THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE

FACULTY SENATE



Senate Document Number 4903S

Date of Senate Approval 02/13/03

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Statement of Faculty Senate Action:


 APC Document 43:       Changes to Latin courses


 Effective Date: Fall 2003


 1. Delete: On pg 83, description for CLAS 332:

Translation and discussion of selections from Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid, and Amores. Includes historical and cultural background and practice in scanning elegiac and other metres. See department chair.

Add: On pg 83, in place of deleted entry:

Translation and discussion of selections from Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid. Includes historical and cultural background and practice in scanning elegiac and other metres. Even years Fall.
2. Delete: On pg 83, in description for CLAS 352:

See department chair.

Add: On pg 83, in place of deleted entry:

Odd years Spring.

 

3. Delete: On pg 83, course description for CLAS 412:

Translation and discussion of Livy I or XXI, or Tacitus' Annals. Course includes historical back-ground. See department chair.

Add: On pg 83, in place of deleted entry:

Translation and discussion of Livy, Sallust or Tacitus' Annals. Course includes historical background. Odd years Fall.



4. Delete: On pg 83, in description for CLAS 432:

See department chair.

Add: On pg 83, in place of deleted entry:

Odd years Spring.



5. Delete: On pg 83, course description for CLAS 462:

Translation and discussion of selections from Lucilius, Horace, Juvenal or Persius. Includes cultural background and discussion of satire as a genre. See department chair.

Add: On pg 83, in place of deleted entry:

Translation and discussion of selections from Lucilius, Horace or Juvenal. Includes cultural background and discussion of satire as a genre. See department chair.



6. Delete: On pg 83, entry for CLAS 484:

Advanced work in the Latin language, focusing on Latin prose composition (translating from English into Latin). Prerequisite: a solid grounding in Latin grammar and preferably experience in reading Latin authors. See department chair.

 

7. Add On pg 83, new course CLAS 313, Ovid

313 Ovid (3)

Translation and discussion of selected works of Ovid, such as the Ars Amatoria, Metamorphoses or Fasti.  Includes historical and cultural background and practice in scanning hexameter and elegiac metre. Odd years Spring.


 Impact:
No impact on other departments is foreseen. No new resources are required. We are adding a course on Ovid to our regular list of courses, but such a course has frequently been taught as a Special Topic in the department already. We are removing Latin Prose Composition from the list of regularly offered courses, though we will continue to teach it as a Special Topic. Otherwise, assigning certain core courses to specific semesters is mostly a matter of putting past departmental practice actually into writing, enabling us to plan our curriculum with a greater degree of precision over the next few years. The removal of Persius from Clas 462 should have no impact on this course, since only Lucilius, Juvenal and Horatian satires have been chosen as texts in the past. We are also adding Sallust as an author to CLAS 412 and no longer specifying the books of Livy to be read in the course. This gives us greater flexibility in creating courses.

Rationale:
Ovid is an author of such central importance that his works should be included in our regular course offerings. As the department continues to increase its numbers of majors, we need to become more organised to handle them satisfactorily and to enable them to have a sense of how they will progress through the program. Since CLAS 484 is one of the hardest of all the Classics courses, it is not practical to run it even every three years, since there is not always student demand or ability for it, although it will continue to make a good Special Topics for an advanced group.