Latin Course Descriptions

Introduction to the fundamental principles of classical Latin. Students will attain as rapidly as possible the ability to read and understand literary works.

Continuation of Latin 101. Further study of Latin forms and syntax, followed by reading from one or more authors.

Credit, eight hours. An intensive introduction to the fundamentals of classical Latin, equivalent to both Latin 101 and 102.

Fall. A review of grammar and an introduction to Latin prose through selections from one or more authors such as Caesar, Apuleius, and Livy.

Spring. Selected readings in the poetry of Ovid and others, with attention to poetic art as well as grammar and syntax.

Credit, one to four hours.

Credit, one to four hours.

Reading of selected speeches and rhetorical works by Cicero, with attention to style, content, and historical background.

Reading and discussion of lyric poems, chiefly by Catullus and Horace.

Reading of one or more books by Sallust, Livy, or Tacitus, with attention to narrative style, critical method, and historical aims.

Reading of selected passages from the Eclogues, Georgics, or Aeneid, with discussion of poetic forms and strategies.

Reading of two or more plays of Plautus or Terence, with discussion of Roman comedy's predecessors and influence.

Reading of selected satires of Horace or Juvenal together with selections from the Satyricon of Petronius, with discussion of Roman society and its critics.

Reading and discussion of selected poems by Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid.

Reading of selected passages of De Rerum Natura, with attention to philosophical content and poetic art.

An introduction to Latin of the medieval world, including grammar and readings in a variety of texts from the fourth to thirteenth centuries.

Topics will vary; the course may be repeated for credit as topic varies.

May be repeated for credit as topic varies.

Credit, two to four hours.

Credit, one to four hours. Advanced supervised study in Latin literature.

Credit, one to four hours. Advanced supervised study in Latin literature.