Provisional University Bulletin (2026-2027)

See Classical Studies.

LAT 10a Beginning Latin

Three class hours per week.

An introduction to Latin grammar, based on Latin authors. Usually offered every year.

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.

LAT 30a Intermediate Latin: Literature
[ fl ]

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.

LAT 97a Senior Essay

LAT 98a Directed Reading

Generally reserved for those students who have exhausted regular course offerings. Usually offered every year.

LAT 98b Directed Reading

Yields half-course credit. Generally reserved for those students who have exhausted regular course offerings. Usually offered every year.

LAT 99d Senior Research

For seniors writing an honors thesis under direction. Usually offered every year.

LAT 115a Roman Drama
[ fl hum ]

Prerequisite: LAT 30a or equivalent.

Selected plays of Plautus and Terence, in Latin. Usually offered every fourth year.
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LAT 118a Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry
[ fl hum ]

Prerequisite: LAT 30a or equivalent.

Selections from Catullus, Horace, Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid, in Latin. Usually offered every third year.

LAT 119b Ovid
[ fl hum ]

Prerequisite: LAT 30a or equivalent.

Selections from Ovid's mythological-poetic history of the universe, in Latin. Usually offered every fourth year.

LAT 120a Vergil
[ fl hum ]

Prerequisite: LAT 30a or equivalent.

Selections from Vergil's Eclogues, Georgics, and the Aeneid in Latin. Usually offered every third year.

LAT 121b Roman Historians
[ fl hum ]

Prerequisite: LAT 30a or the equivalent.

Explores the writing of history in ancient Roman. Readings are drawn from a range of Roman historians including but not limited to Livy, Caesar, Tacitus, and Sallust. Usually offered every third year.

LAT 125a Later and Medieval Latin
[ fl hum ]

Prerequisite: LAT 30a or equivalent.

A reading of Latin texts from Late Antiquity and the Medieval period. Authors vary per offering. Usually offered every fourth year.

LAT 130b Roman Letters
[ fl hum ]

Prerequisite: LAT 30a or the equivalent.

Explores Roman letters as one of the most diversified literary forms in the ancient world. Readings are drawn from a range of authors and texts, including Cicero, Ovid, Seneca, Pliny the Younger, and the Vindolanda tablets. Usually offered every third year.

LAT 298a Independent Study