To develop students’ awareness of themselves as scholars. Successful writing at Masters level requires the students’ becoming familiar with both the forms of scholarly writing and their use. Students will be assessed in the practical business of scholarly presentation as well as their ability to demonstrate an informed sense of selection and evaluation in the process of information retrieval and collection.
The suggested texts for reading, discussing, presenting and writing on, from a comparative perspective, cover some important ancient texts and their modern re-writings. The area is the Mediterranean basin, and the period the twelve hundred years from, roughly, 800 B.C. to A.D. 400. In this space and time the intellectual and religious foundations which would later on determine and influence the Western outlook, were laid.