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Language Courses

Latin

Course offerings:

LATN 101-102 Elementary Latin
Continuous course; 4 lecture hours. 4-4 credits.
First semester: a study of the Latin language with emphasis on the Latin elements found in English. Latin vocabulary.
Second semester: introduction to Latin authors and related aspects of Roman civilization.

LATN 201-202 Readings in Latin Literature
Continuous course; 3 lecture hours. 3-3 credits.
Brief grammar review with a parallel study of political and literary trends and developments as found in several of the major Latin writers. First semester: prose, with emphasis on Cicero, Pliny the Younger and Sallust. Second semester: poetry, with selected readings from Catullus, Tibullus, Ovid and Vergil.


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  School of World Studies
  Date Last Modified: August 29, 2007
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