Summer Intensive Intermediate Latin
Course Code
LATN 20123 10
Course Description
Summer Intermediate Latin combines extensive reading of texts with a comprehensive review of classical grammar and syntax; it prepares students for advanced courses in Latin and for the use of Latin texts in the course of their research.
Texts studied are taken from one or more representative and important authors, examples of which include Cicero, Sallust, Vergil, Ovid, Seneca, Pliny, and Augustine. The course also involves the intensive review of basic grammar and regular practice with reading at sight.
The program includes synchronous meetings five days a week as well as daily asynchronous assignments. It combines daily synchronous and asynchronous activities.
Students are responsible for considerable amounts of class preparation in the evenings, requiring a full-time commitment for the duration of the course. Summer Intermediate Latin equips students to continue with advanced coursework or independent reading in Latin in all its varieties.
Summer Intermediate Latin corresponds to a full year's worth of instruction at the University of Chicago.
Course Criteria
Summer Intensive Intermediate Latin is an intensive course that requires a full-time commitment on the part of the student, with assignments due and activities scheduled every day. It also expects that students will undertake independent review and memorization in the evenings. Students who wish to take Intensive Summer Intensive Intermediate Latin must have completed at least one year of Latin. The course assumes an understanding of grammar such as found in e.g. Moreland and Fleischer’s Latin: An Intensive Course, Keller and Russell’s Learn to Read Latin or Wheelock’s Latin. In addition to this knowledge, some prior reading experience is strongly encouraged
This course is primarily comprised of undergraduate students. A select number of places are reserved for advanced high school students.
The cost of this course for pre-college students is $8,550
Instructor(s)
Staff