Sections
Latin
Last updated: August 14, 2014 at 4:29 p.m.
See Classical Studies.
Courses of Instruction
(1-99) Primarily for Undergraduate Students
LAT
10a
Beginning Latin
Three class hours per week.
An introduction to Latin grammar, based on Latin authors. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Johnston
LAT
20b
Continuing Latin
Prerequisite: A grade of C- or higher in LAT 10a or permission of the instructor. Three class hours per week.
See LAT 10a for course description. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Johnston
LAT
30a
Intermediate Latin: Literature
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Prerequisite: A grade of C- or higher in LAT 20b or permission of the instructor. Three class hours per week.
An introduction to Latin literature; selections of Latin prose and verse from various periods. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Walker
LAT
97a
Senior Essay
Staff
LAT
98a
Directed Reading
Generally reserved for those students who have exhausted regular course offerings. Usually offered every year.
Staff
LAT
98b
Directed Reading
Generally reserved for those students who have exhausted regular course offerings. Usually offered every year.
Staff
LAT
99d
Senior Research
For seniors writing an honors thesis under direction. Usually offered every year.
Staff
(100-199) For Both Undergraduate and Graduate Students
LAT
110b
Advanced Latin Composition
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Poetry and prose composition. Offered on request.
Ms. Johnston
LAT
115a
Roman Drama
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Selected plays of Plautus and Terence, in Latin. Usually offered every fourth year.
Ms. Johnston
LAT
116b
Roman Satire
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The satires of Horace and Juvenal, in Latin. Usually offered every fourth year.
Ms. Johnston
LAT
117a
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
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Close reading (in Latin) and discussion of poetic and philosophical dimensions of the poem. Usually offered every fourth year.
Ms. Johnston
LAT
118a
Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry
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Selections from Catullus, Horace, Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid, in Latin. Usually offered every third year.
Ms. Johnston
LAT
118b
Roman Historians
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Selections from the histories of Julius Caesar, Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus, in Latin. Usually offered every fourth year.
Ms. Walker
LAT
119b
Ovid: Metamorphoses
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Selections from Ovid's mythological-poetic history of the universe, in Latin. Usually offered every fourth year.
Ms. Johnston
LAT
120a
Vergil
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Selections from Vergil's Eclogues, Georgics, and the Aeneid in Latin. Usually offered every third year.
Ms. Johnston
LAT
125a
Medieval Latin
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Surveys medieval Latin prose and poetry from the fourth to the fourteenth centuries and their influence on subsequent English, French, and Italian literature. Materials will be studied in the original Latin and English. Offered on request.
Ms. Johnston or Ms. Walker
(200 and above) Primarily for Graduate Students
LAT
298a
Independent Study
Staff