Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: ELEMENTARY LATIN I

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the fundamentals of Latin grammar with emphasis on acquisition of reading skill. Cross-list: MDST 101.

Long Title: ELEMENTARY LATIN II

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LATI 101

Description: Continuation of LATI 101 and MDST 101. Cross-list: MDST 102.

Long Title: AP CREDIT IN ELEMENTARY LATIN

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Transfer

Credit Hours: 3

Description: For AP credit in elementary Latin.

Long Title: INTERMEDIATE LATIN I: PROSE

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LATI 101 AND LATI 102

Description: Review of grammar and readings in Latin prose. Cross-list: MDST 211.

Long Title: INTERMEDIATE LATIN II

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LATI 201

Description: Reading in Virgil. Cross-list: MDST 212.

Long Title: AP CREDIT IN INTERMEDIATE LATIN

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Transfer

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: For AP credit in intermediate Latin.

Long Title: ADVANCED LATIN: LITERATURE OF EXILE IN THE ROMAN TRADITION

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of Latin works on exile, both prose and poetry. We will explore the actual circumstances on exile in ancient Rome, the consolation tradition and exile, relations between exile poetry and elegy, and how exile affected Roman notions of cultural and individual identity. Authors include Cicero, Ovid, and Seneca.

Long Title: ADVANCED LATIN

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: We will read Propertius' elegies with a view to understanding the poetics of Latin love elegy and the relationship of this genre to its social context.

Long Title: ADVANCED LATIN: PLAUTUS AND TERENCE

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: We will read, Plautus, Pseudolus, Terence, and Adelphoe. We will consider the background of Greek comedy and the contemporary social situation in Rome.

Long Title: ADVANCED LATI: HORACE

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Reading from Horace.

Long Title: LATIN PASTORAL POETRY

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of Latin pastoral, with its idyllic country sides, singing shepherds, and lovely laments. Readings drawn from Virgil's Eclogues, Calpurnius, Siculus, Nemesianus, and early Christian pastoral. Principal focus will be stylistic and thematic aspects of individual poets. Later history of pastoral, particularly in English tradition, will also be examined.

Long Title: OVID: AMORES

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Selections from Ovid's Amores, love poetry more about poetry than about love. Emphasis will lie on close translation and close interpretation of the poems.

Long Title: CICERO AND CATULLUS: LITERATURE AND SOCIETY IN THE ROMAN REPUBLIC

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: We will read Cicero's Pro Caelio and several of Catullus' longer poems as a vehicle for understanding politics and culture in the late Roman Republic.

Long Title: TACITUS

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Selections from the Roman historian Tacitus. We will focus on Tacitean style, his historiographical methods, his cultural and political milieu, and the political color of his work.

Long Title: SENECAN TRAGEDY

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Selections from the tragedies of Seneca, some of the wittiest and goriest poetry to survive from the antquity. Topics will include Senecan style, the performance contexts of his plays, the history of Roman tragedy, and Seneca's legacy in Literary history.

Long Title: DIRECTED READING

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Independent work for qualified juniors and seniors in genres or authors not presented in other upper level courses. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: DIRECTED READING

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Independent work for qualified juniors and seniors in genres or authors not presented in other upper level courses. Repeatable for Credit.