Caution
Copyright © Monash University 1996
ISBN 1320-6222
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Latin is the gateway to some of the world's greatest and most influential literature and an indispensable tool for students of the history and culture of the classical world, late antiquity, and medieval Europe. All original texts are inevitably diminished and distorted by translation. There is no substitute, ultimately, for direct confrontation.
The department offers sequential first-year beginners subjects in Latin upon which minor and major sequences may be built. At both second and third-year levels seminal literary texts comprise core content.
In some circumstances it may be possible to accommodate non-beginners within the department's program. Students with VCE Latin should consult with one of the departmental co-heads prior to enrolment.
Intending honours and postgraduate students must again consult with one of the departmental co-heads prior to enrolment. Every effort will be made to accommodate them.
+ A minor sequence consists of a first-year sequence and LAT2210 plus either LAT2220 or LAT2230. LAT2220 and LAT2230 alternate biennially. The two second-year components of the minor sequence total sixteen points.
+ A major sequence comprises a minor sequence together with either LAT3220 or LAT3230, LAT3240, and any second or third-year level classical history and culture subject (for a list of these subjects, see the classical history and culture section). LAT3220 and LAT3230 alternate biennially. The three subjects that complete the major sequence together total twenty-four points.
+ LAT1010 Introductory Latin 1
+ LAT1020 Introductory Latin 2
+ LAT2210 Language and Literature A
+ LAT2220 Language and Literature B
+ LAT2230 Language and Literature C
+ LAT3220 Language and Literature B
+ LAT3230 Language and Literature C
+ LAT3240 Language and Literature D
Third-year level students of LAT2220/3220 and LAT2230/3230 will read additional portions of prescribed texts and make a wider study of related modern commentaries and critiques. The extra reading constitutes the basis of differential assessment.
+ LAT4340 Language
+ LAT4360 Special study
+ LAT4380 Dissertation
Out of forty-eight points in all, LAT4320 accounts for twelve points, LAT4340 for ten, LAT4360 for eight, and LAT4380 for eighteen.