LATIN
COURSES
LATI 1. Elementary 1
4 sem. hrs. Introduction to Latin morphology and syntax, with graded readings and cultural information. Offered annually. Open to students with no previous study of Latin or by departmental placement.
LATI 2. Elementary 2
4 sem. hrs. Continuation of LATI 1. Exercises in Latin morphology and syntax with graded readings and cultural information. Offered annually. Prereq: LATI 1 or by departmental placement.
LATI 3. Intermediate 1
3 sem. hrs. Continuation of LATI 2. Exercises in advanced Latin morphology and syntax with graded readings in Latin prose and poetry and cultural information. Offered annually. Prereq: LATI 2 or by departmental placement.
LATI 4. Intermediate 2
3 sem. hrs. A continuation of LATI 3. Review of Latin morphology and syntax with extended readings from Latin literature. Offered annually. Prereq: LATI 3 or by departmental placement.
LATI 5. Latin Placement Credit
3-6 sem. hrs. A student who places at LATI 4 and completes LATI 4 with a grade of B or better will be eligible for three additional credit hours at a grade of S to be designated as LATI 5. Students exempted from the foreign language requirement will be eligible for six additional credit hours at a grade of S to be designated as LATI 5 upon completion with a grade of B or better of a third year course to be designated by the department. S/U grade assessment. Credit earned for LATI 5 cannot be used toward the major or minor.
LATI 105. Survey of Republican Latin Literature
3 sem. hrs. Survey of Republican Latin Literature through the end of the Roman Republic, with emphasis on reading, translation, analysis, and composition. Offered annually. Prereq: LATI 4 or by departmental placement.
LATI 106. Survey of Later Latin Literature
3 sem. hrs. Continuation of LATI 105. Survey of Latin Literature through the end of the Roman Republic (including Imperial and Medieval Latin), with emphasis on reading, translation, analysis and composition. Offered annually. Prereq: LATI 4 or by departmental placement.
LATI 110. Vergil: Aeneid
3 sem. hrs. Translation of selections from Books 1-12 of Vergil’s great national epic, the Aeneid, telling of the journey of Aeneas from fallen Troy to the shores of Italy. Background readings and discussions on Vergil’s literary debt to Homer, The Aeneid as a national epic, and the Roman view of the Trojan legacy. Offered occasionally. Prereq: LATI 105 or LATI 106.
LATI 112. Horace: Odes
3 sem. hrs. Reading, translation, and analysis of selected lyric poems of Horace. Offered occasionally. Prereq: LATI 105 or LATI 106.
LATI 113. Livy
3 sem. hrs. Translation of selections from Livy’s great history, Ab Urbe Condita, telling of the legends of early Rome and the military and political struggles of the Republic. Background readings on Roman historiography. Offered occasionally. Prereq: LATI 105 or LATI 106.
LATI 121. Quintilian: Institutio Oratoria
3 sem. hrs. Reading, translation, and analysis of selections from Quintilian’s treatise on education. Required for teaching majors. Offered occasionally. Prereq: LATI 105 or LATI 106. LATI 133. Roman Letter Writers 3 sem. hrs. Readings, translation, and analysis of selections from the letters of Cicero, Seneca, and Pliny. Offered occasionally. Prereq: LATI 105 or LATI 106.
LATI 134. Elegiac Poetry
3 sem. hrs. Translations of selections from the love poems of Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. Background readings and discussions on the origin and conventions of Roman elegiac poetry. Study of the elegiac couplet. Offered occasionally. Prereq: LATI 105 or LATI 106.
LATI 150. Roman Comedy: Plautus and Terence
3 sem. hrs. Reading in Latin of several comedies from the works of Plautus and Terence, Rome’s surviving comic playwrights. Comedies translated may include Plautus’ Miles Gloriosus, Menaechmi, and Mostellaria; and Terence’s Adelphi and Woman of Andros. Background readings and discussion on the origin and conventions of Roman comedy and the technicalities of staging a Roman comedy. Offered occasionally. Prereq: LATI 105 or LATI 106.
LATI 155. Roman Satire: Juvenal
3 sem. hrs. Reading, translation, and analysis of selections from the Satires of Juvenal. Offered occasionally. Prereq: LATI 105 or LATI 106.
LATI 160. Tacitus: Germania and Agricola
3 sem. hrs. Reading, translation, and analysis of selections from the shorter works of Tacitus, with additional selections from the Annales. Offered occasionally. Prereq: LATI 105 or LATI 106.
LATI 170. Roman Civilization and Art
3 sem. hrs. Major achievements of Ancient Romans in literature, art, and architecture presented in a historical framework. Survey of the architectural remains. Background readings and discussions on such topics as Roman religious cults, the rise of Christianity, Stoicism and Roman Principate, rhetoric and education, and the legacy of Roman law. Offered occasionally. Knowledge of Latin not required; does not count toward fulfillment of the foreign language requirement .
LATI 174. Cicero: Political and Philosophical Writings
3 sem. hrs. Reading, translation, and analysis of selections from the speeches and dialogues of Cicero. Offered occasionally. Prereq: LATI 105 or LATI 106.
LATI 182. Composition
3 sem. hrs. Systematic review of Latin syntax. Exercises of increasing difficulty in writing Latin prose. Analysis of prose of selected Roman authors. Creative writing in Latin. Offered occasionally. Prereq: LATI 105 or LATI 106.
LATI 185. Medieval Latin
3 sem. hrs. Reading, translation, and analysis of a wide selection of Medieval Latin texts in prose and verse. Offered occasionally. Prereq: LATI 105 or LATI 106.
LATI 195. Independent Study
1-3 sem. hrs. Offered every term. Prereq: Cons. of dept. ch.
LATI 196. Senior Seminar
3 sem. hrs. Advanced study of a cultural, linguistic or literary theme. Seminar will fulfill the College of Arts and Sciences Senior Experience Curriculum requirement. Specific topic of the seminar to be announced in the Schedule of Classes. Offered occasionally. Prereq: Sr. stndg.; or cons. of dept. ch.
LATI 198. Topics in Language or Literature
1-3 sem. hrs. Subject to be announced. Offered occasionally. Prereq: Sr. stndg. or cons. of dept. ch.
LATI 199. Senior Thesis
2 sem. hrs. Introductory thesis guidance for approved students under the direction of a departmental adviser. Offered occasionally. Prereq: Cons. of dept. ch.
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