Greek and Latin Studies

Learning Potential Test (TSP)

This test is only in Czech. For up-to-date information, click here

Field of Study Examination

For admission for studies of this degree programme, you do not need to take the Field of Study Examination.

Admission without the entrance examination

1. placing in any of the first three places in a national round in the Latin Competition - Certamen Latinum;
2. secondary school results with an average 1.5 or higher in the subjects Czech/ Slovak language, two foreign languages and a choice of one more subject determined by the faculty: English, history, French, music, information technology, Italian, Latin, maths, German, Russian, Spanish, basics of social sciences.

Secondary school results may be applied for an exemption from the entrance examination by those applicants whose average grade was 1.5 or higher in each of the four profile subjects. The total average result in all subjects is not taken into consideration. Secondary school seminars are also disregarded. The average grade of each profile subject is calculated based on the results of the last four years of study in the following way: the mid-year grade is calculated from the final year, whereas the final grades are calculated from the previous three years. It is also necessary that applicants have studied each of the profile subjects for at least two years during the last four years.
Enter your grades in your e-application. Then print the grades out and let your secondary school certify them with a stamp and a signature. Upload the scan of the certified grades into your e-application. You can also upload officially certified school reports or any other documents certifying your school results.
Please upload the officially certified documents directly to your e-application in the section Příloha 5 no later than 29 February.

Limit for TSP percentile for successfully passing the entrance examination: 40

Please be aware that the limits for successfully passing the entrance examination may differ from the limits for admission. The limits for admission will be determined only after the entrance examinations.

The Greek and Latin Studies programme opens the way for students to learn about the sources of European culture and scholarship. It enables students to discover in the original the ideas and works of the famous ancient figures who laid the foundations of European literature, established the Western philosophical, scientific and legal tradition, and entrusted to future generations the first democratic principles and values of civil society.

The programme focuses on the acquisition of the morphology and syntax of classical Greek (specifically its Attic dialect) or Latin, the study of ancient literature and the historical and cultural context in which ancient literary works were produced.

An important part of the study is the reading of original texts, in which students develop the ability to interpret the original text in a multifaceted way and learn to apply their grammatical, literary and cultural-historical knowledge. The study of Ancient Greek or Latin, which are morphologically and syntactically more complex than the commonly studied modern Indo-European languages, deepens general linguistic, analytical, interpretive and translation competences and facilitates the understanding of technical terminology from other disciplines. It teaches how to solve problems systematically and to take into account several aspects at once. The study of the ancient world then enables a better orientation in most areas of European culture.

Upon successful completion of the programme, the graduate is able to:

• reproduce by heart the basic morphology and syntactic rules of the Attic dialect of Ancient Greek (henceforth "classical Greek") and describe them using linguistic terminology (in the case of a single-subject plan, if class. Greek is the main plan);
• reproduce by heart the basic morphology and syntactic rules of Latin and describe them using linguistic terminology (in the case of a single-subject plan, if Latin is the main plan);
• analyse the structure of classical Greek sentences (in the case of a single-subject plan, if classical Greek is the main plan);
• analyse the structure of Latin sentences (in the case of a single-subject plan, if Latin is the main plan);
• translate shorter sentences into classical Greek (in the case of a single-subject plan, if classical Greek is the main plan)
• and translate shorter sentences into Latin (in the case of a single-subject plan, if Latin is the main plan);
• translate selected texts written in classical Greek into Czech and interpret them in a cultural and historical context (in the case of a single-subject plan, if classical Greek is the main plan);
• translate selected texts written in Latin into Czech and interpret them in a cultural and historical context (in the case of a single-subject plan, if Latin is the main plan);
• characterise the various stages of the development of ancient literature and its most significant authors;
• characterise the main literary genres and their distinctive features in ancient literature;
• describe methodological approaches used in classical philology;
• write a coherent text on academic topics, using Czech and foreign-language academic literature, electronic databases and scholarly methods.

The standard length of a bachelor's thesis is at least 70,000 characters but usually no more than 90,000 characters, including footnotes, table of contents, index, reference list and annotations. Students choose the topic of the thesis either from the topics published in the MU Information System or after individual agreement with the supervisor. In the bachelor's thesis, students demonstrate the ability to use the basic domestic and foreign literature on the chosen topic, to find additional sources and assess their relevance, to work with ancient Greek or Latin sources, to formulate and defend their own conclusions, and to write a structured coherent text in a scholarly style.