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  • LAT 1 / Elementary Latin I (4) - view
    An introduction to Latin grammar, syntax, and vocabulary with appropriate readings from original writings of ancient authors. Attention is given to aspects of Roman language, history, and culture that have strongly influenced Western thought. Offered fall semester.
  • LAT 2 / Elementary Latin II (4) - view
    An introduction to Latin grammar, syntax, and vocabulary with appropriate readings from original writings of ancient authors. Attention is given to aspects of Roman language, history, and culture that have strongly influenced Western thought. Prerequisite: LAT 1. Offered spring semester.
  • LAT 30 / Intermediate Latin: Prose (4) - view
    Readings from Latin prose authors, such as Caesar, Sallust, and Cicero; consideration of Roman culture together with review of the language. Prerequisite: One year of college Latin or placement based on exam. Offered fall semester.
  • LAT 100 / Roman Poetry (4) - view
    Readings chosen from the love-poetry of Catullus and Ovid; Ovid's Metamorphoses (one of our major sources of classical mythology); Horace's Odes and Satires; and Lucretius. Consideration of the literary and cultural backgrounds of the works and their influence. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Prerequisite: LAT 30 or placement based on exam. Offered fall semester in odd-numbered years.
  • LAT 110 / Vergil (4) - view
    Readings from Vergil's Aeneid and study of its literary and historical contexts. Prerequisite: LAT 30 or placement based on exam. Offered fall semester in odd-numbered years.
  • LAT 120 / Roman Prose (4) - view
    Readings chosen from Cicero's speeches from the courtroom or the Senate; the letters of Cicero and Pliny; and the histories of Sallust, Livy, Suetonius, and Tacitus. With study of their historical contexts, prose style, rhetorical techniques, and influence. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Prerequisite: LAT 30 or placement based on exam. Offered spring semester in even-numbered years.
  • LAT 150 / Independent Study (2-4) - view
    Readings in Latin authors chosen to satisfy students' special interests. Weekly meetings, conducted as a tutorial, for translation, with oral and written reports. Amount of credit established at time of registration. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: LAT 30 and permission of instructor. Offered fall and spring semester.

Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum

  • LAT 99 / Latin Across The Curriculum (1-2) - view
    Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum is a tutorial program which seeks to enable students with at least intermediate-level proficiency in a foreign language to access authentic materials in that language that are relevant to a cognate course. Students will use their acquired skills to read and interpret texts in the foreign language and/or conduct research in the language. Knowledge gained will be applied to the work of the cognate course. Amount of credit established at time of registration. May be taken again with a different cognate course. Prerequisite: LAT 30 or equivalent and signature of language instructor. Corequisite: Concurrent registration in a cognate course.