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

  •  6445 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

  •  6446 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

  •  7145 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: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6447 LATIN 1204   SEM 101

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  • Prerequisite: placement by departmental examination.

LATIN 1205
Intermediate Latin I

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  6448 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

Readings from Cicero's Philippics - his fierce denunciations of Mark Antony, delivered after the assassination of Julius Caesar. We will read these speeches with close attention to their rhetorical style ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  7796 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

Despite the tendency to construe analogies between Latin and mathematics, logic, and word games, Latin remains what it has always been: a language. This means that one cannot lay claim to a sufficient ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 15997 LATIN 2207   SEM 101

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  • Prerequisites: One year of college-level Latin or its equivalent.

LATIN 3204
Roman Prose

Readings from the letters of Cicero, Seneca, Pliny, and later authors with particular attention to Latin grammar, epistolary style, and historical context.  view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Letters of Cicero et al

  • 16000 LATIN 3204   SEM 101

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  • Prerequisite - 2000-level Latin class.

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

  •  6492 LATIN 3286   IND 601

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  • 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 7201
Latin for Teachers of Latin

A systematic treatment of the phonological, morphological and synyactic structure of Classical Latin intended to give prospective teachers of the language additional tools for explaining its forms and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Sat/Unsat

  • 16001 LATIN 7201   SEM 101

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LATIN 7262
Latin Philosophical Texts

Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  7929 LATIN 7262   SEM 101

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LATIN 7271
Graduate Seminar in Latin

Topic: The refugee problem in Classical Latin literature. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: The refugee problem in Classical Latin literature

  • 16002 LATIN 7271   SEM 101

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