Latin
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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.
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
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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.
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.
(100-199) For Both Undergraduate and Graduate Students
LAT
115a
Roman Drama
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Selected plays of Plautus and Terence, in Latin. Usually offered every fourth year.
Staff
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.
LAT
119b
Ovid
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Selections from Ovid's mythological-poetic history of the universe, in Latin. Usually offered every fourth year.
LAT
120a
Vergil
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Selections from Vergil's Eclogues, Georgics, and the Aeneid in Latin. Usually offered every third year.
LAT
121b
Roman Historians
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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
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Prerequisite: LAT 30a.
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
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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.
(200 and above) Primarily for Graduate Students
LAT
298a
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