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 postclassical, of various genre, authors, and registers.
Latin Intermediate II, offered in the Winter term, is designed as a continuation of Latin Intermediate I, taught in the Fall term, and it will continue where Latin Intermediate I left off. It is also open to students who acquired the knowledge of Latin grammar and the reading comprehension skills elsewhere.
The class will cover the remainder of the basic morphology (the subjunctive mood of the imperfectum and perfectum tenses), and it will cover some syntax, such as the nominal forms of the verbs, the two periphrastic conjugations and participial constructions, reporting indirect speech, the syntax of the cases.
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class meets once per week 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