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Key - General Education Requirements, School of Arts and Sciences
G Seminar in Composition EX Creative Expression L Foreign Language
W Writing Intensive PH Philosophy COM International/Foreign Culture: Comparative
Q Quantitative and Formal Reasoning SS Social Science GLO International/Foreign Culture: Global
LIT Literature HS Historical Change REG International/Foreign Culture: Regional
MA The Arts NS Natural Sciences IFN International/Foreign Culture: Non-Western
Key - Basic Skills Requirements, School of Arts and Sciences
I   Workshop in Composition
A  Algebra
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LATIN Courses 2104

0021 Beginning Latin 2 L    5 cr.
11364 AT MoTuWeThFr 10:00 AM-10:50 AM 00314 BELLH     No recitation. Combined w/ LATIN 1021      Enroll Limit 15 Korzeniewski,Andrew J. 

Students will continue to enlarge their storehouse of vocabulary and grammatical structures and to improve their reading skills. Through close reading and analysis of selections from Latin prose students will develop a sense for Latin word order and sentence structure and for characteristic forms of thought and expression.

Prerequisite(s): Latin 0011 or equivalent.

This course is offered at least once a year.

0021 Beginning Latin 2 L    5 cr.
11366 AT MoTuWeThFr 11:00 AM-11:50 AM 00129 CL     No recitation. Combined w/ LATIN 1021      Enroll Limit 15 Thorne,Nicholas Robert 

Students will continue to enlarge their storehouse of vocabulary and grammatical structures and to improve their reading skills. Through close reading and analysis of selections from Latin prose students will develop a sense for Latin word order and sentence structure and for characteristic forms of thought and expression.

Prerequisite(s): Latin 0011 or equivalent.

This course is offered at least once a year.

0220 Intermediate Latin: Verse   3 cr.
15122 AT TuTh 09:30 AM-10:45 AM 00312 CL     No recitation.   Enroll Limit 15 Smethurst,Mae J 

This course introduces Latin epic with the example of Virgil's Aeneid from the time of Augustan Rome. Students will translate, scan, and discuss the epic poem in class.

Prerequisite(s): Latin 0210 or equivalent.

This course is offered at least once a year.

1021 Beginning Latin 2 L    5 cr.
11368 AT MoTuWeThFr 11:00 AM-11:50 AM 00129 CL     No recitation. Combined w/ LATIN 0021      Enroll Limit 5 Thorne,Nicholas Robert 

Students will continue to enlarge their storehouse of vocabulary and grammatical structures and to improve their reading skills. Through close reading and analysis of selections from Latin prose students will develop a sense for Latin word order and sentence structure and for characteristic forms of thought and expression.

Prerequisite(s): none

This course is offered at least once a year.

1021 Beginning Latin 2 L    5 cr.
11374 AT MoTuWeThFr 10:00 AM-10:50 AM 00314 BELLH     No recitation. Combined w/ LATIN 0021      Enroll Limit 5 Korzeniewski,Andrew J. 

Students will continue to enlarge their storehouse of vocabulary and grammatical structures and to improve their reading skills. Through close reading and analysis of selections from Latin prose students will develop a sense for Latin word order and sentence structure and for characteristic forms of thought and expression.

Prerequisite(s): none

This course is offered at least once a year.

1032 Medieval Latin Authors 2   3 cr.
38682 AT TuTh 04:00 PM-05:15 PM 03501 WWPH     No recitation. Combined w/ LATIN 1033      Enroll Limit 20 Venarde, B. 

Intermediate-level Latin course in the form of a survey of the riches of late antique and medieval Latin literature from the 4th century to the 12th. Readings drawn from one or more anthologies of medieval Latin will include a variety of subjects and both prose and poetry. There will be some attention to linguistic differences between the medieval Latins and their classical antecedents. Most of the course and the class meetings will be concerned with reading medieval Latin and situating it in historical, literary and cultural contexts. For undergraduate and graduate students with a least three (and preferably four) semesters of college Latin or the equivalent. NB: Those who have already taken Medieval Latin as Latin 1030 are encouraged to enroll in this course because the material will be different.

Prerequisite(s): Latin 0210 or Latin 0220 or equivalent or with instructors permission. Permission number would need generated with instructor permission.

This course is offered infrequently.

1033 Medieval Latin Authors 2   1 cr.
38683 AT TuTh 04:00 PM-05:15 PM 03501 WWPH     No recitation. Combined w/ LATIN 1032      Enroll Limit 20 Venarde, B. 

This is the Writing Practicum for the course Medieval Latin Authors 2.

Prerequisite(s): Latin 0210 or Latin 0220 or eqivalent or with instructors permission. Permission number would be needed with instructor permission.

This course is offered infrequently.

1410 Latin Reading: Satire   3 cr.
37287 SE3 Mo 03:00 PM-05:25 PM 01518 CL     No recitation. Combined w/ LATIN 2110      Enroll Limit 6 Possanza,D Mark 

Selected readings in Martial’s Epigrams and Juvenal’s Satires. Martial and Juvenal had a keen eye for the faults, foibles and frailties of their fellow human beings and an unforgiving poetic genius for exposing and skewering them. We will focus on the formal features and themes of epigram and satire, and on aspects of Roman imperial society, which provided these two poets with ample material for trenchant wit and ridicule.

Prerequisite(s): At least one semester of Latin at the 1300 level.

This course is offered infrequently.

1700 Latin Prose Composition   3 cr.
38616 AT TuTh 11:00 AM-12:15 PM 01518 CL     No recitation.   Enroll Limit 12  

Through exercises in composing sentences and short paragraphs students will gain a deeper understanding of Latin syntax and a more active command of Latin idiom. (If you don’t know your forms, start reviewing now.) In addition, we will read and analyze specimen passages taken from Latin prose authors to develop a sharper appreciation of Latin stylistics.

Prerequisite(s): At least one semester of Latin at the 1300 level.

This course is offered at least once a year.

2110 Latin Reading: Satire   3 cr.
37288 SE3 Mo 03:00 PM-05:25 PM 01518 CL     No recitation. Combined w/ LATIN 1410      Enroll Limit 6 Possanza,D Mark 

Selected readings in Martial’s Epigrams and Juvenal’s Satires. Martial and Juvenal had a keen eye for the faults, foibles and frailties of their fellow human beings and an unforgiving poetic genius for exposing and skewering them. We will focus on the formal features and themes of epigram and satire, and on aspects of Roman imperial society, which provided these two poets with ample material for trenchant wit and ridicule.

Prerequisite(s): At least one semester of Latin at the 1300 level

This course is offered infrequently.

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