consolidated habits of self-discipline, self-exigency and rigour in the carrying out of academic work, as well as in its organisation and correct timing.

3.      SYSTEMIC SKILLS

• Having a developed sense of curiosity and a wish for knowing the unknown, essential in any formative process and in any professional activity with some prospects.
• Being able to apply, flexibly and creatively, the acquired knowledge and to apply it to new contexts and situations.
• Being able to progress autonomously and continually in the training and learning processes.

1.      DISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE

• Knowing, situating and interpreting the beginnings of European literary activity from its generic origins in Greece.
• Knowing, situating and interpreting briefly the main literary works and schools in Ancient Greece and its impact in Rome and in the future.
• Knowing, situating and interpreting briefly the main periods and structural elements in the classical civilization (Greece and Rome), in the social, political, symbolic and spiritual aspects, based on literary witnesses.
• An approximation to first-hand knowledge of the main textual documentary sources.
• An introduction to the Greek language and its literary variants.
• Knowing and managing monographic studies and substantial bibliography for the subject.
• Knowing the main methodological approaches present in the different fields of academic knowledge, as well as the emerging tendencies being developed among them.

2.      PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

• Being able to interpret written texts in a well-reasoned and competent fashion, with the prospect of writing an appropriately justified personal opinion.
• Being able to relate to each other information and documents of a varied nature and proceeding from different specialities with a transversal and integrating perspective.

3.      ACADEMIC SKILLS

• Recognising the value of the human artistic and cultural patrimony, both of a universal and of a local nature, as well as the need to preserve and promote it.
• Being aware of the transversal nature of knowledge and of the convenience of transcending the borders between academic specialities, and in particular the need to get over the division between the so-called two cultures, Humanities and Science.