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Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies 

at its meeting of February 7, 1984 gives rise to the following motion: 

MOTION: 

"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of 

Governors, as set forth in S.84-19 , the proposed 

New course - HUM. 303-3 - The Latin Humanist Tradition" 

Subject to approval of the course by Senate and the Board of Governors 

the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies approved waiver of the 

normal two-semester time lag requirement to permit first offerin 

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The Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee approved the following course 

for permanent inclusion in the Calendar at its meeting of January 

1984. 

HUM. 303-3 The Latin Humanist Tradition 

Would you please place this on the next agenda of S.C.U.S. Thank you. 

S. Roberts 

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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES 

NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM 

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Calendar Information 

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Department Humanities Program 

Abbreviation Code: 

Course Number: 

Credit Hours: 

Vector: 1-2-0 

Title of Course: THE LATIN HUMANIST TRADITION 

Calendar Description of Course: 

In this course, the major writings of Latin authors such as Plautus, Vergil, 

Seneca, Cicero, Augustine, and John of Salisbury will be studied. 

Nature of Course Lecture/Seminar 

Prerequisites (or special instructions): 

HIST 105 recommended 

What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is 

approved: None 

2. Scheduling 

How frequently will the course be offered? once every two years. 

Semester in which the course will first be offered? Fall 1984. 

Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering 

possible? P.E. Dutton (History) 

3.

.Objectives of the Course The objective of the proposed course is to familiarize students 

with the major contributions made by Latin writers in the west from the time of the Roma 

Republic until the Renaissance of the twelfth century. As such, the course will compleme 

HUM. 302: The Golden Age of Greece, in which the beginnings of the western humanist tradi- 

tion are studied. Both courses will seek to provide 

a bridge to a wide range of arts, 

including literature, art history, historiography, drama, poetry, and philosophy. 

4.

Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only) 

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What additional resources will be required in the following areas: None. 

Faculty ? 

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Staff 

Library See attached 

Audio Visual 

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5. Approval 

Date: 

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Department Chairman 

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Dean 

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Chairman, SCUS 

SCUS 73-34b:- (When completing this form, for instructions 

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Memorandum SCUS 73-34a. 

Attach course outline). 

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The Latin Humanist Tradition 

When Bernard of Chartres said, in the early years of the twelfth 

century, that 'We moderns are like dwarfs perched on the shoulders of the 

giants of antiquity', he was acknowledging the continuity of the tradition 

of Latin letters stretching back to the Roman Republic. In this course 

we shall try to uncover the richness of this tradition and to identify its 

essential features. Major writers to be studied will include Plautus, 

Vergil, Seneca, Cicero, Juvenal, Augustine, Eirihard, and John of Salisbury. 

One essay will be required from students, and two 

smaller 

projects for class- 

room presentation. 

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Required Texts 

P. MacKendrick, ed., Classics in Translation, vol.2: Latin 

Literature 

(Madison, 

1952). 

Augustine, The Confessions, trans. R.S. Pine-Coffin, Penquin ed. 1961.. 

Elnhard, Life of Charlemagne , trans. L. Thorpe, Penquin ed. L969. 

R.W. Southern, Medieval Humanism and Other Studies (New York, 1970). 

John of Salisbury, The Metalogic on, trans. D .D. McGarry (Berkeley, L962). 

Outline 

1.

Rome captured by Greek culture: the plays of Plautus and TerCe. 

2.

Poetry at the end of the Republic: Vergil, Ovid, and Horace. 

3.

Roman rhetoric: Quintilian. 

4.

Roman letters: Cicero and Seneca. 

5.

Roman historians: Livy and Tacitus. 

6.

Imperial satirists: Juvenal and Suetonius. 

7.

The encyclopaedic period of the late empire: Boethius and Cassiodorus. 

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Humanism and Christianity: Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome. 

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The Carolingian Renaissance: Charlemagne and Alcuin. 

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The ninth century: lupus of Ferrieres and Carolingian letters. 

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The twelfth-century Renaissance: the school of Chartres. 

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The later twelfth century: Abelard and John of Salisbury. 

13.

Conclusion: Did scholasticism kill the Latin humanist tradition? 

How will 

Hum.303 

:The latin Humanist Tradition fit into the Humanities Programme? 

The course is designed to continue the work begun in 

Hum.302:The 

Golden 

Age of Greece and to lead students to a wider interest in the Humanities and 

in the Humanities Programme. At it stands at present, 

Hum-302: 

The Golden 

of Greece remains rather isolated within the framework of the Humanities 

Programme. It seems to attract students 

interested in 

more information 

about the ancient world and, therefore, complements Hist.216: 

History. 

While this is not entirely a bad thing, since it should provide a steady influx 

of enthusiastic students, it would seem desirable to attach Hum-302 more closely 

to the needs of the overall Humanities Programme. To this end, 

Hum-3.02 

has been 

structured as a bridge to the other arts: drama, literature, historiography, art 

history, and philosophy. In this way students have been encouraged to apply 

their own interests to the ancient world. With 

I1um.303: 

The latin Humanist 

Tradition, this process can be extended. The course seeks toprovide students 

with a wide knowledge of Latin writers from Plw.ztüs to John of Salisbury. When 

a student will have completed 

Hum-302 

and

he will, one hopes, feel 

familiar with the major humanistic trends of western civilization. The student 

will, in addition, have read works such as the Histories of Herodotus, the 

Antigone of Sophocles, the Medea of Seneca, the Germania of Tacitus, the Confessions 

of Saint Augustine, and the Metalogicon of 

of Salisbury. With these courses 

under their belts, it is hoped that some students will proceed to enter the 

Humanities Minor Programme. 