Introduction to the Culture of Ancient Greece (with a canon of reading in Polish translations) 3700-FN-1-WDKGA-OG

Knowledge: students completing the course will understand and be familiar with:
- the ties between philological sciences and other humanities disciplines;
- basic knowledge about the place of Greek among the Indo-European languages and its importance for the development of modern languages and contemporary scientific disciplines;
- the most important literary genres practised by the Ancient Greeks;
- literary periods, currents and movements in Greek writing as well as the Greeks’ literary achievements;
- examples of the reception of ancient heritage in Polish, Modern Greek and European literature.

Skills: students completing the course will be able to
- autonomously retrieve, evaluate and use information from different written and electronic sources, with due consideration for intellectual property protection;
- present orally or in writing simple research problems, also using different sources and critically referencing the literature of the subject.

Social competences: students completing the course will be ready to
- realize the limited extent of their own knowledge and skills;
- appreciate the importance of the Greek heritage in Polish and European culture and feel responsible for its preservation.

W. Lengauer: Starożytna Grecja okresu archaicznego i klasycznego, Warszawa 1999.
J. Łanowski, ks. M. Starowieyski: Literatura Grecji starożytnej. Od Homera do Justyniana, Warszawa 1996.
D. Dembińska-Siury: Człowiek odkrywa człowieka, Warszawa 1991.
A. Świderkówna: Hellenika. Wizerunek epoki od Aleksandra do Augusta. Warszawa 1974
K. Marciniak, Mitologia grecka i rzymska. Bohaterowie ponad czasem. Opowieści o bogach i herosach. Konteksty kulturowe. Historia i współczesność, Warszawa-Bielsko-Biała 2010.

Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:

• Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
• Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
• Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
• Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
• Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
• Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

• Description of 3700-FN-1-WDKGA-OG in USOSweb