Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2005-2006
LATI 101 - ELEMENTARY LATIN I
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.
LATI 102 - ELEMENTARY LATIN II
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.
LATI 201 - INTERMEDIATE LATIN I: PROSE
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.
LATI 202 - INTERMEDIATE LATIN II
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 Vergil. Cross-list: MDST 212.
LATI 301 - ADV LATIN:LIT OF EXILE
Long Title: ADVANCED LATIN: LITERATURE OF EXILE IN THE ROMAN TRADITION
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
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.
LATI 302 - ADVANCED LATIN: ROMAN EPIC
Long Title: ADVANCED LATIN: ROMAN EPIC
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: The course will read early fragments of epic verse and selections from Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Statius. Topics will include the nature of the epic genre, the development of the Roman epic and its relation to the Greek tradition, the styles of the individual epic poets, and the works' political and historical contexts.
LATI 303 - ADV LATIN: PLAUTUS & TERENCE
Long Title: ADVANCED LATIN: PLAUTUS AND TERENCE
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
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.
LATI 311 - LATIN PASTORAL POETRY
Long Title: LATIN PASTORAL POETRY
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
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.
LATI 312 - ADVANCED LATIN: OVID
Long Title: ADVANCED LATIN: OVID
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Survey of Ovid's elegiac and epic poetry with emphasis on the Metamorphoses.
LATI 313 - CICERO AND CATULLUS
Long Title: CICERO AND CATULLUS: LITERATURE AND SOCIETY IN THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
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.
LATI 314 - TACITUS
Long Title: TACITUS
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Selections from the Roman historian Tacitus. We will focus on Tacitean style, his historiographical methods, his cultural and political milieux, and the political color of his work.
LATI 491 - DIRECTED READING
Long Title: DIRECTED READING
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Class(es):
Senior
Junior
Description: Independent work for qualified juniors and seniors in genres or authors not presented in other upper level courses. Repeatable for Credit.
LATI 492 - DIRECTED READING
Long Title: DIRECTED READING
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Class(es):
Senior
Junior
Description: Independent work for qualified juniors and seniors in genres or authors not presented in other upper level courses. Repeatable for Credit.