Intensive Latin Summer School 2024

About the courses

We offer an Intensive Course in Latin. These courses offer students who have not previously had the opportunity to study Latin intensive training designed to bring them from complete beginners to a point where they are able to read simple texts in Latin. 

These courses are six weeks long, with the option to study either the first three week block (for absolute beginners) or the second three week block (for students at intermediate level).

Dates

• Session 1: Beginner’s Latin: Monday 1 July to Friday 19 July
• Session 2: Intermediate Latin: Monday 22 July to Friday 9 August

They are ideal for students who intend to study for a Masters or Doctoral degree to get ahead during the summer, thus acquiring an essential skill for their future research. They are also appropriate for Y12 and Y13 school pupils, teachers, undergraduates, mature students and anyone with an interest in the Hellenic or Roman world.

Students work through the JACT Reading Greek or JACT Reading Latin course in daily language classes and are expected to put in a number of hours of private study to consolidate class work and to complete homework assignments. Staff are on hand to offer private tutorials and surgery hours, as required. Assessment is by three in-class tests.

Lectures & Visits

However, as well as being highly intensive, the courses offer a friendly and supportive environment. There are workshops by guest lecturers offering an introduction to skills such as epigraphy, and we also hope to offer guided tours or behind-the-scenes sessions at the British Museum.

Fees:

• students taking the examination: £1,150
• students who do not wish to take the examination: £900

Session 1: Beginner’s Latin: Monday 1 July to Friday 19 July

Week One

• Part One Grammar
• Present tense
• Common irregular verbs
• Cases
• 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd declension nouns
• 1^st , 2^nd, 3^rd declension adjectives
• Prepositions
• Part One Texts: Plautus and the Roman comic tradition
• Extracts based on Plautus, Aulularia

Week Two

• Part Two Grammar
• Future and perfect tense
• Numerals
• 4^th and 5^th declension nouns
• Deponent verbs
• Further uses of cases
• Part Two Texts: Plautus and the Roman comic tradition
• Extracts based on Plautus, Bacchides

Week Three

• Part Three Grammar
• Comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs
• More deponent verbs
• Unpredictable principle parts
• Further uses of cases, expressions of time
• Part Three Texts: Plautus and the Roman comic tradition
• Extracts based on Plautus, Amphitruo

Session 2: Intermediate Latin: Monday 22 July to Friday 9 August

Week One

• Part Four Grammar
• Imperfect and pluperfect tenses
• Indirect Statements
• Uses of the genitive and ablative
• Relative pronouns
• Ablative absolute
• The locative
• The passive
• The subjunctive
• Indirect commands
• Conditions
• Part Four Texts: The Demise of the RomanRepublic
• Provincial Corruption: the Verres scandal 73-71
• Extracts from Cicero, In Verrem II

Week Two

• Part Five Grammar
• Result clauses
• Purpose clauses
• An introduction to Roman poetry
• Jussive subjunctives
• Wishes
• Impersonal verbs
• Gerunds and Gerundives
• Verbs of fearing
• Uses of the perfect subjunctive
• Indirect questions
• More conditions
• Part Five Texts: The conspiracy of Catiline in Rome 64-62
• Extracts from Sallust, Catilinae coniuratio and Cicero, In Catilinam IV

Week Three

• Part Six Grammar
• An introduction to scansion and metre
• Part Six Texts: Poetry and Politics: Caesar to Augustus
• Extracts from the poems of Catullus, letters of Cicero, Caesar, de Bello Civili, Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, Virgil, Aeneid, Horace, Odes, Ovid, Amores

Syllabus

You will be following the JACT Reading Latin course books (CUP second edition). You will be provided with a copy of the textbooks for the duration of the course, but if you would like to buy your own copy to keep, then these are available to buy through Amazon.

This Latin summer school is an intensive language learning courses.  It offers students who have not previously had the opportunity to study Latin intensive training designed to bring them from complete beginners to a point where they are able to read simple texts.

Assessment is by three in-class tests.

You will be following the JACT Reading Latin course books (CUP second edition). You will be provided with a copy of the textbooks for the duration of the course, but if you would like to buy your own copy to keep, then these are available to buy through Amazon.