The course seeks to assist students in improving their command of the Latin language:
Textbooks:
Course requirements:
Tentative outline of assignments:
Date | Topics discussed | Written Assignment due | Latin author for discussion |
January 12 | Basics of Latin prose | English samples | |
January 19 | Indirect discourse | Exercise 4A | Caesar |
January 26 | Relative clauses | Exercise 6A | Cicero |
February 2 | Expressions of purpose and result | Exercise 11A | Sallust |
February 9 | Independent uses of the subjunctive | Exercises 14A and 15A | Livy |
February 16 | Indirect questions | Exercise 19A | Tacitus |
February 23 | Expressions of mood and mode | Exercise 22A | TBA |
March 2 | Pronouns | Exercise 24A | Apuleius |
March 9 | SPRING BREAK | --- | --- |
March 16 | Participles | Exercises 45A, 46A | Ammianus Marcellinus |
March 23 | Ablative Absolute | Exercise 52A | Augustine |
March 30 | Conditional sentences | Exercise 53A | Ennodius |
April 6 | Causal clauses and expressions | Exercises 57A and 59A | Vulgate Bible |
April 13 | "Qui clauses" | Exercise 61A | Chancery style |
April 20 | Review of strategies | Exercises 63A and 64A | Erasmus |
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