Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2014-2015
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 skills. Cross-list: MDEM 101.
LATI 102 - ELEMENTARY LATIN II
Long Title: ELEMENTARY LATIN II
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
May not be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Graduate
Prerequisite(s): LATI 101 OR MDST 101
Description: Continuation of LATI 101 and MDST 101. Graduate students require permission of instructor. Cross-list: MDEM 102.
LATI 104 - AP/OTH CREDIT ELEMENTARY LATIN
Long Title: AP/OTH CREDIT IN ELEMENTARY LATIN
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Transfer
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation.
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
Description: Review of grammar and readings in Latin prose. Cross-list: MDEM 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 OR MDST 211
Description: Readings in Virgil. Cross-list: MDEM 212.
LATI 204 - AP/OTH CREDIT INTERM. LATIN
Long Title: AP/OTH CREDIT IN INTERMEDIATE LATIN
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Transfer
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation.
LATI 205 - MEDIEVAL LATIN SAINTS' LIVES
Long Title: MEDIEVAL LATIN SAINTS' LIVES
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): LATI 101 AND (LATI 102 OR MDST 102)
Description: This course will introduce selected lives from St. Anthony to St. Francis of Assisi which will be read in Latin; grammar review, as necessary. Focus will be on continuity and change in the Hagiographic tradition and representation of saint in relation to community. Intermediate Level Latin. Cross-list: MDEM 254, RELI 254, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LATI 505. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LATI 205 if student has credit for LATI 505.
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
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: We will read both prose and poetry written by exiled persons, with careful attention to the literary treatment of exile in Roman culture.
LATI 302 - ADVANCED LATIN
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. D1 credit.
LATI 303 - ADV LATIN: PLAUTUS & TERENCE
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 and Terence's Adelphoe. We will consider the background of Greek comedy and the contemporary social situation in Rome.
LATI 304 - ADV. LATIN: ROMAN EPIC
Long Title: ADVANCED LATIN: ROMAN EPIC
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Readings in Latin epic poetry, from the Republic through late antiquity. Topics will include the nature of the epic genre, the development of Roman epic, the styles of individual epic poets, and the works' political and cultural contexts.
LATI 305 - ADVANCED LATIN: HORACE
Long Title: ADVANCED LATI: HORACE
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Readings from Horace.
LATI 306 - OVID'S METAMORPHOSES
Long Title: ADVANCED LATIN: OVID'S METAMORPHOSES
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Readings in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Repeatable for Credit.
LATI 307 - LATIN POETRY OF LATE ANTIQUITY
Long Title: LATIN POETRY OF LATE ANITQUITY
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Readings from Latin poetry, ca. 300 CE - ca. 600 CE. Topics include the relationship of this poetry to its classical past, its identity as "late" literature, the historical contexts and purposes of the texts and the development of a Christian Latin poetic tradition.
LATI 308 - LUCRETIUS
Long Title: LUCRETIUS
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): LATI 202
Description: This course will study the great philosophical poem of the Roman Epicurean Lucretius, De Rerum Nature (On the Nature of Things). In addition to selections from the Latin, students will read the entire poem in English translation as well as scholarship on the poem from a variety of perspectives.
LATI 311 - LATIN PASTORAL POETRY
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 readings drawn from Virgil's ECLOGUES, Calpurnius Siculus, Nemesianus, and early Christian pastoral. Topics will include the history of pastoral, the nature of the genre, the politics of the poems, and their intertextuality. Later history of pastoral, particularly in English tradition, will also be examined.
LATI 312 - OVID: AMORES
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.
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
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.
LATI 314 - TACITUS
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 milieux, and the political color of his work.
LATI 315 - SENECAN TRAGEDY
Long Title: SENECAN TRAGEDY
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Selections from the tragedies of Seneca, some of the wittiest and goriest poetry to survive from antiquity. Topics will include Senecan style, the performance contexts of his plays, the history of Roman tragedy, Seneca's sources, and the poet's legacy in literary history.
LATI 316 - READINGS IN VIRGIL'S AENEID
Long Title: READINGS IN VIRGIL'S AENEID
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Advanced study of Virgil's great Roman epic. Areas of interest will include Virgil's poetic technique, the history of ancient epic, and Roman politics and society, particularly in the Augustan Age. Since different books of the Aeneid will be read in different semesters, the course is repeatable for credit. Repeatable for Credit.
LATI 317 - READINGS IN LIVY
Long Title: READINGS IN LIVY
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Selections from the Roman historian Livy. Close attention will be given to Livy's prose style and narrative techniques. We will also examine his historical method, the Augustan context of his work, and the information he provides as a source on Roman history. Repeatable for Credit.
LATI 491 - DIRECTED READING
Long Title: DIRECTED READING
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Independent Study
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.
LATI 492 - DIRECTED READING
Long Title: DIRECTED READING
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Independent Study
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Independent work for qualified juniors and seniors in genres or authors not presented in other upper level courses. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.
LATI 503 - DIRECTED READING GRAD STUDENTS
Long Title: DIRECTED READING FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Independent Study
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Graduate level, independent reading course. Topics vary. Offered in the fall semester. Repeatable for Credit.
LATI 504 - GR STUDENTS DIRECTED READING
Long Title: DIRECTED READING FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Independent Study
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Class(es):
Graduate
Description: Graduate level, independent reading course. Topics vary. Offered in the spring semester. Repeatable for Credit.
LATI 505 - MEDIEVAL LATIN SAINTS' LIVES
Long Title: MEDIEVAL LATIN SAINTS' LIVES
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): LATI 101 AND (LATI 102 OR MDST 102)
Description: This course will introduce selected lives from St. Anthony to St. Francis of Assisi which will be read in Latin; grammar review, as necessary. Focus will be on continuity and change in the Hagiographic tradition and representation of saint in relation to community. Intermediate Level Latin. Substantial research paper treating a vita in its historical context. Cross-list: RELI 554, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LATI 205. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LATI 505 if student has credit for LATI 205.