25 courses with the subject LA, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
LA 100Beginning Latin through Drama3
People naturally absorb language through seeing, doing, listening and speaking, rather than by reading textbooks. All students in this exploratory class will get a dramatic introduction to Latin by taking part, every class day, in creative exercises presenting famous stories from Classical mythology while internalizing the Latin scripts that go with them. Most scripts will be based on Ritchie's 20th-century classic Latin reader Fabulae Faciles ("Easy Stories"). Language exercises will move students toward Novice-level proficiency in Latin according to national standards articulated by ACTFL, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Graded assignments will usually involve group work on scenes for in-class presentation in Latin, or individual journaling about the process in English. This class has no prerequisites; no prior knowledge of Latin, or any experience with foreign languages or drama, is assumed.
LA 101Fundamentals of the Latin Language - Level I3
This and each of the subsequent Latin 100 & 200-level courses will cover the entirety of Hans Ørberg's Familia Romana textbook, according to the Spoken Latin Teaching Pedagogy that VSI is uniquely qualified to provide. Students will begin to speak and understand Latin with the same efficacy as in other modern languages. Intended as a fall-spring sequence. Offered every year.
LA 102Fundamentals of the Latin Language - Level 23
This and each of the subsequent Latin 100 & 200-level courses will cover the entirety of Hans Ørberg's Familia Romana textbook, according to the Spoken Latin Teaching Pedagogy that VSI is uniquely qualified to provide. Students will begin to speak and understand Latin with the same efficacy as in other modern languages. Intended as a fall-spring sequence. Offered every year.
Propaedeutic Year (PPY) Latin is a 6-credit accelerated introductory Latin course for incoming SJCS seminarians, designed to fulfill the credit requirements for the BAC Classical Languages Minor before the beginning of the second year of studies. Students attend class every weekday; they participate in an immersion weekend in the fall term and a full week of immersion in the summer following the end of the spring semester. The curriculum is based on Hans Oerberg’s classic textbook Lingua Latina per se Illustrata, chapters 1-33.
This course is the continuation of LA105. Enrollment is restricted to SJCS seminarian students in the Propaedeutic Year of seminary studies. Prerequisite: LA105 Propaedeutic Year Latin I
This course is the continuation of LA106. Enrollment is restricted to SJCS seminarian students in the Propaedeutic Year of seminary studies. Prerequisite: LA106 Propaedeutic Year Latin I
LA 201Fundamentals of the Latin Language - Level 33
This and each of the subsequent Latin 100 & 200-level courses will cover the entirety of Hans Ørberg's Familia Romana textbook, according to the Spoken Latin Teaching Pedagogy that VSI is uniquely qualified to provide. Students will begin to speak and understand Latin with the same efficacy as in other modern languages. Intended as a fall-spring sequence. Offered every year.
LA 202Fundamentals of the Latin Language - Level 43
This and each of the subsequent Latin 100 & 200-level courses will cover the entirety of Hans Ørberg's Familia Romana textbook, according to the Spoken Latin Teaching Pedagogy that VSI is uniquely qualified to provide. Students will begin to speak and understand Latin with the same efficacy as in other modern languages. Intended as a fall-spring sequence. Offered every year.
Read from the Latin originals of works by SS. Ambrose, Augustine, Leo, and Gregory the Great, and learn to speak Latin by discussing them. This class will expand participants' firsthand knowledge of essential Patristic and later texts, while offering guided practice in grammar and vocabulary through practical use.
Writing is a uniquely powerful tool for fixing knowledge in memory. This course will take the student through a series of guided practice sessions in writing Latin. Students will quickly review noun and verb forms, then produce Latin of their own, featuring the most important syntactic features of the language. Active exercises will help them internalize the mechanics of indirect discourse, purpose and result clauses, etc. Original writing in Latin, plus translation exercises into Latin from English, will make up the bulk of class assignments. This course is introductory, suitable for students who have studied Latin grammar but have never taken a prose composition class before.
This class will serve as an introduction to the Latinity of the Vulgate Bible, with a special focus on texts which figure prominently in the Church's liturgical prayer, both in the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours, including passages from the Psalms and Gospels, and some of the most important stories from the Old Testament. The students will also become familiar with these texts by preparing brief presentations on specific aspects of them, and their role in the Church's liturgical, theological and artistic tradition. The list of subjects for these presentations will be prepared ahead of time by the instructor.
Conducted in Latin as the language of instruction, this course features writing and speaking exercises with discussion of readings in Christian and Classical Latin selected by students in consultation with the Instructor. Grammar review and vocabulary expansion will be included on an as-needed basis according to the students’ requirements for continued growth.
Conducted in Latin as the language of instruction, this course features writing and speaking exercises with discussion of readings in Christian and Classical Latin selected by students in consultation with the Instructor. Grammar review and vocabulary expansion will be included on an as-needed basis according to the students’ requirements for continued growth.
The canonical classical Latin poets (Virgil, Ovid, Lucretius...), with particular attention to prosody (the more common Latin meters: hexameter, elegiac couplet).
A broader selection of prose texts, for example the correspondence and philosophical writings of Cicero (de Amicita, de Senectute, etc.) and the historians (Sallust, Suetonius, Livy)
This course introduces students to the Ordinary of the Mass as a monument of Ecclesiastical Latinity, or as French Patrologist Henri-Irénée Marrou put it, "the literary masterpiece of Late Antiquity." Our study will involve close attention to its development, its sources (Biblical and otherwise), its style, and its vocabulary.
This course introduces students to the proper texts of a selection of Masses from both the proper of the liturgical seasons and of the feasts of Saints. Our study will involve close attention to their development, sources (Biblical and otherwise), style, and vocabulary.
