Academic Bulletin 2020-22

least two years of high school Latin. Building on the foundation of their elementary studies, students will advance in active Latin fluency and read Latin literature of increasing sophistication. Readings will be drawn from Classical authors and the literary corpus of Christian Latin, e.g. Patristic, medieval or modern ecclesiastical Latin. N.B.: Successful completion of LATN 199 is a prerequisite for entrance into LATN 202. To enroll in LATN 199, students must complete a placement exam administered by the instructor of the class.

LATN 201-202 Intermediate Latin I & II Building on the foundation established in the first year, students will advance in Latin fluency and read Latin literature of increasing sophistication.

Courses will draw from Classical authors or the literary corpus of Christian Latin, e.g., Patristic, medieval, or modern ecclesiastical Latin. N.B.: Successful completion of LATN 102 or the permission of the Academic Dean is the prerequisite for entrance into LATN 201. Successful completion of LATN 201, LATN 199 or the permission of the Academic Dean is the prerequisite for entrance into LATN 202.

LATN 307 Latin Composition and Reading Training in written and spoken expression, emphasizing refinement of vocabulary and natural Latin syntax. The course emphasizes rudimentary original composition and conversation, rendering fine English prose into Latin, and rapid sight-reading.

LATN 311 The Augustan Age Advanced survey of the literature that formed the Augustan Age (1st century B.C.–1st century A.D.), including authors like Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, or Livy.

LATN 312 The Imperial Age Advanced study of poets and prose writers of the first and second centuries of the Christian era, including authors like Ovid, Seneca, Pliny, or Tacitus.

LATN/THEO 421 Patristic Latin Latin Fathers from the second to the eighth century will be read in this course. A variety of Patristic authors or topics may be examined in this course, or the focus may be on one major author or subject to be studied in depth. The focal author, work, or topic will vary each time the course is offered.

LATN 422 Medieval Latin A study of the literature of the Latin Middle Ages. Course readings can include a variety of authors and periods from the fifth through the fifteenth centuries and of genres like lyric poetry, Christian hymnody, historiography, hagiography, fable, or satire.

Selected authors of the late Renaissance like Erasmus or St. Thomas More may also be studied.

LATN/PHIL/THEO 423 Latin Readings in St. Thomas Aquinas An advanced study of Scholastic Latin through in-depth reading of selections from St. Thomas’s Summa Theologiae or other treatises. The selections studied will vary each time the course is offered.

LATN 490-499 Special Topics in Latin Language and Literature May include such topics as Roman comedy, Latin historiography, Patristic homiletics, Roman law, or other advanced study in Latin language or literature.

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