Latin (LATIN)Arts and Sciences

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LATIN 1201
Elementary Latin I

Introductory course designed to prepare students to start reading Latin prose at the end of a year. The class moves swiftly and includes extensive memorization of vocabulary and paradigms; study of Latin ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5929 LATIN 1201   SEM 101

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  • Please contact Linda Brown (lmb296@cornell.edu) if this course is full and you would like to enroll.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5930 LATIN 1201   SEM 102

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  • Please contact Linda Brown (lmb296@cornell.edu) if this course is full and you would like to enroll.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6576 LATIN 1201   SEM 103

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  • Please contact Linda Brown (lmb296@cornell.edu) if this course is full and you would like to enroll.

LATIN 1204
Latin in Review

Provides a comprehensive but streamlined review of the forms and syntax typically covered in LATIN 1201 and LATIN 1202 or a comparable first-year Latin sequence. It begins with a quick review of the most ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5931 LATIN 1204   SEM 101

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  • Prerequisite: placement by departmental examination.

LATIN 1205
Intermediate Latin I

Introduces students to reading original Latin text (fall, Livy's Rome; spring, Cicero's Letters ). Covers complex syntax and reviews the grammar presented in LATIN 1202, LATIN 1204. view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5932 LATIN 1205   SEM 101

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  • Prerequisites: LATIN 1202, LATIN 1203, LATIN 1204 or placement by departmental exam. Please contact Linda Brown (lmb296@cornell.edu) if this course is full and you would like to enroll.

LATIN 2201
Latin Prose

 A reading of Sallust's Bellum Catilinae. We will read the text with close attention to both syntax and the astonishing events of the second Catilinarian conspiracy. view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  7167 LATIN 2201   LEC 001

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  • Prerequisite: LATIN 1205 or grade of A- or above in LATIN 1202, LATIN 1203, LATIN 1204 or placement by departmental exam. Please contact Linda Brown (lmb296@cornell.edu) if this course is full and you would like to enroll.

LATIN 2207
Conversational Latin I

Latin, like any language, is only mastered when one can speak it. Yet the goal of spoken Latin, unlike modern languages, is not conversational fluency. Rather, by formulating one's own thoughts into Latin ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  8435 LATIN 2207   SEM 101

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  • Prerequisite: LATIN 2201 or placement above LATIN 2201 on departmental exam.

LATIN 2209
Latin Poetry

No classical author has had a greater impact on how we think about love than Ovid. We'll read the Heroides, the Amores, the Ars Amatoria, the Remedia Amoris, as well as the Medicamina Faciei Femineae to ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: Didactic poetry/Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid & Manilius

  •  9603 LATIN 2209   SEM 101

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  • Prerequisite: LATIN 2201 or placement above LATIN 2201 on departmental exam.

LATIN 3220
Rapid Reading in Latin

Building on the intermediate level to acquire a literary vocabulary and syntactic structures, this course prepares students for independent reading of major authors entirely in the original language. It ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • Topic: Apuleius

  •  9334 LATIN 3220   SEM 101

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  • Prerequisite: One term of 2000-level Latin or permission of instructor.

LATIN 3286
Independent Study in Latin, Undergraduate Level

May be taken upon completion of one semester of work at the 3000-level. To be taken only in exceptional circumstances. Must be arranged by the student with his or her advisor and the faculty member who ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5974 LATIN 3286   IND 601

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    • Staff

  • Independent study at the 3000-level may be undertaken by undergraduates upon completion of one semester of work at the 3000-level in the relevant field and only with the permission of the director of undergraduate studies in cases of extraordinary circumstances.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

LATIN 6201
Advanced Readings in Latin Literature

The department teaches various topics which may vary by semester. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • Topic: Semantics of Prose

  •  9354 LATIN 6201   SEM 101

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  • Prerequisite: Two semesters of 3000-level Latin.

LATIN 7262
Latin Philosophical Texts

Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  7290 LATIN 7262   SEM 101

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    • TBA

    • MacDonald, S