Syllabus of Classes

Latin for younger students

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:42:35 -0600

Latin for younger students is aimed at children who have never taken Latin before, though all are welcome. It is intended for students over ten years old. We will be using a text that I have written for younger students.

Class goals:
• Learning about the Latin noun
• Learning how to read in a foreign language
• Exposure to eight authentic Latin texts

Prerequisite concepts:
• None

Technical requirements:
• Web browser and high-speed internet connection
• Ability to scan and e-mail documents
• Microphone or webcam
• Free Skype account

Times and costs:
• 1 to 1:50 pm, Central time, Tuesday or Thursday
• $300 for full year, includes text
• 5 student minimum

Advanced Latin Ovid (Fall) and Cicero (Spring)

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:37:52 -0600

Advanced Latin is for students who want to read authors of Latin literature in the original language. Fall semester will focus on reading Ovid’s poetry and learning how Latin poetry works. Spring semester will be a look at Roman oratory with Cicero’s First Catilinarian Oration.

Class goals:
• Learning how Latin poetry works through meter and poetic devices (Ovid)
• Reading selections from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and examining their cultural impact through history (Ovid)
• Grammar review of advanced topics (Ovid)
• Learning about the politics of the Roman republic (Cicero)
• Introduction to Roman oratory and rhetorical devices (Cicero)

Prerequisite concepts:
• Two years of high-school Latin

Technical requirements:
• Web browser and high-speed internet connection
• Ability to scan and e-mail documents
• Ability to generate PDF documents
• Microphone or webcam
• Free Skype account

Times and costs:
• 2 to 2:50 pm, Central time, Tuesday and Thursday
• $700 for full year or $400 per semester, does not include text
• 2 student minimum

Latin 2

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:11:07 -0600

Latin 2 is a class aimed at high-school aged students who have already taken one year of Latin. Our text for the year will be Latin for the New Millennium from Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers.

Class goals:
• Learning advanced structures of Latin
• Understanding those structures in Latin
• Overview of medieval and Renaissance literature in Latin from Bede to Copernicus and all stops in between
• Reading Nepos’s Life of Atticus
• Overview of early Western civilization

Prerequisite concepts:
• Full declension patterns of nouns and adjectives
• Hic, ille and other pronouns
• Full understanding of verbs in indicative mood

Technical requirements:
• Web browser and high-speed internet connection
• Ability to scan and e-mail documents
• Microphone or webcam
• Free Skype account

Times and costs:
• 4 to 4:50 pm, Central time, Tuesday and Thursday
• $400, does not include text
• 4 student minimum

Latin 1

Wed, 9 Dec 2009 16:23:36 -0600

Latin 1 is a class aimed at high-school aged students who have never taken Latin before. Our text for the year will be Latin for the New Millennium from Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers.

Class goals:
• Learning the basic structures of Latin
• Understanding those structures in Latin
• Overview of classical literature from Terence to Boethius and all stops in between
• Overview of mythology and Roman civilization

Technical requirements:
• Web browser and high-speed internet connection
• Ability to scan and e-mail documents
• Microphone or webcam
• Free Skype account

Times and costs:
• 3 to 3:50 pm, Central time, Tuesday and Thursday
• $400, does not include text
• 4 student minimum