Classes

Course Info and Features

• Meeting Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Eastern Time) Tuesday and Thursday
• Class runs from September 15th to May 27th, with breaks for holidays
• Tuition: $450
• Prerequisites: age 14 and above (exceptions are made for students with previous language experience)
• State-of-the-art Adobe web conferencing system. Uses flash, and works with any operating system, mac or pc, with no firewall issues.
• All meetings recorded, replayable at any time.
• Online quizzes and tests

Course Description

Latin shouldn't be scary, and translating shouldn't feel like a long, painful math problem. To avoid this in our Beginning Latin I course, we try to make our students comfortable with Latin at an early stage. This not only makes homework less burdensome, but it also helps the student toward a greater fluency with the Latin language. We still cover all the basic grammar, syntax, and vocabulary of a normal beginning Latin course (using Wheelock's Latin), but we'll combine that with an emphasis on simple, fun composition and reading.

Specifically, we'll be going through half of Wheelock's Latin textbook (chapters 1-20). We'll also use the ever-popular 38 Latin Stories to complement Wheelock's. Because we like our students so much and don't want to abandon them, we'll be offering a Beginning Latin II course next year to get through the rest of Wheelock's and into some intermediate Latin readings. Plans are even in store for some advanced courses in the future.

For grading, students will be assigned short quizzes throughout the course, as well as four longer tests. All the quizzes and tests are computerized, graded automatically, and give the student detailed information about their weak areas and where best to focus their study efforts. They'll receive a final grade for the course based on their quizzes, tests, composition assignments, and class participation.

Course Format

Though our course is an online course, we try to give students all the attention they would get in a traditional classroom setting. In each class meeting, we make sure to answer questions from students and provide a short lecture on any new material. For urgent questions, students may email the instructor between class meetings.

We're also using the new Adobe Acrobat conferencing system for our classes. Since it's Flash-based, it co-operates with all browsers, operating systems, and firewalls, as long as you have flash enabled. It's also full of nice features for an online class. There's an instructor webcam, a chat window, a whiteboard, and full support for microphones. Most importantly, we record all classes and allow students to review them any time, as often as they like. This way, if your student misses a class for any reason, they can just log in and watch the recording. As far as we know, no other online latin course offers this type of opportunity for review.

Instructor

Donny Linnemeyer graduated summa cum laude from New St. Andrews College in 2009 with a B.A. in Liberal Arts and Culture. While a student at NSA, he studied Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and also tutored students in all three. Since graduating, he's gone on to work with Professor Schwandt at the Institute of Biblical Greek, where he teaches Latin and Greek, among other various and sundry tasks.

Required Materials

Author		Title Publisher (date) ISBN Brief description and comment, (review links)	Format Pages	Retail Price	Direct Links to purchase
Wheelock, Frederic		Wheelock's Latin, 6th Edition Revised Collins ((May 31, 2005)); ISBN-10: 0060783710; ISBN-13: 978-0060783716 (Amazon reviews) Pretty much the standard text for introductory latin.	Paperback 560 pp.	$21.95	$15.80 Amazon
Groton, Anne		38 Latin Stories Designed to Accompany Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin Bolchazy Carducci (December 1, 1998); ISBN-10: 0865162891; ISBN-13: 978-0865162891 (Amazon reviews) A great collection of small stories in Latin to help introductory students get more comfortable with the language.	Paperback 104 pp.	$19.00	$15.39 Amazon

Register for Beginning Latin I

There are two steps to our registration process. First, complete the form below to register on our website. We keep all information completely private. We have taught online courses since 2001 and have never had any privacy complaints, so you can register with confidence. Second, after completing the form, you can pay your tuition via paypal or personal check (see below for more information).

Pay Course Fee

Your final step for enrollment into the course is to pay the tuition. You will be enrolled in the course (your spot in the class will be secured) as soon as we receive your tuition payment. For your convenience we allow online payments through Paypal by using the Paypal button below.

The tuition includes access to the conferencing system (so there are no additional fees or software to purchase), but it does not include books for the course. (If you cannot manage a one time payment we construct a payment plan for an additional charge.)

Please note that payment in Paypal will be made to the National Biblical Greek Exam. IBG and NBGE share Paypal accounts for convenience.

If you prefer to mail a check physically, make it payable to "The Institute of Biblical Greek".
P.O. Box 8473
Moscow, ID 83843

You will be contacted after we receive your tuition. We will email you a confirmation, tips for getting a head start on the course, and directions for practicing with the conference system.