May 15, 2024  
2022-2023 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2022-2023 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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CLA 521 - ADVANCED LATIN COMPOSITION AND READING


College of Arts & Sciences

Credit(s): 3

This course is devoted to the study of advanced Latin composition, concentrating on the compound sentence, the structure of subordination in Latin, and the Latin rhetorical expression. Students will become acquainted with masterpieces of Latin prose from all periods and different genres, including excerpts from Cicero, Caesar, Cornelius Nepos, Livy, Seneca, Tacitus, Augustine, Ambrose, Jerome, Lactantius, Abelard, Erasmus of Rotterdam. Toward the end of the course, the students will read Cicero’s Pro Archia poeta in its entirety, and will discuss the origin and the meaning of humanitas.

Prereq: Successful completion of CLA 501 or permission of the instructor.
Approved for Distance Learning.



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