LATIN POETRY - ECE*
Academic Year: 2025-2026
Academic Year: 2025-2026
(This course is offered in alternating years only)
(This course is offered in alternating years only)
UConn Early College Experience Dual Credit
UConn Early College Experience Dual Credit
1 Credit
1 Credit
Grades 11, 12
Grades 11, 12
Prerequisite: 70% or better in Latin II or teacher/parent consent
Prerequisite: 70% or better in Latin II or teacher/parent consent
Latin Poetry is a full year course offered in alternate years. It enables the student to acquire an advanced Latin vocabulary and to strengthen his/her knowledge of linguistic form and grammatical structure. Themes of Latin poetry will be explored through the study of selected poems with emphasis on Vergil's Aeneid, and selected works of such authors as Catullus, Horace, and Ovid. In addition, students will explore poetic meter as well as Roman rhetorical and grammatical figures of speech and their influence on world literature. *Students enrolled in their 4th year of Latin will have the opportunity to earn ECE credit for this course through UConn.
Target level of Proficiency: Intermediate- Mid