INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS
Objectives for Elementary-Level Students of Latin
Grammar: fundamental competency in the following structures:
- all declensions (all cases for nouns, adjectives, pronouns)
- all conjugations (all tenses in the indicative, both active and passive)
- adverbs
- numerals
- prepositions
- introduction of subordinate clauses (conjunctions; subjunctive)
Vocabulary: acquisition of basic vocabulary (approximately 900 words upon completion of LAT 112) as well as:
- ability to use morphological rules to guess unknown vocabulary
- ability to read and understand simple Latin texts
- better understanding of the English language through Latin cognates and comparison of syntactical structures
- ability to translate simple English sentences into Latin
In addition to demonstrating the ability to pronounce Latin and to answer simple Latin questions about a text in Latin, students will be introduced to Roman culture, civilization, and history (including topics of Greek mythology).