Latin (LAT)
The basic elements of classical Latin grammar and Roman culture, with readings emphasizing ethics, history, morality, philosophy, and mythology.
Continuation of LAT 1301.
Introduction to the Latin language including the same inflection, syntax and easy reading as LAT 1301. Teaching strategies differ from those of the traditional Latin class, including more contact hours and a variety of teaching techniques with emphasis on repetition of particular structures.
Introduction to the Latin language including the same inflection, syntax and easy reading as LAT 1302. Teaching strategies differ from those of the traditional Latin class, including more contact hours and a variety of teaching techniques with emphasis on repetition of particular structures.
Undergraduate research undertaken with the supervision of a faculty member. May be taken for a maximum of 6 hours.
Build fluency and understanding in Latin by learning to use Latin actively, in speech and in writing, enabling students to read and understand written Latin texts more quickly and easily.
Selections from Latin prose authors, such as Cicero; review of inflection and syntax.
Selections from Julius Caesar; review of inflection and syntax.
Selections from Latin poets, such as Virgil and Catullus; review of inflection and syntax.
Selections from representative Latin authors, including Caesar, Cicero, and Apuleius; review of inflection and syntax.
Selections from representative Latin authors including Vergil, Ovid, Catullus, Propertius, and Tibullus; review of inflection and syntax.
Undergraduate research undertaken with the supervision of a faculty member. May be taken for a maximum of 6 hours.
Selections from the De Rerum Natura.
Selections from the Roman historian Livy.
Selections from the Roman historian Tacitus.
Selections from the Letters and the Epigrams.
Selections from the philosophical writings of Cicero.
Detailed study of selections from the works of Sallust.
Readings on the life and times of Gaius Julius Caesar.
Study of imperial epic poetry (selections from Lucan, Statius, Silius, Valerius Flaccus) and its significance for the development of Roman imperial ideology.
Study of Ovid's epic poem, Metamorphoses.
Latin inscriptions and selected letters of Cicero, Seneca, and Pliny.
Study of Seneca's tragedies, the Euripidean influence, and their impact on world theatre.
Selected plays of Plautus and Terence.
Selections from the poetry of Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid.
Selected satires of Horace and Juvenal.
Selections from the poetry of Horace.
Selections from representative prose authors, including Peter Abelard, Bede, Ekkehard of Aura, Petrarch, Erasmus, Thomas More; review of inflection and syntax.
Selections from representative poetic styles and poets; authors may include St. Columba, Fortunatus, Paulus Diaconus, Reinardus Vulpes, Walter Map, Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, and Gulielmus Gnapheus; review of inflection and syntax.
A Comparative Reading in Latin of selections of Terence's six comedies and Hrotswitha's six medieval plays on Christian themes, inspired by Terence and transformed into a Christian context.
A Reading in Latin of selections of mystery, morality, and miracle plays from the 10th to the 14th century on Old and New Testament topics.
Undergraduate research undertaken with the supervision of a faculty member. May be taken for a maximum of 6 hours.
Latin grammar, morphology, syntax, and phonology, prose composition, and reading of theoretical texts and analysis of Latin words in passages from ancient authors.
Translation from Latin into English of selections from the works of Virgil, especially the Eclogues, Georgics, and/or Aeneid.
Readings in Latin on the life and times of the Roman emperor Augustus.
Practice in analysis and composition of Latin prose to improve grammar and syntax and promote knowledge and appreciation of Latin prose style.
The influence of Statius and his masterpiece, the Thebaid on Medieval Latin and vernacular epics.
Latin authors to be read are selected to meet the needs of the student. With content changed, this course may be repeated up to a total of nine semester hours.
Undergraduate research undertaken with the supervision of a faculty member. May be taken for a maximum of 6 hours.