Latin (LAT)

LAT 101. Elementary Latin I. 3 Credit Hours.

Elementary vocabulary, grammar and reading.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Fall & Spring.

LAT 102. Elementary Latin II. 3 Credit Hours.

Continuation of LAT 101.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Fall & Spring.

LAT 103. Intensive Elementary Latin. 3 Credit Hours.

The equivalent of LAT 101, LAT 102, and half of LAT 201 in one semester; students are prepared to enter LAT 201 or 300-/400-level courses depending on their performance in the class. Combined with LAT 625. In addition to the three class hours per week, there is one additional hour (TBA) for drills and tests.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Spring.

LAT 201. Intermediate Latin I. 3 Credit Hours.

Translation and grammatical analysis of selected texts from Latin authors.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Fall & Spring.

LAT 202. Intermediate Latin II. 3 Credit Hours.

Introduction to reading Latin poetry. Students will read selections from the Aeneid, with emphasis on Virgil's language and meter, as well as the ancient epic tradition. Latin 202 prepares students for 300- and 400-level Latin poetry courses.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Fall & Spring.

LAT 203. Ovid's Metamorphoses. 3 Credit Hours.

Readings in Latin from Ovid's Metamorphoses, including Apollo and Daphne, Echo and Narcissus, Midas and more.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Spring Even Years.

LAT 301. Catullus. 3 Credit Hours.

An advanced Latin course on the works of the Roman poet Catullus. Students will read almost all of the poems in the Catullan corpus, and be introduced to the related secondary literature, covering topics such as ancient sexuality, invective and obscenity, the figure of the mistress in Latin love poetry, the arrangement of poems within a poetic book, meter, and the textual tradition.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Spring Even Years.

LAT 302. Petronius. 3 Credit Hours.

An advance Latin prose reading course on Petronius’ Satyricon, a mysterious and fragmented novel dating from the time of the decadent emperor Nero. Trimalchio’s Dinner-Party, the central section of the work, forms the focus of the course. It is an account if a dinner hosted by a wealthy ex-slave, and can be read as a critique of the excesses of the Neronian age.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Offered by Announcement Only.

LAT 311. Cicero: Orations. 3 Credit Hours.

Readings from the speeches of Cicero, with an emphasis on syntax, vocabulary, rhetorical theory and practice, and the historical situation of the speeches.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Offered by Announcement Only.

LAT 321. Virgil. 3 Credit Hours.

An advanced reading course in the poems of Virgil.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Offered by Announcement Only.

LAT 322. Martial Epigrams. 3 Credit Hours.

Examines selected works of the first-century CE poet Martial, the acknowledged master of the verse epigram, considering his writing both as poetry (within the Greek and Roman traditions) and as social and political commentary.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Offered by Announcement Only.

LAT 323. Seneca. 3 Credit Hours.

Examines in Latin select writings of the Roman philosopher and statesman Lucius Annaeus Seneca.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Offered by Announcement Only.

LAT 401. Special Topics in Latin Literature. 3 Credit Hours.

The course is designed for the study of individual authors or topics in Roman thought, literature, and culture at an advanced level, not normally covered elsewhere in the course directory.
Prerequisite: LAT 201.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, & Summer.

LAT 402. Special Topics in Latin Literature. 3 Credit Hours.

This course will address a specific author, topic, or text (appearing as a subtitle). Analogous to REL 404-409 courses. [this will vary each time the course is offered]
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, & Summer.

LAT 403. Special Topics in Latin Literature. 3 Credit Hours.

This course will address a specific author, topic, or text (appearing as a subtitle) Analogous to REL 404-409 courses. [this will vary each time the course is offered]
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, & Summer.

LAT 404. Special Projects in the Literature and Culture of Ancient Rome. 3 Credit Hours.

[This course will address a specific project in Classics (appearing as a subtitle) Analogous to REL 407-409 this will vary each time the course is offered]
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, & Summer.

LAT 406. Special Projects in the Literature and Culture of Ancient Rome. 3 Credit Hours.

This course will address a specific project in Classics (appearing as a subtitle). Analogous to REL 407-409.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, & Summer.

LAT 407. Supervised Reading in Classical Latin. 3 Credit Hours.

Variable subject matter determined by instructor and student. Analogous to REL 401-403.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, & Summer.

LAT 408. Supervised Reading in Classical Latin. 3 Credit Hours.

Variable subject matter determined by instructor and student. Analogous to REL 401-403.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, & Summer.

LAT 409. Supervised Reading in Classical Latin. 3 Credit Hours.

Variable subject matter determined by instructor and student. Analogous to REL 401-403.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, & Summer.

LAT 411. Horace. 3 Credit Hours.

Readings in the odes, epodes, satires and epistles of Horace.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Fall & Spring.

LAT 421. Roman Epic. 3 Credit Hours.

Studies from Roman epic poetry of Lucretius and Virgil to Lucan and Statius.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Fall & Spring.

LAT 422. Lucretius. 3 Credit Hours.

Detailed treatment of the Latin philosophical poet Lucretius and his lone surviving poem, De rerum natura.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Fall & Spring.

LAT 431. Livy. 3 Credit Hours.

Readings from the Roman historian Livy.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Fall & Spring.

LAT 432. Suetonius. 3 Credit Hours.

Readings in Latin from Suetonius' "Lives of the Twelve Caesars," a set of gossipy, sometimes racy, always dramatic biographies of Julius Caesar and the first eleven emperors of ancient Rome.
Prerequisite: LAT 201.
Components: SEM.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Offered by Announcement Only.

LAT 491. Directed Readings. 1-3 Credit Hours.

Content to be determined by faculty member and registering student(s).
Components: THI.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, & Summer.

LAT 625. Elementary Latin for Graduate Research. 0 Credit Hours.

Grammatical structures, verb tenses, and word families necessary for reading texts with minimal use of a dictionary. May fulfill the Foreign Language Reading Competency Requirement (consult your graduate advisor).
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Offered by Announcement Only.

LAT 691. Directed Reading in Latin for Graduate Students. 3 Credit Hours.

Independent study in Roman thought, literature, and culture.
Requisite: Graduate Standing.
Components: LEC.
Grading: GRD.
Typically Offered: Fall & Spring.