Latin (LATIN)
LATIN 1201 - Elementary Latin I (4 Credits)
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 syntax; and written homework, quizzes, tests, and oral drills.
Distribution Requirements: (FL-AG), (OCL-IL)
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
LATIN 1202 - Elementary Latin II (4 Credits)
This course is a continuation of LATIN 1201, using readings from various authors and prepares students for LATIN 1205.
Prerequisites: LATIN 1201 or equivalent.
Distribution Requirements: (OCL-IL)
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
LATIN 1205 - Intermediate Latin I (3 Credits)
Introduces students to reading original Latin text. Covers complex syntax and reviews the grammar presented in LATIN 1202, LATIN 1204.
Prerequisites: LATIN 1202, LATIN 1204 or placement by departmental exam.
Distribution Requirements: (FL-AG), (OCL-IL)
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
LATIN 2201 - Latin Prose (3 Credits)
Intermediate readings of Latin prose. Topics change by instructor.
Prerequisites: LATIN 1202, LATIN 1204, or placement by departmental exam.
Distribution Requirements: (ALC-AS, FLOPI-AS), (FL-AG)
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022
LATIN 2209 - Latin Poetry (3 Credits)
Intermediate readings of Latin poetry. Topics change by instructor.
Prerequisites: LATIN 1202, LATIN 1204, or placement by departmental exam.
Distribution Requirements: (ALC-AS, FLOPI-AS), (CA-AG, LA-AG)
Last Four Terms Offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018
LATIN 3203 - Roman Poetry (4 Credits)
Topics vary by instructor.
Prerequisites: Two 2000-level Latin courses.
Distribution Requirements: (ALC-AS, FLOPI-AS), (CA-AG, LA-AG)
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2021
LATIN 3217 - Having Fun with the Latin Language: Putting Classic Rock into Classical Latin (1 Credit)
Last Four Terms Offered: Fall 2023
LATIN 3220 - Rapid Reading in Latin (4 Credits)
Topics vary by instructor.
Prerequisites: Two 2000-level Latin courses.
Distribution Requirements: (ALC-AS, FLOPI-AS), (CA-AG, LA-AG)
Last Four Terms Offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
LATIN 3286 - Independent Study in Latin, Undergraduate Level (1-4 Credits)
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 their advisor and the faculty member who has agreed to direct the study. To be approved by the DUS.
Exploratory Studies:
(CU-UG)
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023 LATIN 4213 - Survey of Medieval Latin Literature (3 Credits)
Crosslisted with MEDVL 4103
The Survey is designed to introduce participants to characteristic genres and discourses of Medieval Latin. The traditional focus is prose style and its implications for audience and genre from classical rhetoric to the humanist revival of a 'classical' style. A basic foundation in Latin morphology, syntax, and vocabulary is assumed. Intermediate and advanced topics in post-Classical idioms and syntax will be treated as they arise, with the goal of improving the facility with which students approach, read, and, especially, understand Latin writings from the Middle Ages. In addition to studying the practice(s) of style and Latin prose composition, modern approaches to stylistic analysis, and the intersections of style and identity, participants will gain a working knowledge of medieval theories of prose style as articulated in treatises on the genera dicendi, ars dictaminis, and ars praedicandi, as well as medieval (and modern) discussions of cursus and clausulae.
Distribution Requirements: (ALC-AS, FLOPI-AS), (CA-AG, LA-AG)
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2018, Spring 2016, Fall 2012
LATIN 4223 - Topics in Medieval Latin Literature (3 Credits)
Crosslisted with MEDVL 4201
This topics seminar will explore genres, forms, and theories of Medieval Latin poetry in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries (with a few forays into the fourteenth century and beyond). Topics include biblical and liturgical verse, historical epic, philosophical and didactic poetry, satire and parody, the ars versificandi, and historical/contemporary critical approaches to Medieval Latin poetics (Faral, Raby, Norberg, Zumthor, Leupin, Tilliette, Kay, et al.).
Prerequisites: a solid foundation in Latin grammar and morphology.
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2020, Spring 2014, Fall 2011
LATIN 4452 - Latin Comparative Grammar (3 Credits)
Crosslisted with LING 4452
The prehistory and evolution of the sounds and forms of Classical Latin as reconstructed by comparison with the other Indo-European languages.
Prerequisites: thorough familiarity with morphology of classical Latin.
Exploratory Studies:
(EUAREA)
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2020, Fall 2013 LATIN 5211 - Elementary Latin I (4 Credits)
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 syntax; and written homework, quizzes, tests, and oral drills.
Enrollment Information: Enrollment limited to: graduate students.
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
LATIN 5212 - Elementary Latin II (4 Credits)
Continuation of LATIN 5211, using readings from various authors; prepares students for LATIN 5215.
Prerequisites: LATIN 5211 or equivalent.
Enrollment Information: Enrollment limited to: graduate students.
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
LATIN 5215 - Intermediate Latin I (3 Credits)
Introduces students to reading original Latin text. Covers complex syntax and reviews the grammar presented in LATIN 5212, LATIN 5214.
Prerequisites: LATIN 5212, LATIN 5214, or placement by departmental exam.
Enrollment Information: Enrollment limited to: graduate students.
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
LATIN 5221 - Latin Prose (3 Credits)
Intermediate readings of Latin prose. Topics change by instructor.
Prerequisites: LATIN 5212, LATIN 5214, or placement by departmental exam.
Enrollment Information: Enrollment limited to: graduate students.
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022
LATIN 5229 - Latin Poetry (3 Credits)
Intermediate readings of Latin poetry. Topics change by instructor.
Prerequisites: LATIN 1202, LATIN 1204, or placement by departmental exam.
Enrollment Information: Enrollment limited to: graduate students.
Last Four Terms Offered: Fall 2023
LATIN 5230 - Rapid Reading in Latin (4 Credits)
Topics vary by instructor.
Prerequisites: Two 5220-level Latin courses.
Enrollment Information: Enrollment limited to: graduate students.
Last Four Terms Offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
LATIN 5233 - Roman Poetry (4 Credits)
Topics vary by instructor.
Prerequisites: Two 5220-level Latin courses.
Enrollment Information: Enrollment limited to: graduate students.
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2022
LATIN 6201 - Advanced Readings in Latin Literature (3 Credits)
Topic: Semantics of prose.
Prerequisites: undergraduates must have had two semesters of 3000-level Latin.
Last Four Terms Offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2020
LATIN 6202 - Advanced Readings in Latin Literature (3 Credits)
Topics for this course vary by instructor.
Prerequisites: undergraduates must have had two semesters of 3000-level Latin.
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
LATIN 6212 - Advanced Readings in Latin and Greek (3 Credits)
Crosslisted with GREEK 6112
The course will prepare students to read the texts that are on the Classics Reading List (https://classics.cornell.edu/phd#reading-lists).
Enrollment Information: Enrollment limited to: graduate students.
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2015
LATIN 6216 - Advanced Latin Prose Composition (3 Credits)
This advanced Latin prose composition course is for graduate students.
Enrollment Information: Enrollment limited to: graduate students.
Last Four Terms Offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2021, Spring 2018, Spring 2012
LATIN 7201 - Latin for Teachers of Latin (3 Credits)
Focusing on the language itself, this course is a systematic treatment of the phonological, morphological and syntactic structure of Classical Latin intended to give prospective teachers of the language additional tools for explaining its forms and constructions to students in the elementary course. It has three parts: (1) Why certain apparent irregularities of individual forms and paradigms are really regular, (2) Hints on how to present various paradigms and constructions to beginners and (3) Practice in teaching parts of Latin morphology and syntax to a class of beginners. NB additional coaching in Latin pedagogy is provided in CLASS 7345, Graduate TA Training.
Enrollment Information: Enrollment limited to: graduate students.
Last Four Terms Offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2017, Fall 2015
LATIN 7213 - Survey of Medieval Latin Literature (3 Credits)
Crosslisted with MEDVL 6103
The Survey is designed to introduce participants to characteristic genres and discourses of Medieval Latin. The traditional focus is prose style and its implications for audience and genre from classical rhetoric to the humanist revival of a 'classical' style. A basic foundation in Latin morphology, syntax, and vocabulary is assumed. Intermediate and advanced topics in post-Classical idioms and syntax will be treated as they arise, with the goal of improving the facility with which students approach, read, and, especially, understand Latin writings from the Middle Ages. In addition to studying the practice(s) of style and Latin prose composition, modern approaches to stylistic analysis, and the intersections of style and identity, participants will gain a working knowledge of medieval theories of prose style as articulated in treatises on the genera dicendi, ars dictaminis, and ars praedicandi, as well as medieval (and modern) discussions of cursus and clausulae.
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2018, Spring 2016, Fall 2012
LATIN 7222 - Latin Paleography (3 Credits)
Crosslisted with MEDVL 6102
This course is an introduction to and survey of Latin scripts from Roman antiquity through the early Renaissance, with an emphasis on the identification, localization, and reading of scripts. Class meetings will combine practical study of Latin scripts through medieval manuscripts in the Kroch library, facsimiles, and online digital reproductions with instruction in the cultural-historical background to manuscript production, library practices, and bibliographical resources. Students will also be introduced to basic techniques for codicological description and the principles of textual criticism.
Prerequisites: a solid understanding of Latin grammar and morphology.
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2016
LATIN 7223 - Topics in Medieval Latin Literature (3 Credits)
Crosslisted with MEDVL 6201
This topics seminar will explore genres, forms, and theories of Medieval Latin poetry in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries (with a few forays into the fourteenth century and beyond). Topics include biblical and liturgical verse, historical epic, philosophical and didactic poetry, satire and parody, the ars versificandi, and historical/contemporary critical approaches to Medieval Latin poetics (Faral, Raby, Norberg, Zumthor, Leupin, Tilliette, Kay, et al.).
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2020, Spring 2014, Fall 2011
LATIN 7262 - Latin Philosophical Texts (1-2 Credits)
Crosslisted with PHIL 6020, RELST 6020, MEDVL 6020
Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts.
Exploratory Studies:
(EUAREA)
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023 LATIN 7271 - Graduate Seminar in Latin (3 Credits)
Topics for this course vary by instructor.
Enrollment Information: Enrollment limited to: graduate students.
Last Four Terms Offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2017, Fall 2014
LATIN 7272 - Graduate Seminar in Latin (3 Credits)
Topic: Roman ways of reading.
Enrollment Information: Enrollment limited to: graduate students.
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2019
LATIN 7452 - Latin Comparative Grammar (3 Credits)
Crosslisted with LING 6452
The prehistory and evolution of the sounds and forms of Classical Latin as reconstructed by comparison with the other Indo-European languages.
Prerequisites: thorough familiarity with morphology of classical Latin.
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2020
LATIN 7920 - Independent Study in Latin (1-4 Credits)
Independent study for graduate students only.
Last Four Terms Offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023