Instructor Information

David Wharton
237B McIver Building
334 5726
wharton@uncg.edu

Student Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, undergradute students will

• be able to form grammatical Latin expressions of all kinds
• understand and be able to use common Latin idioms
• be able to write short passages of coherent Latin prose

  Graduate students will

• be able to identify and use discourse particles and devices to compose longer passages of Latin prose
• show competence in composing passages with complex grammatical challenges, e.g. subordinate clauses and conditional sentences, etc. in indirect statement, the relationship of word order and information structure, and so on.

  NB: no separate exercises for graduate students appear on the Fall 2002 schedule of assignments because no gradutate students are enrolled this year.

Teaching Strategies

Reading
Lecture
Discussion
Group projects
Peer-review of written work

Evaluation Methods and Guidelines for Assignments

Written assignments (50%)
Group project (20%)
Mid-term and final exams (15% each)

Daily written assignments can be found on the topical outline below. Assignments are to be typewritten according to the following format: each assignment must show the student's name, the date, and chapter and sentence numbers for each exercise. The exercises must be triple-spaced in large (at least 12-point) type. The left margin must be wide enough to accommodate a 3-hole punch & hole reinforcers. All assignments are to be kept in a 3-ring binder in order by date. These assignments will be corrected by you in class with a red pen. You will be graded not only on the quality of your initial assignments but also on the quality of your corrections, so you should correct yourself fully, accurrately, and legibly. Daily assignment binders will be turned in for grading every two weeks.

The group project will be a translation of an extended prose passage -- perhaps a children's story or a speech -- that the class will translate into Latin together. The final product is intended to be useful to you in teaching situations.

Exams will entail translation of English sentences to Latin at sight (without dictionary or grammar reference).

Attendance / Drop Policy

Daily attendance is mandatory. If you have more than three unexcused absences, you will be dropped from the course with a grade of F or WF, regardless of the quality of your other work.

Honor Policy

All written work falls under the UNCG Academic Integrity Policy. Although working together on daily and group assignments is encouraged, turning in any work that is not your own is a violation of the Integrity Policy, and will entail consequences listed at http://saf.dept.uncg.edu/studiscp/Honor.html.

Required Texts/Readings/References

Colebourn, Latin Sentence and Idiom
Anne Mahoney, Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar
Cassell's Latin-English / English-Latin Dictionary

Other useful references:

Bradley's Arnold Latin Prose Composition
Gildersleeve & Lodge's Latin Grammar
The Oxford Latin Dictionary
Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary
Thesaurus Latinae Linguae

Useful Links

Lewis and Short Latin-English Dictionary
Lewis and Short English-Latin word search

Topical Outline  

f	TOPICS	READINGS	COMPOSITIONS
Unit 1	What is language? Speech Acts. Mood and Illocutionary Force. Illocutionary and Discourse Particles (-ne, num, nonne, utrum).	C§11-17; §201-206; §391-393; §81-87; §437	1A.1-3, 6, 13; 20A.3, 6, 8; 39A.3, 10; 39B.1; 8A.1, 4, 6, 9
Unit 2	Predicates. Verbal predicates: zero-, one-, and multiple-place predicates. Case and predication: What is a subject? What is an object? What is the role of case in predication?	§401-408; §421-423; §181-182; §251-255	40A.1, 3-6, 14; 42A.12, 15, 17, 19; 18A.2, 4, 7; 25A.2, 5, 9
Unit 3	Esse as predicate; oblique cases with esse (genitive, dative); Raising of verbal predicates: participles, gerunds, gerundives	§63; §291-297; §31-36; §331-335	6A.1; 6B.6, 9; 29A.1, 3, 5, 9; 3A.1-7; 33A.1-10
Unit 4	Raising of verbal predicates II: accusativum cum infinitivo (AcI)	§71-76; §141-146; 92	7A 1-13; 7B 1-10; 14A.3, 7, 9; 9A.1
Unit 5	Phrasal arguments of verbal predicates: result clauses, indirect commands, clauses of fear	111-116; 91-97; 231-238	11A.1, 2, 7, 9, 10; 9A.2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9; 23A. 1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 10
Unit 6	Phrasal arguments of verbal predicates II: indirect questions, quin, infinitive phrases	161-169; 491-495	16A.1-10; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10. 2: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10.
Unit 7	Adjuncts of verbal predicates: purpose clauses, time, place, cum clauses, dum clauses	101-107; 151-158; 461-469; 472-477; 191-196.	10A (part 1): 2, 3, 5, 6, 11, 14; (part 2): 1, 5, 6, 7, 10; 15A (even-numbered sentences); 46A.1-3, 7; 47A. 1, 3, 5, 9. 19A 1-10.
Unit 8	Disjuncts: ablative absolute, attitudinal disjunts, pseudo-conditions, themes.	41-45	4A.1-10. W2
Unit 9	Nominal predicates: arguments and adjuncts: adjectives and APs, genitive substantives, prepositional phrases, relative clauses.	371-378; 61-62;	37A. 1-10; W3; 6A. 2, 6, 6B. 5, 7
Unit 10	Conditional sentences	430-437; 441-446; 571-575	43A 1-10; 44A 1-10; 57A 1-8
Unit 11	Lexical Semantics	171-179	Dictionary Exercise. 17A 1-12.
Unit 12	Discourse and Style	Latin Prose Readings	Paragraph Exercises and Games