LAT Course Descriptions

Latin (2009-2010)

A course designed for students beginning the study of Latin or who have not yet reached the level expected in LAT 201/202. Although the teaching approach emphasizes exposure to simple texts as soon as possible, students desiring minimal competence in reading should go on to do LAT 102.

Continuation of LAT 101. Most of the rules of Latin grammar will be covered by the end of the year, and students should have a minimal competence in reading prose texts; but for the remaining grammar and further practice students should go on to do LAT 201.

The course will complete the study of Latin grammar and move on to unadapted readings in Latin authors, particularly Caesar.

A course designed to follow LAT 201, including both literature and grammar review. Authors normally read are Vergil and Ovid.

A selection of material from one author or several authors within the field of Latin prose. Topics and selections may include oratory and rhetoric, history, philosophy, Cicero, Quintilian, Caesar, Livy, and Lucretius.

A selection of material from one author or several authors within the field of Latin poetry. Topics and selections may include comedy, lyric poetry, elegy, epic, Plautus, Terence, Catullus, Ovid and Vergil.

An investigation of selected themes, topics, time periods or genres in Latin.

Composition, translation and grammar with intensive analysis of selected passages.

Survey of Medieval Latin poetry and prose.

The course introduces and investigates Latin inscriptions as evidence for the Latin language and Roman political, religious, legal, social and economic history.

A practical overview of the various styles of Latin handwriting from the late Roman Empire to the writing styles of the Renaissance humanists which introduces students to the study of original documents and manuscripts.

Advanced composition, translation, and grammar with intensive analysis of selected passages.

A selection of material from one author or several authors or an investigation of selected themes, topics or genres at the senior level. Topics and authors may include philosophy, letter writing, history, elegy, satire, Seneca, Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Propertius, Petronius and Juvenal.

Under special circumstances and with the approval of the Department, a student or small group of students may arrange to pursue individualized readings under the supervision of a faculty member.