LA 410 - Senior Seminar in Latin

A reading and writing program that draws together each student’s work in Latin. Students will take two major sight examinations and weekly sight quizzes, and will write a short explication du texte. I mean by explication du texte a short interpretive exercise that was practiced by late ancient grammarians and then by teachers in the cathedral schools of the Middle Ages. The exercise involved commentary on linguistic, rhetorical, and literary features of a passage or short text.

Prerequisites: LA 101 and LA 211 and at least Junior or Senior standing.

Full course
Misc. Notes: Students are advised to take several versions of Directed Readings in Latin Literature before taking the seminar.