Latin undergraduate modules

Sub-Honours (20 credits each)

	Semester 1	Semester 2
Year 1	LT1001. This course gives an introduction to classical Latin, for those with little or no previous experience of the language. LT1003. This course is designed to help students with 'A' Level or Higher Latin to develop their reading and appreciation of Latin literature. We begin with an anthology of passages and some of Caesar’s Gallic War Book I, and move on to Seneca's Apocolocyntosis, his satirical obituary on the emperor Claudius.	LT1002. This course provides a follow-on from LT1001, and introduces students to the reading of 'real Latin' texts; the course will conclude with lectures and classes on the poet Catullus. LT1004. This course provides a follow-on from LT1003, and focusses on selected passages in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura Book 3 and in the Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius.
Year 2	LT2003 Latin in Progress I This course is designed for students who took LT1001/2 in their first year, and aims to building on the reading skills they will already have acquired. Works studied are Cicero's Dream of Scipio and Catullus' Peleus and Thetis. LT2001 Latin Language and Literature I: the Republic This course is designed for students who took LT1003/4 in their first year, and aims to building on the reading skills they will already have acquired. Texts studied are as for LT2003, along with selections from Lucretius' On the Nature of the Universe.	LT2004 Latin in Progress II This course aims to bring ex-beginners up to a comparable level with students who had studied Latin at school. A selection from the great classical Roman writers is studied, including portions Cicero’s Letters, Virgil's Aeneid, and the elegy of Tibullus and Propertius. LT2002 Latin Language and Literature I: the Empire A selection from the great classical Roman writers is studied, including portions of Cicero’s Letters, Virgil's Aeneid, and the elegy of Tibullus and Propertius.

First level

Either

Advanced (Post A-Level/Higher or equivalent): one module each semester, forming a year-long course, designed to build students’ skill and confidence at reading extended Latin texts independently, and to broaden their knowledge of classical literature and culture.

Or

Beginners/Intermediate: one module each semester, forming a year-long course, designed for students with little or no previous knowledge of Latin. By the end of the year, all students will have studied some Latin literature in the original and will have the basic skills to translate real Latin texts.

Second level

Either

Advanced (Post A-Level/Higher or equivalent): one module each semester, forming a year-long course, designed to increase further students’ ability to read and appreciate Latin texts for themselves. At the end of these courses, students will be familiar with Latin literature of a wide range of genres and periods.

Or

Ex-Beginners: one module each semester, forming a year-long course, designed to enable students to read and appreciate Latin at a comparable level to students who have studied Latin before University. A selection of classic works of Latin literature is studied.

Honours modules

See  Honours booklet (PDF, 743 KB) for more details.

The Honours programme covers two years. Students can choose from a wide variety of modules taught within the School, and combine modules in various ways, depending on the degree chosen, to suit their particular interests. Non-literary areas of thought and creativity may be explored through modules dealing with Religion, Art, Philosophy, and Science, or in a module offered by another department, and the dissertation module permits students to write on a Latin topic of their choice. Much of the Honours teaching is done in small groups, with lectures or seminars, and regular tutorials.

See also:

• Ancient History honours modules
• Classical Studies honours modules

Latin

• Why study Latin?
• Latin at St Andrews
• Degree options
• Programme requirements
• Modules: sub-honours
• Modules: Honours
• Undergraduate entry requirements

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