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GK4116 Greeks on Education

Academic year

2026 to 2027 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Available to General Degree students with the permission of the Honours Adviser

Planned timetable

TBC

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Module coordinator

Prof A G Long

Prof A G Long
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Module Staff

Prof Alex Long

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Module description

The debate about education in one of the most exciting periods of ancient Athenian history. Can education make you a better person? Could education make you a worse person? What form should a good education take? We shall consider how different Athenian intellectuals conceived of the challenge posed by sophistry, how they tried to distance their own teaching from sophistry, and how they looked within and beyond Athenian culture for models of good (and bad) education. We shall also examine their discussions of whether education can deliver the advantages promised by some educators and their different conceptions of the connection between education and political leadership.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

40 CREDITS FROM GK2001, GK2002 AND (GK2003, GK2004, OR GK3021, GK3022)

Assessment pattern

Written Examination = 40%, Coursework = 60%

Re-assessment

Examination = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

2 hours x 11 weeks

Scheduled learning hours

22

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

278

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • Recognise characteristic features of a wide range of Greek texts from different genres that engage with debates about education
  • Describe and analyse the language, contents, narrative technique, philosophical arguments and style of these works
  • Analyse the interaction of these works with their social, cultural, intellectual and historical context
  • Demonstrate expertise and advanced skills in translating these and related texts, seen and unseen, into good English
  • Analyse, critically evaluate and discuss select pieces of published research
  • Devise sophisticated and wide-ranging, coherent arguments on important research questions related to the prescribed texts on the basis of a thorough analysis of the primary text and the critical analysis of published scholarship