We are pleased to announce:

Latin Lives at Ivy Hall

Latin Proficiency Exam Prep Course

Tuesdays 4:00 - 6:00 PM
This course is designed for college students preparing for a Latin Proficiency Exam in their graduate studies program. As such, this course will review grammar and syntax, but will especially focus on the fluent reading of Latin text. Those interested should contact the instructor. Late registrants welcome to this course.
Instructor: Jeanne Haines, BA
(215)822-0261 
jmhlatin@verizon.net

Foundations I Continuing

Tuesday evenings 6:00 - 8:00PM
This course is a continuation of the Foundations I course which began in September 2011.

Foundations II ( Intermediate Level )

This course is a continuation of Foundations I and continues to provide systematic instruction in Latin grammar, syntax, vocabulary and sentence-building in English to Latin as well as Latin to English, leading to the reading of short passages in Latin. Using Orberg’s Lingua Latina as a primary text,experience in reading extended narrative is expanded.

Adults who have had an introductory level experience of Latin, or who are interested in returning to Latin after some years but who are not yet ready to read extended text independently will find this course an excellent preparation for the  Readings course.
Enjoy the company of like-minded folks as we study Latin – this most LIVING language – in the gracious rooms of Ivy Hall.

Cost: $350.00 for a ten-week session, plus cost of materials.

Classes begin the week of September 13, 2011 – see calendar for details

Wednesday Evenings: 4:30 – 6:30 PM – Instructor: Jeanne Haines
Contact Info: Phone (215)822-0261 or email: jmhlatin@verizon.net

Readings in Latin (Advanced Level)

This course is an on-going review and application of Latin grammar and syntax using Orberg’s Lingua Latina as reference. However, this course does not limit itself to a textbook – rather, our primary purpose is to use the Latin we have acquired to read original Latin works. Past selections have included Roman poetry, St Patrick’s Confessio, and passages of the Vulgate Scriptures using a beautiful facsimile of the Book of Kells,  which afforded us the opportunity not only of reading Scripture in Latin, but to learn to decipher the beautiful manuscript text as well. This year we will concentrate on passages from the post-classical and medieval periods, using Harrington’s anthology of Medieval literature.

If you have a basic knowledge of Latin and want the opportunity to read text with assistance, and to engage in thoughtful discussion of the content with fellow Latin lovers, we would welcome your addition to our numbers. 

Cost: $350.00 for a ten-week session, plus cost of materials.
Classes begin the week of September 13, 2011 – see calendar for details

Wednesday Evenings: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM – Instructor: Jeanne Haines
Contact Info: Phone (215)822-0261 or email: jmhlatin@verizon.net

Intensive Summer Latin Institute, Philadelphia, PA 
June 12 through August 8, 2012

The International Institute for Culture is offering an intensive Latin summer program, six hours a day, five days a week for two months.  The program will be under the direction of Stephen C. Córdova, who did his doctoral work at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto in Canada and is currently the coordinator of academic affairs for the St. Francis de Sales School for Pastoral Ministry in the Diocese of Oakland.  The class will be a thorough introduction to classical Latin grammar and syntax, using the inductive method of the Cambridge Classics Project. The ecclesiastical, or “mediaeval”, form of pronunciation will be employed.

This is an excellent opportunity for those who want to study the classics, philosophy, law, medicine, theology – or simply be more fully connected with our own cultural heritage, in order to understand  better  both our past and our present.  Having access in the original Latin of Roman and European philosophers and jurists will certainly provide a more profound understanding of our current jurisprudence and legal systems.

Now that Benedict XVI has approved the celebration of the extraordinary form of the Latin Mass in his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum of 2007, the program will provide the opportunity for more priests and seminarians to obtain the necessary language skills for the celebration of this form of the Holy Mass.  Beyond the broader restoration of the extraordinary form of the Mass, the newer priests are discovering the beauty and nobility of the ordinary form of the mass in Latin, the Novus Ordo, or the Mass of the Second Vatican Council.  Furthermore, a knowledge of Latin will be of inestimable value in plumbing the depths of the theological and spiritual traditions of the Roman Catholic Church. 

Summer 2012 Latin
A thorough introduction to classical Latin grammar and syntax, using the inductive method of the Cambridge Classics Project.

The ecclesiastical, or “mediaeval”, form of pronunciation will be employed.

Additional guided readings in Augustine, Aquinas, the Biblia vulgata, and other select texts.

Classes meet M-F, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for 8 weeks, 12th June through 8th August 2012.

For more information, contact the instructor, Stephen C. Córdova: cordovensis@gmail.com

Required Texts:
Stephane Pope, et al.  Cambridge Latin Course, North American Fourth Edition, Units 1-4.  ISBN: 978-0-521-00434-3, 978-0-521-00430-5, 978-0-521-89470-8, 978-0-521-7831-9. 

Frank Ritchie. Ritchie’s Fabulae Faciles.  Ed. John Copeland Kirtland, Jr.  ISBN: 978-1-451-50456-9.

Recommended Texts:
Benjamin Hall Kennedy.  Revised Latin Primer.  ISBN: 978-0-582-36240-6.

Langenscheidt Pocket Latin Dictionary.  ISBN: 978-0-887-29107-4.

Norma Goldman and Ladislas Szymanski.  English Grammar for Students of Latin.  Third Edition.  ISBN: 978-0-934-03434-0.

CL = Cambridge Latin Course
Cost of the program is $2,900 not including the texts.  Other photocopied materials will be provided.  There will also be the opportunity for occasional excursions in Philadelphia to discover the city and read Latin texts on public buildings.  At the conclusion of the program the participants will have roughly the equivalent of two years college level Latin.  Some academic institutions have given credit for the course but that depends entirely on the institution where the student is enrolled.  We submit to the academic institution the syllabus, course plan, contact teaching hours, and the curriculum vitae of the instructor which it customarily uses to make a decision in accord with its own requirements.

Ivy Hall is in historic Overbrook Farms, Philadelphia, and is in walking distance of St. Joseph’s University, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, and Lankenau Hospital, a major teaching hospital in the area.  It is also in walking distance of the train station that offers a six minute train ride to the principal train station in Philadelphia, 30th Street Station, with Amtrak connects to New York and Boston north and Baltimore and Washington, D.C. south.

If you need housing for the program, please contact Becca Haas at 215-877-9910 or write her at rhaas@iiculture.org. 

r more information, contact the instructor, Stephen C. Córdova: cordovensis@gmail.com and copy rhaas@iiculture.org. 

JOIN THE GROWING WORLDWIDE
MOVEMENT OF LIVING LATIN ENTHUSIASTS!