Latin (LATIN)

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Courses

LATIN 1 Elementary Latin 4 Units

Beginners' course.

LATIN 2 Elementary Latin 4 Units

Beginners' course.

LATIN 10 Intensive Elementary Latin 8 Units

Beginners' course (intensive); equivalent to Latin 1-2.

LATIN 15 The Latin Workshop 10 Units

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.

LATIN 40 Intermediate Latin Prose Composition 4 Units

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

LATIN 99 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units

LATIN 100 Republican Prose 4 Units

Selected readings in Caesar, Sallust, and Cicero; some review of grammar.

LATIN S100X Republican Prose 4 Units

Selected readings in Caesar, Sallust, and Cicero; some review of grammar.

LATIN 101 Vergil 4 Units

Selected readings from Vergil.

LATIN 102 Lyric and Society 4 Units

Reading in Catullus and Horace, and of short selections from prose literature of their periods.

LATIN 115 Roman Drama 4 Units

Readings in Comedy (Plautus and/or Terence) and Tragedy (Seneca).

LATIN 116 Lucretius, Vergil's <Georgics> 4 Units

Readings in the and the .

LATIN 119 Latin Epic 4 Units

Readings in Latin epic poetry.

LATIN 120 Latin Prose to AD 14 4 Units

Readings in Latin prose authors such as Sallust, Cicero, Caesar, and Livy.

LATIN 121 Tacitus 4 Units

Readings in Tacitus.

LATIN 122 Post-Augustan Prose 4 Units

Readings in Seneca, the younger Pliny, and other prose writers.

LATIN 140 Medieval Latin 4 Units

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

Study of texts selected from the early, high, or late medieval periods. Focuses on prose.

LATIN H195 Honors Course in Latin 4 Units

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 H195A Honors Course in Latin 2 - 4 Units

This is a two-semester Honors course [H195A-B]. The work for the Honors course may either build on work in a previous upper division course used in fulfillment of the Latin major or may be a newly conceived project. 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 H195B Honors Course in Latin 4 Units

This is a two-semester course [H195A-B]. The work for the Honors course may either build on work in a previous upper division course used in fulfillment of the Latin major or may be a newly conceived project. 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

LATIN 199 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units

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