This is a two-week intensive course on campus in Irving, Texas.  This year, the course takes place from June 28th to July 11th.

You should have two semesters of college Latin or equivalent proficiency.

This course is a 3-credit graduate course which counts toward the Classical Education M.A.  This equals approximately 45 hours of instruction.  

Each class has 7-15 participants per section.  Based on enrollment, we plan to offer two sections, one for elementary teachers and another for middle school teachers.

For more information on this program in general, please contact classical_ed@udallas.edu. For information specific to Track A, contact lmeidt@udallas.edu.  And for information specific to Track B, contact eellis@udallas.edu.  

Time                               Activity

8:30am-9am                  Ientaculum (Breakfast) --- conducted in Latin

9:15am-10:30am          Sessio I --- Latin language practice

11am-12:15pm             Sessio II --- Latin language practice

12:15pm-1pm               Prandium (Lunch) --- conducted in Latin

Noon                              Daily Mass available in the UD Chapel

1:15pm-2:30pm           Seminar --- pedagogy, theory, and methodology (in English)

Lead Instructor(s): 1 faculty member per section with expertise in Latin pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition.

All required texts are low-cost and widely available.

Estimated total cost per participant: Under $50

Epitome Historiae Sacrae --- Charles Lhomond

Sermones Romani --- Hans Ørberg

Readings and Exercises in Latin Prose Composition --- Milena Minkova & Terence Tunberg

Included: Breakfast and lunch (Monday--Friday)

Optional Add-On: Dinner and on-campus housing through UD Residence Life & Dining

Lodging and meal coordination will be handled directly with campus departments

This track is taught by Dr. Laura Eidt.  It is aimed at teachers in elementary schools with little or very little prior experience with Latin/spoken Latin to help them create an input-rich Latin classroom. Some of the teaching skills to be practiced include “TPR” (total physical response), circling questions, picture study, readers theater, a variety of post-reading activities, as well as contextualized and meaningful grammar tasks.

This track is taught by Dr. Erik Ellis.  It takes post-beginner Latin students and instructors through a comprehensive course of exercises that teach the habits of Latin reading fluency and discussion. Students learn to interact with unadapted Latin texts by using dialogues to discuss the grammatical, syntactical, literary, and cultural features of both prose and poetry. By the end of the course, students will understand how to conduct a socratic seminar on a Latin text in Latin and will have built a strong foundation for oral, academic Latin fluency.

To get 3 graduate credits, choose from the following project options:

A) Write a (8-10) page research paper on a topic of language pedagogy 
B) do a creative writing project in Latin on a topic of the students choice OR a fluent performance of a level-appropriate Readers Theater/colloquium
C) Write a detailed lesson plan and film a 10-15 min teaching demonstration of part of that lesson 

Residential (non-credit): $2,499

Commuter (non-credit): $1,999

Residential (for-credit): $3,999

Commuter (for-credit): $3,499

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