Summer Intensive Language Offerings

This course introduces to the vocabulary, morphology, and syntax required to begin reading Ancient Greek texts, including plato, Lysias, Lucian, Homer, the Tragedians, and the New Testament. The course covers the same material as our Greek 101 and Greek 102 courses and, like Greek 102, can satisfy Arizona's "2nd Semester" Second-Language Proficiency requirement. 

• Format: The course is typically taught in an online, asynchronous format. Students need not be in Tucson (or even in the United States). The course does require about 25-30 hours of work per week, but the work can be scheduled around other activities and duties. Students are asked to connect with the instructor at least once a week (but as often as they like!) using Zoom for live support of their work. 
• Timing: This is a 10-week, 6-unit course, which typically runs from early June through mid-August. The exact timetable for the upcoming year can usually be found at https://summer-winter.arizona.edu/.
• Cost: The cost of the course is the same for all students (regardless of residency or student status), and can be found at the registrar's page here: https://summer-winter.arizona.edu/summer/fees. Please note that this is a 6 credit hours. There is sometimes funding available for UA students looking to take GRK 112, provided that they intend to continue their study of Greek. For more information, please watch our Scholarships and Awards page. 
• Pedagogy: The course is designed around proficiency or mastery based learning, in which students need to master the material of lesson 1 before they can proceed to lesson 2. This allows students to spend as much or as little time as they need, doing extra practice for more challenging material or less for easy material. Grades are determined by not averaging student performance on exams, but rather based on how much of a course a student achieves mastery in over the course of the term. This approach has proved successful for the many students who have completed the course since it began to be taught this way in 2016. 
• Syllabus: A syllabus from the Summer 2020 instantiation of this course is available here. 
• Questions? Please direct questions about this course to the instructor, Dr. Robert Groves*. 

This course reviews the vocabulary, morphology, and syntax of Latin as students practice reading ancient Latin texts, including those by Livy, Pliny the Younger, Bede, and Virgil. This course is organized somewhat differently than our Latin 201 and 202 courses in that it assumes at least basic familiarity with all of Latin morphology and syntax (but offers extensive review). Students entering Latin 212 from Arizona's Latin 102 can definitely be successful in the course but should contact the Instructor directly for recommendations on how best to be prepared. Like Latin 202, Latin 212 can satisfy Arizona's "4th Semester" Second-Language Proficiency requirement. 

• Format: "This course is offered "live online" / synchronously online 9-11am AZ time. There will also be some significant asynchronous online elements (review, readings, quizzes, exams, etc.)" Students should expect to spend at least another 4-6 hours between each class meeting.
• Timing: This is a 5-week, 6-unit course, taught in the "Five Week Second" session, which typically runs from early July though mid-August.  The exact timetable for the upcoming year can usually be found at https://summer-winter.arizona.edu/.
• Cost: The cost of the course is the same for all students (regardless of residency or student status), and can be found at the registrar's page here: https://summer-winter.arizona.edu/summer/fees.  Please note that this is a 6-credit course. Unfortunately, the department does not usually have funding to support scholarships for this course.
• Syllabus: a syllabus from the Summer 2021 instantiation of this course is available here.  
• Questions?  Please direct questions about this course to the instructor, Dr. Philip Waddell*.