Latin Course Listings

Lower Division Courses

1. Elementary Latin. (5)  Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. P/NP or letter grading.

1G. Elementary Latin for Graduate Students. (No credit)  Concurrently scheduled with course 14.

2. Elementary Latin. (5)  Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: course 1. P/NP or letter grading.

3. Elementary Latin. (5)  Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: course 2 or 14. P/NP or letter grading.

14. Elementary Latin: Intensive. (10)  Lecture, 10 hours. Declensions of nouns and adjectives, conjugations in indicative mood, and primary uses of subjunctive mood. Emphasis on development of ability to read easy selections of classical prose. P/NP or letter grading.

16. Intensive First-Year Latin. (12)  Lecture, 19 hours. Eight-week intensive introduction to Latin language equivalent to courses 1, 2, and 3. Offered in summer only. P/NP or letter grading.

20. Intermediate Latin. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 3 or 16. Formal review of Latin grammar and syntax and development of skills in reading original texts of Latin prose. Readings selected to introduce literature and culture of ancient Rome. P/NP or letter grading.

Upper Division Courses

100. Readings in Latin Prose and Poetry. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 3 or 16. Close study of a prose text supplemented with related readings in poetry. Attention to historical and cultural context. Course is normally requisite to other courses in the Latin 100 series. P/NP or letter grading.

101. Plautus. (4)  Requisite: course 100.

102. Terence. (4)  Requisite: course 100.

103. Lucretius. (4)  Requisite: course 100.

104. Ovid. (4)  Requisite: course 100.

105A. Beginning Vergil: Selections from Aeneid I-VI. (4)   Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 100. Reading of one or more books from first half of the Aeneid, designed especially for students with only limited experience in reading Latin poetry.

105B. Advanced Vergil. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 105A. Reading and discussion of Vergil's Eclogues, Georgics, and/or second half of the Aeneid. May be repeated for credit with change in readings. P/NP or letter grading.

106. Catullus. (4)  Requisite: course 100.

107. Horace. (4)  Requisite: course 100.

108. Roman Elegy. (4)  Requisite: course 100. Selections from Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius.

109. Roman Satire. (4)  Requisite: course 100. Selections from Epistles of Horace, Satires of Juvenal, and Epigrams of Martial.

110. Study of Latin Prose. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 100. Work in sight reading and grammatical analysis of classical prose texts; writing of classical prose.

111. Livy. (4)  Requisite: course 100.

112. Tacitus. (4)  Requisite: course 100.

113. Cicero: The Orations. (4)   Requisite: course 100.

114. Roman Epistolography: Cicero and Pliny. (4)  Requisite: course 100.

115. Caesar. (4)  Requisite: course 100.

116. Roman Novel. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 100. Reading and discussion of either Petronius' Satyricon or Apuleius' Metamorphoses and development of the genre of prose novel in antiquity. May be repeated for credit with change in author and text.

117. Sallust. (4)  Requisite: course 100.

118. Seneca. (4)  Requisite: course 100. Selection of Seneca's works read in Latin.

119A. Readings in Roman Prose. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 100. Readings of selected Roman prose author(s). Topics may vary from year to year and may be organized in terms of chronology (Republican or imperial), literary genre (Roman biography, antiquarian learning, or science), and/or theme. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

119B. Readings in Roman Poetry. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 100. Readings of selected Roman poetry author(s). Topics may vary from year to year and may be organized in terms of chronology (Republican or imperial), epic, lyric, elegy, and/or theme. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

120. The Vulgate. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 3. Reading of selected chapters of St. Jerome's translation of the Bible, with emphasis on unclassical features of the Latin.

121. Patristic Texts. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 100. Reading and discussion of one or more Latin patristic texts (especially works of Ambrose, Augustine, and/or Jerome), with emphasis on specific features of patristic, as opposed to classical, Latin.

130. Introduction to Postclassical Latin. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Basic competence in classical Latin required. Readings in postclassical Latin. P/NP or letter grading.

131. Postclassical Latin Prose. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Advanced readings of selected texts in postclassical Latin prose. P/NP or letter grading.

133. Postclassical Latin Poetry. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Advanced readings of selected texts in postclassical Latin poetry. P/NP or letter grading.

197. Individual Studies in Latin. (2 to 4)  Tutorial, two hours. Limited to juniors/seniors. Individual intensive study, with scheduled meetings to be arranged between faculty member and student. Assigned reading and tangible evidence of mastery of subject matter required. Individual contract required. P/NP or letter grading.

199. Directed Research in Latin. (2 to 4)  Tutorial, two hours. Limited to juniors/seniors. Supervised individual research or investigation under guidance of faculty mentor. Culminating paper or project required. Individual contract required. P/NP or letter grading.

Graduate Courses

200A-200B-200C. History of Latin Literature (4-4-4).  Lecture, three hours. Lectures on history of Latin literature, supplemented by reading of Latin texts in original language. Each course may be taken independently for credit. S/U or letter grading.

201. Roman Epic Tradition. (2 or 4)  Seminar, three hours. Close study of one epic poet other than Vergil (e.g., Ennius, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, Silius Italicus), with attention to the literary tradition of epic. May be repeated for credit with topic change. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

202. Seminar: Catullus. (2 or 4)  Detailed consideration of entire Catullan corpus. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

203A. Elegiac Poetry. (2 or 4)  S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

203B. Propertius. (2 or 4)  Course 203A is not requisite to 203B. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

204A-204B. Vergil's Aeneid. (2 or 4 each)   Course 204A is requisite to 204B. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

205A. Seminar: Vergil's Bucolics. (2 or 4)   S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

205B. Seminar: Vergil's Georgics. (2 or 4)   Course 205A is not requisite to 205B. Close reading of Vergil's text; careful evaluation of influential criticism on the poem, much of it recent; examination of the work's place within the tradition of rural poetry. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

206. Horace. (2 or 4)  S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

207. Roman Comedy. (2 or 4)  Seminar, three hours. Survey of history of Roman comedy. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

208. Ovid. (2 or 4)  Seminar, three hours. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

209. Seminar: Roman Satire. (2 or 4)  Detailed study of an individual satirist, with attention to his position in development of the satirical genre in Roman literature. Choice of author varies from year to year. Close study of the text, of characteristics of the writer as a social critic and artist, and of contemporary literary and social environment. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

210. Advanced Latin Prose Composition. (4)  Requisite: course 110.

211A-211B-211C. Seminars: Roman Historians. (2 or 4 each)  Study of considerable portions of writings of the following. Each course may be taken independently for credit. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading. 211A. Sallust; 211B. Livy; 211C. Tacitus.

215. Seminar: Roman Novel. (2 or 4)  Works such as Petronius' Satyricon and Apuleius' Metamorphoses: study of literary problems. May be repeated for credit with topic change. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

216. Roman Rhetoric. (2 or 4)  Seminar, three hours. Close study of one rhetorical text (e.g., Rhetorica ad Herennium, Cicero's de Oratore, Seneca's Controversiae or Suasoriae, Quintilian's Institutio), with attention to its place in rhetorical tradition. May be repeated with topic change. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

220. Cicero's Orations. (2 or 4)  Seminar, three hours. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

221A. Cicero's Philosophical Works. (2 or 4)  S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

221B. Cicero: De Natura Deorum. (2 or 4)  Course 221A is not requisite to 221B. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

222. Seminar: Roman Stoicism. (2 or 4)  Seminar, three hours. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

223. Lucretius. (2 or 4)  S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

224. Seneca. (2 or 4)  Seminar, three hours. Detailed study of one work of prose or poetry by the younger Seneca. May be repeated with topic change. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

229. Sight Translation. (2 or 4)  Discussion, three hours. Designed for graduate students. Practice in translation of previously unseen texts from a variety of authors and genres. Topics include peculiarities of style and vocabulary of the distinct genres, literary vs. scholarly translation, semantic properties of particular words and constructions. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

231A-231B. Seminars: Medieval Latin. (2 or 4 each)  Preparation: at least one upper division Latin course. Course 231A is not requisite to 231B. Studies in various areas of the language and literature of medieval Latin. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

232. Vulgar Latin. (2 or 4)  Lecture, three hours. History and characteristics of popular Latin; its development into early forms of the Romance languages. S/U or letter grading.

235. Late Latin Poetry. (2 or 4)  Seminar, three hours. Close study, with attention to literary and historical background, of work of one or several poets who flourished between the death of Ovid and fall of the Roman Empire. May be repeated with change in author.

236. Late Latin Prose. (2 or 4)  Seminar, three hours. Close study, with attention to literary and historical background, of work of one or several prose authors who flourished between the death of Tacitus and fall of the Roman Empire. May be repeated with change in author.

240. History of the Latin Language. (2 or 4)  Lecture, three hours. Development of Latin from the earliest monuments until its emergence in the Romance languages. S/U or letter grading.

242. Italic Dialects and Latin Historical Grammar. (2 or 4)  Lecture, three hours. Linguistic situation in early Italy. Readings in Oscan, Umbrian, and early Latin texts. Latin grammar in context of Italic and Indo-European linguistics. S/U or letter grading.

243. Seminar: Latin Paleography. (4)  Studies in development of book hand in Latin manuscripts earlier than the invention of printing.

245. Neo-Latin. (2 or 4)  Seminar, three hours. Preparation: at least two upper division Latin courses. Requisite: course 100. Survey of texts by one or more authors from Renaissance to the present, written on related topics. S/U or letter grading.

495. College Teaching of Latin. (2)  Seminar, to be arranged. Preparation: appointment as a teaching assistant. Methodology of instruction in conjunction with classroom practice. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.

596. Directed Individual Study or Research. (2 to 8)  Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading.

597. Study for M.A. Comprehensive Examination or Ph.D. Qualifying Examinations. (2 to 8)  Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading.

599. Research for Ph.D. Dissertation. (2 to 8)  Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading.