Latin in Rome

Not available 2008. Will return in 2009.

Thank you for visiting our site, and for your interest in our program. We regret to inform you that we will be unable to run the Latin in Rome Program in the summer of 2008. Unfortunately, our Latin faculty has other obligations this coming summer, and we cannot offer a program of the quality we promise with substitutes for them. Dr. David Sweet, Dean of Braniff Graduate School and Director for 2009 asks that we assure you that "without fail we will be recommencing the program the summer after this, and the dates tentatively that we are looking at are mid- July to early August."

If you are able to defer your interest for a year, we would surely welcome an application from you next fall. Our application period generally begins around October 1, and we will certainly notify you when applications are available. You may also complete an inquiry form indicating interest in our 2009 program.

For those of you who might be looking for another study travel opportunity for 2008, we attach a letter from Dr. Gregory Roper, director of Latin in Rome’s sister program, Shakespeare in Italy. Please read the letter and give serious consideration to the possibility of studying Shakespeare’s Roman and Italian plays in situ this summer with this acclaimed medievalist and teacher of writing. Please visit the Shakespeare in Italy webpage for more information or to complete an inquiry form.

Study Latin in Rome!

The University of Dallas invites eager and qualified young Latinists to participate in its one-of-a-kind program in Latin situated just outside of Rome. Like all of our study-travel programs, Latin in Rome is based upon classical and classic texts from the University's Core Curriculum. Participants study passages from Cicero, Pliny, Vergil and Horace relevant to their travels in Rome. Students also read selected passages in translation from these and other authors to enhance visits to sites in Rome and Naples. The academic program will include lectures by university faculty who have lived and taught in Rome, daily language tutorials, group discussions of texts, as well as guided visits to the historical sites and world famous museums in the vicinity. This program is not a simple summer tour, but rather, a rigorous program of intensive study of Latin in Rome, the most suitable context for such study.

The Readings: Cicero, Vergil, Pliny, & Others

• Passages from Vergil's Aeneid and Georgics, with special emphasis on the places we will visit
• Cicero's letters, many of which were written from his villa at Tusculum
• Pliny's Letters to Tacitus, describing the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D

More About the Program

Eligible high school students include rising juniors, seniors, and recent high school graduates who have completed at least three years of high school Latin. Students who successfully complete the program earn three college credits from the University of Dallas. These Latin credits are transferable to all accredited institutions. The cost of the program covers tuition, all airfare, land travel, documentation fees, room and board in Rome and Naples, and all museum fees and entry passes to historical sites. With the exception of no more than a few lunches during extended tours, all meals are provided, including a pool party on campus and a final dinner in Rome. A few limited, need-based scholarships are available. University also provides fundraising assistance to interested students.

Why Study Latin in Rome?

As you surely have been told, there are many other reasons to study Latin besides a simple love of the language or an interest in those remarkable Romans. Whatever the reason, learning Latin is hard work, memorizing vocabulary a dull task, and studying grammar a dismal necessity. But all of this can and does change when you walk in the steps of Cicero in the Forum, or gaze as Juno did from Mt. Albano over the fields where Aeneas and Turnus fought (Aeneid XII 134-137).

Things heretofore only talked about in books become real. A new urgency to your study is born. And in the Latin in Rome program we will do both: gaze and study, see and reflect upon what we have seen. Visits to sites in the morning will animate small-group evening language tutorials and discussions. Our purpose is to stimulate students: to awaken an interest in the history, politics, art and architecture of Rome, while working to enrich and deepen their understanding of this remarkable language and the people who spoke it. Most of the places we visit will be the immediate subject of the tutorial sessions. In such a setting, grammar becomes a map to a familiar place, and vocabulary a newly discovered old friend. Above all, we strive to preserve what some have called a "dead language" in living minds. And, as you probably know, such study has always been thought to be the irreplaceable foundation of a truly liberal education.

Faculty

Each year, University faculty and top students from our Classics Department lead Latin in Rome. Over the years, Latin in Rome directors and instructors have included program creator Dr. David O. Davies, Dr. Karl Maurer, Chairman of the Classics Department, and Dr. David Sweet, Dean of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts.

For Photos from Summer 2007

Click here to see pictures of Latin in Rome.

For more information

Click here to fill out an online inquiry form or contact:

Mr. Luke Mutschler
The Rome and Summer Programs Office
University of Dallas
1845 East Northgate Drive; Irving, Texas 75062-4736
(972) 721-5181
email: udsummer@udallas.edu.
AOL Screenname: udsummer

In your request, be sure to include your name, address, phone number, the high school you attend, year of high school graduation, and number of years of high school Latin studied. We'd also like to know how you heard about the program.

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