Courses
LATIN 1 Elementary Latin 4 Units
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
Beginners' course.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-4 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
LATIN 2 Elementary Latin 4 Units
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
Beginners' course.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 1 or equivalent
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-4 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
LATIN 10 Intensive Elementary Latin 8 Units
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
Beginners' course (intensive); equivalent to Latin 1-2.
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive 2 units of credit for Latin 10 after completing Latin 1 and no credit after completing Latin 1 and 2 or 15. A deficient grade in Latin 1, 2, or 15 may be removed by taking Latin 10.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
LATIN 15 The Latin Workshop 10 Units
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Summer 2017 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2015 10 Week Session
Designed for anyone who wishes to acquire reading knowledge of Latin; replaces 2+ semesters of traditional study. Lectures, discussions, drills and tutorial sessions on grammar and vocabulary; readings in Latin prose and poetry (e.g., Cicero and Ovid).
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Senior or graduate standing, or consent of instructor
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive five units of credit for Latin 15 after completing Latin 1, five units after completing Latin 2, and no credit after completing Latin 10.
Hours & Format
Summer: 10 weeks - 15 hours of lecture and 15 hours of recitation per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
LATIN 40 Intermediate Latin Prose Composition 4 Units
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
Development of skills in writing Latin prose and sight reading; review of grammar.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 2, 10, or 15
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
LATIN 98 Directed Group Study for Freshmen and Sophomores 1 - 4 Units
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor; 3.3 overall GPA; restricted to freshmen and sophomores
Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
LATIN 99 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and 3.3 overall GPA; restricted to freshmen and sophomores
Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
LATIN 100 Republican Prose 4 Units
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
Selected readings in Caesar, Sallust, and Cicero; some review of grammar.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 2, 10, or 15
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
LATIN S100X Republican Prose 4 Units
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Summer 1995 10 Week Session
Selected readings in Caesar, Sallust, and Cicero; some review of grammar.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 2, 10, or 15
Hours & Format
Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
Selected readings from Vergil.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 100
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
LATIN 102 Lyric and Society 4 Units
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016
Reading in Catullus and Horace, and of short selections from prose literature of their periods.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 100
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2009, Fall 2008
Readings in Comedy (Plautus and/or Terence) and Tragedy (Seneca).
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 101 or 102
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
LATIN 116 Lucretius, Vergil's Georgics 4 Units
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Fall 2016, Spring 2013, Fall 2011
Readings in the De Rerum Natura and the Georgics.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 101 or 102
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2014, Fall 2010
Readings in Latin epic poetry.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 101 or 102
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
LATIN 120 Latin Prose to AD 14 4 Units
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2009
Readings in Latin prose authors such as Sallust, Cicero, Caesar, and Livy.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 100 and either 101 or 102 or 140
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Spring 2012, Fall 2008, Fall 2005
Readings in Tacitus.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 100 and either 101 or 102 or 140
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
LATIN 122 Post-Augustan Prose 4 Units
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Spring 2013
Readings in Seneca, the younger Pliny, and other prose writers.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 100 and either 101 or 102 or 140
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
LATIN 140 Medieval Latin 4 Units
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
Introduction to medieval Latin: readings in prose and poetry from Cassiodorus to the Italian Renaissance, with emphasis on certain periods.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 100
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
LATIN 155A Readings in Medieval Latin 4 Units
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2010, Spring 2006
Study of texts selected from the early, high, or late medieval periods. Focuses on prose.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 100 or 101 or 102 or 140, or consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: 107.
LATIN H195 Honors Course in Latin 4 Units
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Appropriate language preparation and eligibility for admission to the honors program
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
LATIN H195A Honors Course in Latin 2 - 4 Units
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Spring 2016
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: A student must be a declared major in the Classics Department and in the subject in which Honors is done. A student must have a 3.6 overall GPA and a 3.6 GPA in the major courses
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. This is part one of a year long series course. A provisional grade of IP (in progress) will be applied and later replaced with the final grade after completing part two of the series. Final exam not required.
LATIN H195B Honors Course in Latin 4 Units
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Spring 2016
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: A student must be a declared major in the Classics Department and in the subject in which Honors is done. A student must have a 3.6 overall GPA and a 3.6 GPA in the major courses
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both parts of the series. Final exam not required.
LATIN 198 Directed Group Study for Advanced Undergraduates 1 - 4 Units
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Restricted to senior honor students
Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 2.5-7.5 hours of directed group study per week
8 weeks - 1.5-5.5 hours of directed group study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
LATIN 199 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units
Offered through: Classics
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Restricted to senior honor students
Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 2-7.5 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Latin/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.