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Unfortunately not at the moment, but again we have a workaround. In certain circumstances, IU-Indianapolis students can take courses at other local universities for the same cost as they would at IU-Indy. So if you want to continue your Latin past the first year, you can do so at Butler or Marian University. We hope …

It is not possible to “pass out” of a language at IU-Indianapolis, for reasons no one has ever deigned to explain to us. However, if you take a language course and pass it with a sufficient grade, you can “buy” the credits from preceding classes at a drastically reduced rate. In our case, this means …

Not really, but we have a workaround. Currently, we offer two courses in Latin: CLAS-L 131 Beginning Latin I in the fall and CLAS-L 132 Beginning Latin II in the spring. If you have extensive experience in Latin and feel confident about it, we recommend trying CLAS-L 132. If not, CLAS-L 131 is probably a …

Yes, Latin is a dead language, but all that means that no one raises their children to speak it from birth (ok, some people we know do, but they’re eccentric Classicists and anyway there’s not enough of them to count). Latin is still insanely useful to the living, and possibly to the dead, too. There …