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Course Description and Method: In this course we shall read through Lingua Latina per se Illustrata, by Hans Ørberg, and complete the accompanying exercises and use some of the auxiliary materials. Students will hear and use Latin in the middle 50 minutes of each class, but may ask questions in English in the first five and final five minutes. There will be a brief weekly memorization assignment (to be rendered orally or in writing, at the student’s choice), comparable in difficulty to the texts which we shall read.
Expectations: students will demonstrate: 1) a commitment to attend classes or to watch all classes missed. If a student must miss a class, a recorded version will be sent promptly; 2) the completion of daily and weekly exercises, which require 10 minutes and 30-60 minutes, respectively, outside the scheduled class times; 3) memorization of material which will then be either recited/sung or written, as the student chooses; also, the student may both recite and and write to receive some extra credit.
Envisioned Learning Outcomes: Students will learn to understand Latin through their ears and eyes; they will also acquire the capacity to respond to questions in Latin, both orally and in written form; by the end of the first semester, the student will be able to read some intermediate Latin texts (including, an account of the Nativity of Our Lord [narrative-homiletic and liturgical Latin]; ancient maxims [juridical]; a few well-known phrases from the Aeneid [poetic]; and a brief dialogue from Terence [drama-comedic]; have a summary knowledge of basic Latin grammar.
The student will learn Latin through the eyes and ears, primarily – although also through other senses, since nihil est in intellectu quod non sit prius in sensu (De veritate, q. 2 a. 3 arg. 19) – and this sensate knowledge will be ordered and organized by the student’s agent intellect, into a work of art and science that will stand AMDG, ad perpetuam rei memoriam.
The second semester will build on this and complete the edifice.
MEET THE PROFESSOR: Meet the Professor: Jonathan Arrington spent six years in Catholic seminaries in Germany, Italy, France, and America. After he left, he pursued doctoral studies in Patristic Theology at the Augustinianum, in Rome, Italy. He has sung Church Slavonic in the choir at Sant’Antonio l’abate Russian Byzantine Catholic Church in Rome for most of the last seven years. He also worked as a translator for l’Osservatore Romano, and translated documents from various modern languages into Latin for officials at the CDF, Roman Rota, and Apostolic Signatura. Finally and most enjoyably, he taught History, Theology, Latin, and Greek in Rome for Christendom College, Thomas More College, Newman College Ireland, and the Angelicum.
He now resides in South Carolina with his beloved wife, and they are happily expecting their fourth child on their coming anniversary. His interest in and enthusiasm for the active use of Latin and Ancient Greek as the best method to learn and appreciate the genius of those languages stems in large part from felicitous friendships with several of our age’s most brilliant classicists: David Morgan (+), Luigi Miraglia, and Patrick Owens. In addition, he once shared a conversation (in Latin, of course) and a cappuccino with the renowned Nancy (Annula) Lewellyn, beside his favorite Roman Basilica, Santa Maria Maggiore. That experience whet his appetite for the promotion of Latin immersion in Catholic schools.
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