Latin (LATIN)
LATIN 1 Elementary Latin 4 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 or 4 hours of lecture per week.
Beginners' course.
LATIN 2 Elementary Latin 4 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 to 4 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or equivalent.
Beginners' course.
LATIN 10 Intensive Elementary Latin 8 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Beginners' course (intensive); equivalent to Latin 1-2.
LATIN 15 The Latin Workshop 10 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of instruction per day for 10 weeks.
Prerequisites: Senior or graduate standing, or consent of instructor.
Designed primarily for prospective and beginning graduate students wishing to complete as early as possible the Latin requirement for doctoral work in Comparative Literature, English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish. Lectures, discussions, drills, and tutorial sessions on grammar and vocabulary; readings in Vergil, Cicero, and Horace. A grade of B enables the student to enroll directly in upper division Latin.
Instructor: Chairman
LATIN 40 Intermediate Latin Prose Composition 4 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 2, 10, or 15.
Development of skills in writing Latin prose and sight reading; review of grammar.
LATIN 98 Directed Group Study for Freshmen and Sophomores 1 - 4 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Directed group study per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor; 3.3 overall GPA; restricted to freshmen and sophomores.
Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
LATIN 99 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Zero hours of Independent study per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and 3.3 overall GPA; restricted to freshmen and sophomores.
Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
LATIN 100 Republican Prose 4 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 2, 10, or 15.
Selected readings in Caesar, Sallust, and Cicero; some review of grammar.
LATIN S100X Republican Prose 4 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 2, 10, or 15.
Selected readings in Caesar, Sallust, and Cicero; some review of grammar.
LATIN 101 Vergil 4 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100.
Selected readings from Vergil.
LATIN 102 Lyric and Society 4 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100.
Reading in Catullus and Horace, and of short selections from prose literature of their periods.
LATIN 115 Roman Drama 4 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 101 or 102.
Readings in Comedy (Plautus and/or Terence) and Tragedy (Seneca).
Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
LATIN 116 Lucretius, Vergil's Georgics 4 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 101 or 102.
Readings in the and the .
Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
LATIN 119 Latin Epic 4 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 101 or 102.
Readings in Latin epic poetry.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
LATIN 120 Latin Prose to AD 14 4 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100 and either 101 or 102 or 140.
Readings in Latin prose authors such as Sallust, Cicero, Caesar, and Livy.
Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
LATIN 121 Tacitus 4 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100 and either 101 or 102 or 140.
Readings in Tacitus.
Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
LATIN 122 Post-Augustan Prose 4 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100 and either 101 or 102 or 140.
Readings in Seneca, the younger Pliny, and other prose writers.
Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
LATIN 140 Medieval Latin 4 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100.
Introduction to medieval Latin: readings in prose and poetry from Cassiodorus to the Italian Renaissance, with emphasis on certain periods.
LATIN 155A Readings in Medieval Latin 4 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100 or 101 or 102 or 140, or consent of instructor.
Study of texts selected from the early, high, or late medieval periods. Focuses on prose.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: 107.
LATIN H195 Honors Course in Latin 4 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of work per week per unit.
Prerequisites: Appropriate language preparation and eligibility for admission to the honors program.
Largely independent study for one semester building on work in a previous upper-division course used in fulfillment of the Latin major; the work will result in the writing of a thesis, to be evaluated by an honors committee of three members. Written thesis due the Monday of the 13th week of the semester in which the course is taken.
LATIN 198 Directed Group Study for Advanced Undergraduates 1 - 4 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Directed group study per week for 15 weeks. 1.5 to 5.5 hours of Directed group study per week for 8 weeks. 2.5 to 7.5 hours of Directed group study per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Restricted to senior honor students.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
LATIN 199 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units
Department: Latin
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Independent study per week for 15 weeks. 2 to 7.5 hours of Independent study per week for 8 weeks. 2.5 to 10 hours of Independent study per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Restricted to senior honor students.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
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