Latin 102

Syllabus

Professor Jacques A. Bailly
Classics Dept.
481 Main St., Room 300
656-0993
jbailly@zoo.uvm.edu Classics Home
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Attendance: Required. See below under "Grades: evidence of engagement."

Texts:
We will be reading Martial and Seneca.

Procedure: We will spend class periods reading Latin and discussing the texts in question.
Each class, we will read one epigram of Martial, following which we will read Seneca.

Assignments and Opportunities:
There will be three opportunities to demonstrate your Latin formally (aka Tests), on Jan. 29, Feb. 26, and April 2, as well as a final one on May 6. In addition, you will be trying you hand at writing an epigram or two.

Grades: I am, willingly if they are high, unwillingly if low, required to record them. Do not ask me for a grade: earn it.
Artificially established limits for number-graded assignments (there won't be many in this course): 90-100%=A, 80-89%=B, 70-79%=C, 60-69%=D, 59% or lower fails. Plus and minus will be given for the top three and bottom three points of each range respectively. For other assignments, an A means that you challenged yourself and produced excellent and interesting work. A B means that I thought you could and should have done more, but you did quite well overall, and you produced fine work. A C means that you kept your head above water, survived, probably learned a lot, and did satisfactory work.

Graded Elements of this Course
Tests (	20% each
Final	20%
Epigrams	5%
Evidence of engagement with the class*	15%

*Such evidence includes attendance, preparation for daily material, participation in class, contacts outside of class, enthusiasm, and attitude. In other words, it includes whether or not it is obvious to me that you are regularly engaged and prepared to contribute at the highest level of which you are capable (absence, even if unavoidable, necessarily hampers engagement: FYI, missing one class translates to roughly 1% of the course grade).

Where applicable, your assignments must be good English and proofread. Your assignments must also be consistently formatted. If I find, on average, >2 typoes, negligent grammatical infelicities, or formatting inconsistencies on a page (or every 250 words), then you will be docked 13% on your final grade. Do what you must do to avoid this.

Contacting me: E-mail is best. You can also try dropping by my office. If it is not during office hours and I am there, I might be busy, so be ready to make an appointment for later. My home phone is 859-9253.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
(John Dewey, UVM 1879)