IL: L711; PIL:
KULeuven: B-KUL-A07E3A 4 study points
Taught by: Daniel McCarthy
Aims:
By the end of the course, student will be prepared to:
i. follow the sequence of tenses,
ii. discern between many uses of the subjunctive and
iii. handle these differently in Latin and English,
iv. recognize and work with object sentences,
v. produce the natural meaning of the four participles,
vi. convert the gerundive to a gerund and vice versa,
vii. use several of the fourteen ways to express purpose.
Students enrolling for ECTS credit at KU Leuven:
This course, Proficient Latin for Liturgists, is taught at Ealing Abbey, London from 12 to 23 August 2013 for academic year 2013-2014. It is completed before enrolment at KU Leuven at the end of August. To enquire please write to: il AT bsac.ac DOT uk. After successfully completing this course at Ealing, you may thereafter enrol for this course at KU Leuven to receive KU Leuven study points / ECTS credits.
Dates:
Students for credit enrol for both weeks: 11-22 August 2014 (free days Saturday 16th, Sunday 17th)
Studnets not for credit may enrol for only the first week or for both weeks:
11 – 15 August 2014
or for both weeks: 11-22 August 2014
Hours: 14.30 – 15.30 (including a 24 minute break)
The course anticipates the student will spend 60 hours in personal reading and study.
Location: Benedictine Study and Arts Centre (at Ealing Abbey)
74 Castlebar Road Ealing London, W5 2DD, UK
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8862 2156 Fax: +44 (0)20 8862 2133
For further details or to register contact the Centre at:
E-mail: centre AT bsac.ac DOT uk; il AT bsac.ac DOT uk
KU Leuven awards 4 study points to this graduate course.
This is an elective course towards the Institutum Liturgicum certificate.
Previous knowledge
Preparedness for this course is assessed by a Latin entrance exam equivalent to Intermediate Latin (such as course L511 taught at the Institutum Liturgicum by James Leachman and Danni Vowles), which requires a familiarity with the formation and usages of the subjunctive and by one’s preparedness to read Latin texts on liturgical subjects.
Content
In every session students encounter Latin liturgical texts and Latin authors writing on the liturgy from many ages. We shall consider texts from a different genre of liturgical Latin daily: Biblical, Patristic, Liturgical, Scholastic, Magisterial, Musical. Each daily session involves three elements:
i. reviewing together the personal study given the previous day.
ii. presenting and discussing an aspect of expression in the Latin language,
iii. encountering Latin authors and understanding their expression.
Our method is that developed by Fr Reginald Foster, OCD, retired papal Latinist of forty years. More information about our method is available at this web-site.
Course Material
Latin texts are distributed in class.
Students are strongly encouraged to purchase or bring their own copy of this one dictionary:
♦ LEWIS, C.T. – C. SHORT, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford UP, Oxford – New York 1879, reprinted 1995.
The following guide is our standard
♦ GILDERSLEEVE, B.L, – G. LODGE, Gildersleeve’s Latin Grammar, Bolchazy-Carducci, Wauconda IL 2003, reprint of 31895 (GL).
Our method was first published in this chapter (more info here; available from the publisher):
♦ FOSTER, R.T., – D.P. MCCARTHY, “Collectarum latinitas”, in Appreciating the Collect: An Irenic Methodology, ed. J.G. Leachman – D.P. McCarthy (DREI, Liturgiam aestimare 1), St Michael’s Abbey Press, Farnborough 2008, 27-56.
This book will prove helpful when considering the weekly collect (more info here; available from the publisher:
♦ MCCARTHY, D.P., Listen to the Word, The Tablet Publishing, London 2009.
Other resources recommended:
♦ ROSE, E., “Medieval Latin”, in Missale gothicum, (Cod. Vat. Reg. Lat. 317) ed. E. Rose, (Corpus christianorum series Latina 159 D), Brepols, Turnhout 2005, 94-187.
♦ Textus Liturgici Selecti Graeci et Latini, ed. M. Alberta and privately published by the Pontificio Istituto Liturgico, Rome. A copy is provided to the students.
♦ Participants with a personal computer, with a LAN cable or wireless connectivity and a UK plug-in adapter will benefit more readily from online resources.
Description of learning activities
The course has three daily activities.
1. Students sight-translate the Latin expression of many authors from different ages and types of literature with the help of the teacher and a complete Latin dictionary like Lewis and Short. All discuss unfamiliar aspects of the Latin texts as they arise.
2. The instructor presents daily one specific way in which Latin functions and is expressed. Examples are provided, based on which students generate new examples. All discuss these Latin forms and expressions as they come up in the readings.
3. Students prepare outside of class brief daily ludi domestici or “home games” with which students teach themselves the Lain language by learning from the examples of Latin authors on which they base their personal Latin compositions.
Evaluation description
Examination type: ongoing (50%), oral (25%) with written preparation (25%).
When: ongoing; Written preparation and oral exam are completed during the final session.
Explanation: Attendance, participation and preparation of homework (not marked) count for 50% of the final mark. At the beginning of the examination, each student will be assigned a mass formulary (4 prayers) and three texts from Christian literature from Textus Liturgici Selecti Graeci et Latini. Each student will have one hour to prepare a translation into English using notes and printed books, but no on-line resources. At the beginning of the oral exam, the student will present the translations and discuss them with the instructor.
Criteria for evaluation: The goal is an English rendering that sticks close to and so reveals a clear understanding of the Latin text in manageable English. The goal is not a polished English text that thereby moves away from the Latin text. During the discussion the instructor will ask the reason for every subjunctive verb, the natural meaning of the participles, to convert gerundives and gerunds, how to state medieval expressions more classically, how to make the plurals singular and singulars plural, the actives passive, passives active, how to put the verbs and their sequence of tenses into other times and into indirect discourse, as we do during every encounter of this course.
Second opportunity to sit the exam: Because this is an intensive summer course, the opportunity for a second exam is by appointment and depends upon the availability of the instructor.
Note: Students must be over 18 years of age.
The course anticipates the student will spend 60 hours in personal reading and study.
This course is designed so that students wishing to attend only the first session daily on liturgical texts and texts on the liturgy may do so. Students wishing to attend only the second session daily on the letters of Cicero may do so. In both cases enrol in the course at the IL as an auditor student.
Dates: Block III
Students for credit enrol for both weeks: 11-22 August (Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th are free days)
Studnets not for credit may enrol for only the first week or for both weeks:
11-15 August (Monday to Friday)
18-22 August (Monday to Friday)
Accommodation:
Non-residential day students are welcome.
Limited accommodation is available through Ealing Abbey house for guests or other religious houses or nearby.
Residential students may arrange to arrive on Saturday 9 or Sunday 10 August or before the course begins at 10.00 on Monday 11 August 2014.
Residential students may arrange to depart depart after the session on Friday 22 or on Saturday 23 August 2014.
Additional information from KU Leuven course web-site
Academic year: 2013−2014
Study points: 4
Language: English
Difficulty: Master’s level-Advanced
Duration: 26.0 hours
Periodicity: Taught annually in Block III
POC: International Programmes Theology and Religious Studies
This course is included in
Master of Theology and Religious Studies Study Abroad Programme in European Culture and Society (PECS).
A link to the course descriptor at KU Leuven is not yet available, but the course is based on one previously offered (link here).
Credit students are required to attend only 26 hours of instruction, and so may arrange to depart before the end of the course.