Summer courses of Latin and Greek: residential – Rome 2023

COURSE PRESENTATION

The residential Summer courses allow students to completely immerse themselves in Classical languages, guaranteeing a fast and sound learning of Latin and Ancient Greek. Students live for four weeks in the Rome University Campus in Piazza dell’Ateneo Salesiano, sharing every moment of their daily life using actively Latin and Ancient Greek. Not only lessons but also meals, recreational moments, visits to the archeological sites of Ancient Rome are completely held in Latin and Ancient Greek.

Through the reading of texts specifically designed to foster language acquisition, students learn morphology, syntax and phraseology of Latin or Ancient Greek. The IISC methodology combines the scientificity of Higher Education, based on Humanistic school tradition, with the most recent acquisition of contemporary glottodidactics. The active use of the language transform the learning from passive listening into active skills, guaranteeing a sound and in-depth knowledge of the language.

Lessons are completely held in Latin or Ancient Greek and they do not require any pre-requisite: students are guided into the learning of the language starting from the very first notions of the language up to the direct access to the original texts of Classical literature.

If you want to discover more about our methodology, take a look to two video-lessons of our telematic courses.

Lessons are held from Monday to Friday. Didactic field trips to the archeological sites of Ancient Rome are held on Saturday: through the reading of Latin and Ancient Greek literary texts, students will listen the Ancient writers’ voices where they first echoed. Sunday is free; students who make an official request at the moment of subscription might reserve guided tours (in English) to the Roman monuments with a licensed guide.

DIDACTIC OFFERINGS

Upon registration, students choose to register to the Latin course (L.V.D.V.S. – Loqui Vere Discere Verum Sapientis) or the Ancient Greek course (Π.ΑΙ.ΓΝ.ΙΑ. – Πεπαιδευμένοι ἈΙτία ΓΝωσόμεθα ἸΑτρεῖα). Language lessons are held in the morning, from 9 am to 1.30 pm.
Lessons will cover the entire grammar and they guarantee learning of the 2000 most frequent word of Latin/Greek literature.
At the end of the course, students will be able to read fluently Classical literary texts in the original language.

In the afternoon, supplementary lessons of language in-depth study, in Latin or Ancient Greek, according to the student’s curriculum, will be held. These lessons are optional and they provide a recap and a strengthening of the topics covered in the morning lessons.

Afterwards, students might attend short courses of literature, philosophy, composition and didactic methodology. Students are free to attend the course they prefer, according to their interest. Each course lasts two weeks:

from June, 26 to July, 7:
Palaestra artis Latine scribendi (held in Latin)
Seneca, Stoics and emotions (held in English)
L’amicizia nella letteratura classica (held in Italian)

from July, 10 to July, 21:
Ars docendi (held in Latin/Greek)
Plato on love and beauty (held in English)
La letteratura cristiana latina e greca (held in Italian)

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