Participants join a five-week course introducing Latin as a language for reading, writing, and communication. Weekly meetings support self-guided study through the Paideia Institute's "Living Latin."
Living Latin, Part I guides registered participants through the first five chapters of the Paideia Institute's self-guided online course. All 60 chapters of the course can be completed over a two-year period, but students may also start and stop their progress as needed, as long as there is remaining availability of seats in the course.
Registration is required so that participants can be enrolled into the online course.
"Living Latin" is designed for teens in the high school years and young adults. Elementary age and middle schoolers have opportunities to study Latin through "Teaching Literacy with Latin" and "Elementa" respectively, programs occasionally on offer at the library. Mature learners interested in studying Latin should contact the instructor by email: humanities@princetonlibrary.org.
About the self-guided online course (from the Paideia Institute):
"Living Latin" is a self-paced online course that offers a complete introduction to the Latin language. It features animated videos teaching Latin grammar, a graded reader which starts out in simple Latin and gradually increases in difficulty as students master grammar and vocabulary, and supplementary articles on the history and culture of the Latin language across the centuries. It is available for individual learners and for teachers, who can enroll their students in a class and access a reporting system, which allows them to keep track of their students’ progress.
"Living Latin" also includes a graded reader of more than 80,000 Latin words. This reader tells the story of a group of students from around the world studying abroad in modern Rome. As the students adventure around Italy, they visit famous monuments from the past and read ancient, medieval, and Renaissance Latin texts associated with those monuments. Eventually, the story develops into a fast-paced mystery novel.
About the instructor:
Cliff Robinson is the public humanities specialist at Princeton Public Library. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University's Department of Classical Studies, where he was also awarded the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014. Previously he was a professor of Classics in the Department of Humanities at the University of the Sciences and a visiting scholar in the Department of Modern & Classical Languages at Saint Joseph's University. His distinction in teaching Classics at the university-level has been twice recognized nationally with the Society for Classical Studies's Award for Excellence in Teaching of the Classics at the College and University Level in 2022 and the Classical Association of the Middle West and South's CAMWS Award for Excellence in College Teaching in 2024.
Presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
AGE GROUP: | Teens |
EVENT TYPE: | World Language | Workshops & Classes | Language Learning | Humanities | Education | *Registration Required |
TAGS: | NEH | Learning Latin 24 |
