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Courses
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Beginners' course.
Elementary Latin: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for LATIN 1 after completing LATIN 15.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring:
15 weeks - 3-4 hours of lecture per week
15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Beginners' course.
Elementary Latin: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 1 or equivalent
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-4 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2025 10 Week Session, Summer 2024 10 Week Session, Summer 2023 10 Week Session
Designed for anyone who wishes to acquire reading knowledge of Latin; replaces 2+ semesters of traditional study. Lectures, discussions, drills and tutorial sessions on grammar and vocabulary; readings in Latin prose and poetry (e.g., Cicero and Ovid).
The Latin Workshop: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Senior or graduate standing, or consent of instructor
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive five units of credit for Latin 15 after completing Latin 1, five units after completing Latin 2, and no credit after completing Latin 10.
Hours & Format
Summer: 10 weeks - 30 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013
Supervised Independent Study and Research: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and 3.3 overall GPA; restricted to freshmen and sophomores
Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
Selected readings in Caesar, Sallust, and Cicero; some review of grammar.
Republican Prose: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 2, 10, or 15
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Selected readings from Vergil.
Vergil: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 100
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2021
An introduction to the short poems of Catullus and the Odes of Horace, read in Latin.
Lyric and Society: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 100
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2009
Readings in Comedy (Plautus and/or Terence) and Tragedy (Seneca).
Roman Drama: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 101 or 102
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2020, Fall 2016
Readings in the De Rerum Natura and the Georgics.
Lucretius, Vergil's Georgics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 101 or 102
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2015, Fall 2006
Readings in Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid.
Elegiac Poetry: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 101 or 102
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2019, Fall 2017
Readings in Latin epic poetry.
Latin Epic: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 101 or 102
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2014, Fall 2013
Readings in Latin prose authors such as Sallust, Cicero, Caesar, and Livy.
Latin Prose to AD 14: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 100 and either 101 or 102 or 140
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2018, Spring 2012, Fall 2008
Readings in Tacitus.
Tacitus: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 100 and either 101 or 102 or 140
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2023
Readings in Seneca, the younger Pliny, and other prose writers.
Post-Augustan Prose: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 100 and either 101 or 102 or 140
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
Introduction to medieval Latin: readings in prose and poetry from Cassiodorus to the Italian Renaissance, with emphasis on certain periods.
Medieval Latin: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 100
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2010, Spring 2006
Study of texts selected from the early, high, or late medieval periods. Focuses on prose.
Readings in Medieval Latin: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 100 or 101 or 102 or 140, or consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: 107.
Terms offered: Spring 2020
The goal of this course is to improve your understanding of Latin prose, its basic syntactical principles and the stylistic variation we see across the corpus. To this end, the course will comprise several components: review of grammar (especially syntax), vocabulary, and idiom; composition exercises; and reading passages (prepared and at sight) from Latin authors.
Latin Prose Syntax and Stylistics: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This is a two-semester Honors course [H195A-B]. The work for the Honors course may either build on work in a previous upper division course used in fulfillment of the Latin major or may be a newly conceived project. The work will result in the writing of a thesis, to be evaluated by an Honors committee of three members. Written thesis due the Monday of the 13th week of the semester in which the course is taken.
Honors Course in Latin: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: A student must be a declared major in the Classics Department and in the subject in which Honors is done. A student must have a 3.6 overall GPA and a 3.6 GPA in the major courses
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. This is part one of a year long series course. A provisional grade of IP (in progress) will be applied and later replaced with the final grade after completing part two of the series. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020
This is a two-semester course [H195A-B]. The work for the Honors course may either build on work in a previous upper division course used in fulfillment of the Latin major or may be a newly conceived project. The work will result in the writing of a thesis, to be evaluated by an Honors committee of three members. Written thesis due the Monday of the 13th week of the semester in which the course is taken.
Honors Course in Latin: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: A student must be a declared major in the Classics Department and in the subject in which Honors is done. A student must have a 3.6 overall GPA and a 3.6 GPA in the major courses
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both parts of the series. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013
Supervised Independent Study and Research: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Restricted to senior honor students
Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 2-7.5 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.