Undergraduate courses in Classics Latin

Vocabulary and syntax of the classical language, preparing students for readings including Cicero, Caesar, and Catullus. No previous knowledge of Latin is assumed. Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade.

3-5 units, Aut (Lain, N)

CLASSLAT 2. Beginning Latin: Vocabulary and Syntax

Continuation of CLASSLAT 1. Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade.

3-5 units, Win (Lain, N)

CLASSLAT 3. Beginning Latin: Vocabulary and Syntax

Continuation of CLASSLAT 2. Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade. CLASSLAT 3 fulfills the University language requirement.

3-5 units, Spr (Lain, N)

CLASSLAT 10. Intensive Beginning Latin

Equivalent to CLASSLAT 1, 2, 3; or 51 and 52. Goal is to read easy Latin prose and poetry by the end of the quarter. Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade. CLASSLAT 10 fulfills the University language requirement.

7-9 units, Sum (Staff)

CLASSLAT 101. Intermediate Latin: Introduction to Literature

Phonology, morphology, semantics, and syntax. Readings in prose and poetry. Analysis of literary language, including rhythm, meter, word order, narrative, and figures of speech.

3-5 units, Aut (Lain, N)

CLASSLAT 102. Intermediate Latin: Nepos and Catullus

Classics majors and minors must take this course for a letter grade. Translation of selections from Nepos' Life of Atticus and poems of Catullus. Emphasis is on syntax and grammar; questions concerning place and function of Catullus' erotic poetry and Nepos' biography in the late Roman Republic.

3-5 units, Win (Kaesser, C)

CLASSLAT 103. Intermediate Latin: Horace

His epodes, satires, epistles, and odes; literary and historical analysis. Classics majors and minors must take course for a letter grade. May be repeated for credit.

3-5 units, Spr (Jones, E)

CLASSLAT 107. Medieval Latin: Chronicles of the Wicked Emperor

Post-classical Latin through the 13th-century chronicle of Salimbene di Guido di Adam. His colorful portraits of the evil friar Elias and the wicked Emperor Frederick II, the stupor mundi. Focus is on reading the Latin text; attention to grammatical reviews. Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade. Prerequisite: one year of college Latin or equivalent.

3-5 units, Win (Janda, S)

CLASSLAT 111. Advanced Latin: Seneca's Letters

Literary, stylistic, and philosophical aspects of Seneca's episolary writings. Readings in Latin and English. Classic majors and minors must take course for a letter grade. May be repeated for credit.

3-5 units, Aut (Totten, D)

CLASSLAT 112. Advanced Latin: Virgils's Aeneid

Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade. May be repeated for credit.

3-5 units, Win (Barchiesi, A)

CLASSLAT 113. Advanced Latin: Latin Love Elegy

The erotic elegies of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid. Thematic focus on the representation of the city of Rome, and the role of the metropolis in the poems' erotic discourse. May be repeated for credit.

3-5 units, Spr (Kaesser, C)

CLASSLAT 175A. Latin Syntax

(Same as CLASSLAT 275A.) (First-year graduate students register for 275A,B.) Intensive review of Latin syntax. Begins Autumn Quarter and continues through the fifth week of Winter Quarter. See CLASSGEN 205A,B for supplemental courses. Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade. Prerequisite for undergraduates: three years of Latin.

4 units, not given this year

CLASSLAT 175B. Latin Syntax

(Same as CLASSLAT 275B.) (First-year graduate students register for 275A,B.) Intensive review of Latin syntax. Begins Autumn Quarter and continues through the fifth week of Winter Quarter. See CLASSGEN 205A,B for supplemental courses. Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade. Prerequisite for undergraduates: three years of Latin.

2 units, not given this year

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