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LATN UN
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LATN UN1101ELEMENTARY LATIN I4.00
For students who have never studied Latin. An intensive study of grammar with reading of simple prose and poetry
Prerequisites: LATN V1101. Prerequisites: LATN UN1101. A continuation of LATN UN1101, including a review of grammar and syntax for students whose study of Latin has been interrupted
Spring 2026: LATN UN1121 Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment LATN 1121 001/00194 M W F 1:10pm - 2:25pm 225 Milbank Hall Darcy Krasne 4.00 7/18 Fall 2026: LATN UN1121 Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment LATN 1121 001/10332 M W 4:10pm - 6:00pm 616 Hamilton Hall Steven Brandwood 4.00 7/20
Prerequisites: LATN V1101-V1102, or LATN V1121, or the equivalent. Prerequisites: LATN UN1101 ＆ UN1102 or LATN UN1121 or equivalent. Selections from Catullus and Cicero
Prerequisites: LATN V1201 or the equivalent. Prerequisites: LATN UN2101 or the equivalent. Selections from Ovids Metamorphoses and from Sallust, Livy, Seneca, or Pliny
Prerequisites: LATN V1202 or the equivalent. Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Selections from Vergil and Horace. Combines literary analysis with work in grammar and metrics
Prerequisites: LATN W2202 or equivalent This course is intended to complement Latin V3012: Augustan Poetry in providing students I a transition between the elementary, grammatical study of Latin texts to a more fluent understanding of complex literary style. Latin V3013 will largely concentrate on different styles of writing, particularly narrative, invective, and argument. Text will be drawn primarily from Ciceros orations, with some readings form his rhetorical works
Prerequisites: four semesters of college Latin or the instructor's permission. Prerequisites: four semesters of college Latin or the instructors permission. This course offers an introduction to medieval Latin literature in conversation with its two most important traditions, classical literature and early Christian culture. Illustrative passages from the principal authors and genres of the Latin Middle Ages will be read, including Augustine and biblical exegesis; Ambrose and poetry; Bede and history and hagiography; Abelard and Heloise and the 12th century Renaissance. The course is suitable both for students of Latin and of the Middle Ages
LATN UN3035Poetry as Neurosis: Lucan’s Bellum Civile3
This course is an intensive study of Lucan’s revolutionary and enigmatic Bellum Civile, the epic masterpiece of the Neronian age, which was admired and imitated all through the history of Western culture by authors such as Dante, Montaigne, Milton, Voltaire, Goethe, Shelley, and Baudelaire among others. The course will examine major controversies concerning the form and meaning of the poem, with special emphasis on the poetic tension created by the narrator’s neurotic personality. The narration of the 49 BCE civil war between Caesar and Pompey is for Lucan the pretext for an original and intensely personal reflection on themes such as political oppression, the role of the individual in society, nihilism, self-destructiveness, mental disorder, and artistic creation. The poem will be analyzed from various critical perspectives that include rhetoric, intertextuality, deconstruction, reception theory, and psychoanalysis; no previous knowledge of any of these methodologies is required. Although an acceptable knowledge of Latin (intermediate or above) is assumed, the primary focus of this course is literary and sociological interpretation rather than linguistic competence. In addition to the Latin reading assignments, the poem will also be read entirely in English translation, allowing students to comprehend the whole while they engage with particular sections in the original language. The assignment for each class will include: (1) approximately five hundred lines to be read in English translation; (2) translation of short Latin passages, whose size may be adapted to the level of the class/student; (3) secondary readings.
Prerequisites: LATN V1202 or the equivalent. Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit
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may be repeated for credit Fall 2026: LATN UN3309 Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment LATN 3309 001/00203 T Th 8:40am - 9:55am 405 Ba
Prerequisites: LATN V1202 or the equivalent. Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit
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LATN UN
Credits (min)
3
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3
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Repeatable
may be repeated for credit Spring 2026: LATN UN3310 Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment LATN 3310 001/11023 T Th 8:40am - 9:55am 613
This course is limited to students in the Postbaccalaureate program. The intensive reading of a series of Latin texts, both prose and verse, with special emphasis on detailed stylistic and grammatical analysis of the language.
This seminar aims to provide students in the post-baccalaureate certificate program with opportunities 1) to (re-)familiarize themselves with a selection of major texts from classical antiquity, which will be read in English, 2) to become acquainted with scholarship on these texts and with scholarly writing in general, 3) to write analytically about these texts and the interpretations posed about them in contemporary scholarship, and 4) to read in the original language selected passages of one of the texts in small tutorial groups, which will meet every week for an additional hour with members of the faculty
Prerequisites: junior standing. Required for all majors in Classics and Classical Studies. The topic changes from year to year but is always broad enough to accommodate students in the languages as well as those in the interdisciplinary major. Past topics include: love, dining, slavery, space, power
