LEARN LATIN THIS SUMMER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

LEARN LATIN THIS SUMMER
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

JUNE 8-AUGUST 7, 2009

? 2 YEARS OF COLLEGE-LEVEL LATIN IN 2 MONTHS
? READ CAESAR, CICERO, CATULLUS, OVID AND VERGIL
? NO PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE OF LATIN REQUIRED
? 12 CREDIT HOURS FROM UVA OR NO-CREDIT OPTION
? SUMMER HOUSING IS AVAILABLE

This summer the Department of Classics at the University of Virginia
will again offer Latin as one of the University's Summer Language
Institutes. The Latin program is an intensive series designed to
cover two years of college-level Latin (4 semester courses or 12 UVa
credit hours). Students may also choose a non-credit option. The
Summer Latin Institute represents an excellent opportunity for
motivated students to achieve rapid proficiency in Latin. The
student-faculty ratio is low with 6 instructors and usually 10 to 20
students.

The Institute begins with four weeks on the fundamentals of Latin
grammar, including elementary readings and composition. In the second
four weeks of the program students read extensively from classical
Latin poetry and prose at the intermediate level, and they also have
the opportunity to join an optional reading group, to read the author
of their choice. There are six hours of formal instruction per day
and supplementary review sessions in the evenings. On the whole the
program is demanding and the pace is sustained; the mission of the
Institute's faculty is to prepare serious students to read Latin texts
with increasing facility by the end of the eight-week session.

In the past we have had undergraduates from numerous institutions in
the U.S. and abroad who have applied credit earned at the Institute
toward degrees in Classics and related disciplines. Many graduate
students from various fields, including History, Religious Studies,
Art History, Archeology, Philosophy, Medieval Studies, Romance
Languages, Comparative Literature, and English, have completed our
intensive program and continue to use Latin to further their
educational and research objectives. For more information about this
exciting educational opportunity please contact:

Tom Garvey, Director of the Summer Latin Institute,
tgarvey@virginia.edu, or Caren Freeman, Office of the Summer Session,
uvasli@virginia.edu

Please visit the program website on line at www.virginia.edu/summer/SLI.
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