ENGL
4183 Intensive Latin Online 2015
Dr.
Larry Swain
Bemidji
State University
Course Description: This
course is an intensive introduction to Latin, covering in nine weeks a full
academic year’s worth of the language. This will require a lot of work and
dedication on the part of both instructor and student. By the end, however, the
student should be able to read Latin prose with the aid of a grammar and a good
dictionary or lexicon. There will be a great deal of memorization. Via our
online tools, discussion board, online office hours, recorded lectures, live
lectures, exercise sharing and corrections, and Q&A sessions delivered via
D2L, power point presentations, and other tools, we will go through the entire
text and master basic Latin. The course will require a commitment from the
student. A MINIMUM of 2 hours and preferably 4-6 hours a day will need to be
spent working on the exercises, in class, interacting with the professor etc.
Because delivery is online rather than in a traditional classroom, the need for
each individual student to apply him- or herself diligently daily is even more
important than in a face-to-face class. We will meet virtually in an
online classroom for each lesson to explain the grammar lesson, to do some in
class exercises, to correct exercises, and so on, for approximately an hour,
more if necessary or if student interest. The rest of your time will be spent
working on exercises, translating sample passages of actual Latin, memorizing
the forms.
Texts: Intensive Latin by Floyd Moreland and Rita
Fleischer
Other materials as assigned
(I will have advice about students’
dictionaries, additional grammar aids in print and online and so on as well
throughout the course).
Highly Recommended: English Grammar for Students of
Latin: The Study Guide for Those Learning Latin by Norma Goldman and Ladislas
Szymanski
This course is six credits; I think a full year of Latin deserves
a full year of credit. The above URL at the top is the Center for
Extended Learning Admissions website. This URL is for the tuition
calculator: http://www.bemidjistate.edu/offices/business/tuition_fees/tuition_calculator/.
