Latin (LATN)

LATN 1010:   Introduction to Latin I  
Classics  
Essentials of grammar, training in translation. Students who count Lat 111 towards graduation may not also count Lat 101 or Lat 102.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
LATN 1020:   Introduction to Latin II  
Classics  
Students gain essentials of grammar, including training in translation. Students who count Lat 111 toward graduation may not also count Lat 101 or Lat 102.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
min grade of C- in LATN 1010.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
LATN 1110:   Intensive Intro. to Latin  
Classics  
This course is an intensive introduction to Latin grammar and translation. It is the equivalent of Latin 101 and 102, and prepares students to continue to Latin 201. Students who count LAT 111 toward graduation may not also count Lat 101 or Lat 102.  
6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Discussion  
LATN 2010:   Intermediate Latin I  
Classics  
This course is a continuation of grammar with selections from representative authors.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
min grade of C- in LATN 1020 or LATN 1110.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
LATN 2020:   Intermediate Latin II  
Classics  
This course is a continuation of grammar with selections from representative authors.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
min grade of C- in LATN 2010.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
LATN 2990:   Readings in Advanced Latin  
Classics  
Students read and analyze substantial selections from a small number of Latin authors. Students may not receive credit for Lat 299 as well as Lat 201. Z grade.  
3 - 6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Discussion  
LATN 3210:   Latin Prose  
Classics  
Selected readings in Latin prose, with special attention paid to style. Readings may be supplemented by exercises in Latin prose composition.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
(LATN 2020 or LATN 2990) and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 3220:   Roman Historians  
Classics  
Selected readings of major historians such as Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
(LATN 2020 or LATN 2990) and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 3230:   Roman Oratory  
Classics  
Selected readings from the speeches or rhetorical treatises of Cicero or others.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
(LATN 2020 or LATN 2990) and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
LATN 3290:   Medieval Latin  
Classics  
Selected readings in Medieval Latin.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
(LATN 2020 or LATN 2990) and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 3310:   Latin Poetry  
Classics  
Selected readings in Latin poetry, with special attention paid to meter.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
LATN 2020 and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
LATN 3320:   Vergil  
Classics  
Selected readings from the Aeneid.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
(LATN 2020 or LATN 2990) and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 3330:   Ovid  
Classics  
Selected readings from the Metamorphoses or other works of Ovid.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
(LATN 2020 or LATN 2990) and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 3340:   Roman Lyric  
Classics  
Selected readings from the lyric poets, such as Catullus and Horace.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
(LATN 2020 or LATN 2990) and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 3350:   Roman Elegy  
Classics  
Selected readings from the elegiac poets, such as Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid, and Sulpicia.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
(LATN 2020 or LATN 2990) and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 3370:   Roman Comedy  
Classics  
Selected readings from the plays of Plautus or Terence.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
(LATN 2020 or LATN 2990) and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 3380:   Roman Satire  
Classics  
Selected readings from the satire of Horace, Juvenal, Persius or Martial.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
(LATN 2020 or LATN 2990) and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 3400:   Literature of the Neronian Age  
Classics  
Selected readings of literature composed in the reign of the emperor Nero, such as the works of Lucan, Persius, Petronius and Seneca the Younger. Special attention given to literary history.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
(LATN 2020 or LATN 2990) and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 3410:   Literature of the Roman Empire  
Classics  
Selected literature composed at the height of the Roman imperial period, 70-180 C.E., with special attention given to literary history. Authors may include Martial, Juvenal, Tacitus, Suetonius, Statius, Valerius Flaccus, and others.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
(LATN 2020 or LATN 2990) and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 3420:   Early Roman Literature  
Classics  
This course will cover selected readings from the earliest period of Roman literature, with special attention given to literary history. Authors may include Plautus, Terence, Cato, Lucilius, and others, including fragmentary authors and anonymous early inscriptions.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
(LATN 2020 or LATN 2990) and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 3430:   Lit. of the Late Republic  
Classics  
This course will cover selected readings of literature composed in the Late Republic, with special attention given to literary history. Authors may include Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Lucretius, Sallust, and others.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
(LATN 2020 or LATN 2990) and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 3440:   Latin Epigraphy  
Classics  
This course focuses on the Latin of inscriptions, investigating a wide variety of inscriptions, their context, and the diversity of people who inscribed them. Students gain experience in translating several classes of Latin epigraphical texts, and in editing epigraphical texts according to standard editorial conventions.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
min grade of C- in LATN 2020 and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 5070:   Special Reading  
Classics  
Extensive reading of authors not included in specific courses above, arranged according to needs of individual students. (May be repeated for additional reading and credit).  
1 - 3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study  
LATN 5570:   Special Reading  
Classics  
Extensive reading of authors not included in specific courses above, arranged according to needs of individual students. (May be repeated for additional reading and credit).  
1 - 3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study  
LATN 6010:   Writers of the Augustan Age  
Classics  
The chief authors of the period and the political and literary background that influenced them.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 6210:   Latin Prose  
Classics  
Advanced reading in Latin prose, with special attention paid to style. Readings may be supplemented by advanced exercises in Latin prose composition.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
LATN 3210 and LATN 3310.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 6222:   Roman Historians  
Classics  
Advanced readings of historical writers such as Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, with special attention paid to historiography.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
LATN 3210 and LATN 3310.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 6230:   Roman Oratory  
Classics  
Advanced reading from the speeches or rhetorical treatises of Cicero or others.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
LATN 3210 and LATN 3310.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 6290:   Medieval Latin  
Classics  
The development of secular and religious prose and poetry. Particular attention to the beginnings of modern biography, drama, rhyming verse, and historical writing.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
LATN 3210 and LATN 3310.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 6310:   Latin Poetry  
Classics  
Advanced reading in Latin poetry, with special attention to meter.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
LATN 3210 and LATN 3310.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 6320:   Vergil  
Classics  
Advanced readings from the Aeneid, Bucolics or Georgics of Vergil.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
LATN 3210 and LATN 3310.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 6330:   Ovid  
Classics  
Advanced readings in the works of Ovid, such as the Metamorphoses, Fasti, Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
LATN 3210 and LATN 3310.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 6340:   Roman Lyric  
Classics  
Advanced readings in the Lyric poets, such as Catullus and Horace.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
LATN 3210 and LATN 3310.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 6350:   Roman Elegy  
Classics  
Advanced readings from the elegiac poets, such as Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid, and Sulpicia.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
LATN 3210 and LATN 3310.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 6370:   Roman Comedy  
Classics  
Advanced readings from the plays of Plautus and Terence.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
LATN 3210 and LATN 3310.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 6380:   Roman Satire  
Classics  
Advanced readings from the satires of Horace, Juvenal, Persius or Martial.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
LATN 3210 and LATN 3310.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 6400:   Literature of the Neronian Age  
Classics  
Selected readings of literature composed in the reign of the emperor Nero, such as the works of Lucan, Persius, Petronius, and Seneca the Younger. Special attention given to literary history and to current scholarship.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 6410:   Literature of the Roman Empire  
Classics  
Selected readings in literature composed at the height of the Roman imperial period, 70-180 C.E., with special attention given to literary history and to current scholarship. Authors may include Martial, Juvenal, Tacitus, Suetonius, Statius, Valerius Flaccus, and others.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 6420:   Early Roman Literature  
Classics  
Selected readings from the earliest period of Roman literature, with special attention given to literary history and to current scholarship. Authors may include Plautus, Terence, Cato, Lucilius, and others, including fragmentary authors and anonymous early inscriptions.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 6430:   Lit. of the Late Republic  
Classics  
Selected readings of literature composed in the Late Republic, with special attention given to literary history and to current scholarship. Authors may include Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Lucretius, Sallust, and others.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
LATN 6910:   Directed Reading in Latin Lit.  
Classics  
Reading and study, arranged according to the needs of individual students. May be repeated once for a maximum of 6 hours.  
1 - 3 credits  
Prerequisites
LATN 3210 and LATN 3310.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study  
LATN 6997A:   Thesis  
Classics  
No grade  
1 - 12 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Thesis