Brock University Undergraduate Calendar

Latin Courses

LATI 1P01

Language (Introductory) I

Fundamentals of Latin. Selections from various Latin authors.

Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.

Note: students who have studied Latin before coming to university should identify themselves to the Department; such students might be eligible to enrol in LATI 2P01.

LATI 1P02

Language (Introductory) II

Fundamentals of Latin. Selections from various Latin authors.

Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.

Prerequisite: LATI 1P01 or OAC Latin.

LATI 2P01

Language and Literature I

Review of grammar. Intermediate selections from Latin authors.

Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.

Prerequisite: LATI 1P02 or OAC LATI or permission of the Department.

LATI 2P02

Language and Literature II

Further intermediate selections from Latin authors. Latin prose composition.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: LATI 2P01 or permission of the Department.

LATI 3V10-3V19

Latin Speeches, Letters and Dialogues

Selections from Cicero, Seneca and Pliny the Younger (authors and works might vary from year to year).

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: LATI 2P02 or permission of the instructor.

LATI 3V14

2003-2004: Cicero, in Catilinam I

LATI 3V90-3V99

Roman Lyric and Elegy

Selections from Horace, Catullus, Tibullus, Ovid and Propertius (authors and works might vary from year to year).

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: LATI 2P02 or permission of the instructor.

LATI 4V00-4V09

Roman Epic, Didactic and Pastoral Poetry

Selections from Vergil and Lucretius (authors and works might vary from year to year).

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: LATI 2P02 or permission of the instructor.

LATI 4V01

2003-2004: Vergil, Selections from Aeneid I-VI

LATI 4V10-4V19

Roman Historians and Biographers

Selections from Caesar, Sallust, Nepos, Livy, Tacitus and Suetonius (authors and works might vary from year to year).

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: LATI 2P02 or permission of the instructor.

LATI 4V13

2003-2004: Sallust, Bellum Catilinae

LATI 4V20-4V29

Roman Satire and Epigram

Selections from Juvenal, Martial and Petronius (authors and works vary from year to year).

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: LATI 2P02 or permission of the instructor.

LATI 4V90-4V99

Advanced Readings and Directed Research

Studies in Latin literature. Content to be determined by the interests of the student and availability of instructors.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: permission of the Department.