The Latin language is variously imagined in popular culture: as a masculine language, a language of imperialism, a classical language, a lingua franca, a dead language. No matter the preferred metaphor, Latin was among the first world languages in human history, and it has unmatched cultural significance in the West.
This course, planned to cover two semesters (Latin Intermediate I and II), is designed as a continuation of Latin Beginner I & II, and it is intended for all students who are equipped with essential Latin grammar (i.e., most of its morphology and some very basic syntax), no matter whether they have completed Latin Beginner at CEU or have gotten it elsewhere. The course aims to strengthen and expand their knowledge of Latin morphology and syntax, and of vocabulary, and to improve their reading and interpreting skills of Latin through grammar lectures and reading comprehension sessions. The class will be reading original Latin texts, classical and post-classical, of various authors, genre and registers.
The Latin Intermediate I, run in the Fall term, will start off with a thorough revision of Latin morphology that typically gets to be covered in the Latin Beginner I & II courses (all five declensions, nouns and adjectives; indicative active and passive voice of all three tenses built on the imperfectum stem (present, imperfect/preterit and future tense) in all four conjugations and in some irregular verbs, and present active and passive imperative; personal, demonstrative and relative pronouns) so to get the whole class on the same page before we move forward with new grammar. The Latin Intermediate I will cover the following new grammar: regular formation of adverbs; degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs, regular and special; the active and passive voice of the three tenses built on the perfectum stem in the indicative mood (perfect, pluperfect and future perfect).
The class meets once per week on Thursdays for a 100-minute session that will be divided into two distinct 50-minute parts: 1. the first part will be interactive practice session in which we will go through the assigned homework and revise the grammar covered the week before; 2. the second part will be lecture proper covering a new grammar.
This course, planned to cover two semesters (Latin Intermediate I and II), is designed as a continuation of Latin Beginner I & II, and it is intended for all students who are equipped with essential Latin grammar (i.e., most of its morphology and some very basic syntax), no matter whether they have completed Latin Beginner at CEU or have gotten it elsewhere. The course aims to strengthen and expand their knowledge of Latin morphology and syntax, and of vocabulary, and to improve their reading and interpreting skills of Latin through grammar lectures and reading comprehension sessions. The class will be reading original Latin texts, classical and post-classical, of various authors, genre and registers.
The Latin Intermediate I, run in the Fall term, will start off with a thorough revision of Latin morphology that typically gets to be covered in the Latin Beginner I & II courses (all five declensions, nouns and adjectives; indicative active and passive voice of all three tenses built on the imperfectum stem (present, imperfect/preterit and future tense) in all four conjugations and in some irregular verbs, and present active and passive imperative; personal, demonstrative and relative pronouns) so to get the whole class on the same page before we move forward with new grammar. The Latin Intermediate I will cover the following new grammar: regular formation of adverbs; degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs, regular and special; the active and passive voice of the three tenses built on the perfectum stem in the indicative mood (perfect, pluperfect and future perfect).
The class meets once per week on Thursdays for a 100-minute session that will be divided into two distinct 50-minute parts: 1. the first part will be interactive practice session in which we will go through the assigned homework and revise the grammar covered the week before; 2. the second part will be lecture proper covering a new grammar.
- Instructor: Dora Ivanisevic