Latin 201 (1) Fall Semester, 2015
[CRN 70117]
Class meetings: MW 3:30-5:00 (SS 240)
Instructor:
Office:
Phone:
Office Hours:
Hayden W. Ausland
LA 424
243-2125
MWF 1-2 and by appointment
Course Description:
This is an introductory course in the reading of classical Latin authors. After a couple of
weeks spent on systematic grammatical review, we shall read together in Latin selections from
several prose writers and one poet. The object of the course is to start you on the way to
appreciating Latin literature in the original tongue.
Class will be conducted as lecture-discussion that will call upon your powers of close
grammatical analysis, accurate translation, and thoughtful discussion. We shall proceed
through readings roughly according to the schedule given below. Advance preparation of the
relevant text by all will be expected.
While spending the indicated time with each author listed, you will from time to time be
quizzed in class on your command of the passages most recently covered. One or two written
examinations held during the term will test your command of all the readings thus far
completed. A comprehensive final examination will be held as scheduled in the university
catalogue. In addition, each student will, at some time during the term, prepare at least one
short oral report to the class on some aspect of the readings.
Evaluation will be on the basis of the quality and consistency both of class participation and of
written work. For this reason it is difficult to assign percentage values specifically to any
single aspect of the course. But I will seek to update you regularly on the current status of
your work and make mention of any problems.
Students should acquaint themselves with the conditions governing enrollment, performance,
and evaluation in university course work set out in the University of Montana Catalogue,
Schedule of Classes, and Student Conduct Code. I am as a professional matter interested in
your educational and professional development. Do not hesitate to consult with me (at
primary office hours, or at other times by appointment) if you want advising or help.
Required Materials:
Nepos. The college bookstore has an edition of Nepos. Texts of the rest will be made available in
photocopy.
Each student will probably also wish to acquire a Latin dictionary and a Latin Grammar.
Relevant subsidiary materials are available in the university's library.
Course Schedule:
Weeks 1-3
Grammatical review, & Eutropius (Selections)
Weeks 4-7
Cornelius Nepos, Alcibiades
Midterm exam
Weeks 8-13
Cicero, Oratio Pro Archia
Weeks 14-15
Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopicae (Selected fables)
Final exam