What are college Latin (and Greek) language courses like?
It depends upon how long you have been studying the language! We will talk about Latin here, since that is the ancient language that is more frequently offered in high schools. The first year of college Latin During the first college year of Latin study at CUA (for us, this year consists of two one-semester courses, called LAT 101 in the fall and LAT 102 in the spring), students come to class for 50 minutes, four days per week (Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday-Friday). Class meetings focus on the study of Latin “morphology and syntax,” which are really just technical terms for Latin word forms and the kinds of constructions those word forms use to build sentences. (So for those of you who have already studied some Latin, an example of “morphology” would be the noun forms of the first declension; an example of “syntax” would be purpose clauses.) The dome of St. Peter’s, Rome First-year college Latin uses a textbook (ours is by Moreland and Fleischer) and concentrates on learning to read Latin s
