Latin Language and Literature 1 (LATN2230)

Course overview

The course teaches further Latin grammar and syntax, and studies selections from Latin authors. It involves both a literary and linguistic study of the writers concerned, together with their social and historical significance.
NOTE: Instruction by small group teaching.

LATN2230 continues the study of the grammar and syntax of classical Latin, with an emphasis on learning through reading. It is designed for students who have successfully completed (with a grade of 4 or above) LATN1110 and LATN2120 or students who have completed Latin to Year 12 level. If you are in doubt about your situation, please contact the Course Co-ordinator before enrolling. There are 3 hours of classes per week. Regular attendance at classes, preparation, revision and private study are essential for this course.

Course requirements

Assumed background

Students must have completed (with a passing grade) both LATN1110 (Semester 1) and LATN2120 (Semester 2) or equivalent before enrolling in LATN2230. Please note that these courses must be done in order.

Prerequisites

You'll need to complete the following courses before enrolling in this one:

LATN1120, LATN2120 or Queensland Year 12 Latin (or equivalent)

Course contact

Course staff

Timetable

The timetable for this course is available on the UQ Public Timetable.

Additional timetable information

Attendance is vitally important for all language classes, important and a supportive environment will be provided so that students can participate in readings, discussion and by asking and answering questions. Lines of translation will be assigned to students for class translation. Microsoft Teams will be used in this course for announcements and communication. Please ensure that you have access in Week 1.

Aims and outcomes

By the end of LATN2230 you should have acquired

- In-depth Knowledge of the majority of the forms, grammar and syntax of classical Latin;

- Effective Communication Skills by completion of the written assignments and oral translation in class;

- Independence and Critical Judgment in interpreting and translating the graded reading passages; and

- Ethical and Social Understanding of the social and cultural values of the Roman world as expressed through its language and literature.

Learning outcomes

After successfully completing this course you should be able to:

Assessment

Assessment summary

Assessment details

In Person Mid-Semester Exam

• Identity Verified
• In-person

Mode

Written

Category

Examination

Weight

20%

Due date

15/04/2026 11:00 am

The mid-semester exam will take place in class

Task description

Exam details

Submission guidelines

The question paper, working paper, and answer booklet will be provided in class and collected at the conclusion of the exam

Deferral or extension

You may be able to defer this exam.

There will only be one date and time made available for a deferred mid-semester exam if a student is ill. This date and time will not be negotiable. All students must submit a request online and ensure that they are eligible (e.g. in the case of illness, a medical certificate will be required). Please note that course coordinators cannot approve deferred mild-semester exams via email, Microsoft Teams, or verbally.

In Person Final Exam

• Identity Verified
• In-person

Mode

Written

Category

Examination

Weight

35%

Due date

End of Semester Exam Period

6/06/2026 - 20/06/2026

Task description

Exam details

Submission guidelines

Deferral or extension

You may be able to defer this exam.

Please note that course staff cannot approve requests for final exams via email, Microsoft Teams or verbally.

There will only be one date and time made available for a deferred final exam if a student is ill in the deferred exam period, as determined by UQ Examinations. This date and time is not negotiable. All students must submit a request online and ensure that they are eligible (e.g. in the case of illness, a medical certificate will be required).

Please also note that the only supplementary assessment for LATN2230 is an exam held in the Deferred Exam period.

Skill Building 1: Class Participation and Practice

• Identity Verified
• In-person

Mode

Activity/ Performance, Oral

Category

Participation/ Student contribution, Translation/ Interpretation

Weight

10%

Due date

25/02/2026 - 29/05/2026

Task description

Submission guidelines

Students are required to be in class to translate their set lines: written work cannot be submitted in lieu of in-person attendance. Please print out your translated lines and hand them in at the beginning of class: while these will not be assigned an individual mark as this exercise is about providing feedback through discussion, and they form part of your overall participation mark. In person class participation is demonstrated through active participation in all components of the class: demonstration of prepared translations of set texts for weekly classes on Wednesday and Friday, in-class translation and discussion of set lines of the prepared texts, active engagement in discussions directed by the lecturer, and participation in other class learning activities.

Deferral or extension

You cannot defer or apply for an extension for this assessment.

Skill Building 2: Submissions

• Online

Mode

Activity/ Performance, Written

Category

Quiz, Reflection, Translation/ Interpretation, Tutorial/ Problem Set

Weight

35%

Due date

Assignment 1 12/03/2026 2:00 pm

Assignment 2 26/03/2026 2:00 pm

Assignment 3 30/04/2026 2:00 pm

Assignment 4 14/05/2026 2:00 pm

Assignment 5 21/05/2026 2:00 pm

Option A Continuous Quizzes 12/06/2026 2:00 pm

Option B Timed Quiz 12/06/2026 2:00 pm

See Blackboard for details

Other conditions

Time limited, Longitudinal.

See the conditions definitions

Task description

Submission guidelines

online via UQ Extend or Blackboard. See Blackboard for details

Deferral or extension

You may be able to apply for an extension.

The maximum extension allowed is 28 days. Extensions are given in multiples of 24 hours.

Assignments submitted late will be marked. Please note that a genuine attempt at answering all questions must be made for all assignments. An assignment which is blank will not be counted as a genuine attempt.

Please note that it is not normally possible to extend or defer the Option A, the continuous uqlatin quizzes on Extend unless you have been keeping up all semester, so please plan your time. If you have started but not kept up with the uqlatin quizzes, please take the timed blackboard quiz held in conjunction with the final exam in Exam Week 1.

If you have been granted a deferral for the final exam, please contact Dr McWilliam and she will provide access to the timed Blackboard Quiz.

Late submission

Please see Blackboard for further details

Course grading

Full criteria for each grade is available in the Assessment Procedure.

Additional course grading information

Skill Building: Vocab, Grammar and Accidence

Your quiz assessment task will be assessed according to the following criteria:

1. Ability to produce a succinct response to a directed question.
2. Knowledge of vocabulary, grammar and syntax.
3. Ability to employ relevant terminology.
4. Ability to parse correctly.
5. Ability translate correctly into English demonstrating that you understand the Latin.

Unlike formative assessment undertaken during your course (such as book reviews and essays), quiz answers are typically marked on right or wrong basis for multiple choice, single word and short answer questions. The overall grade achieved for a quiz is arrived at by totaling the marks for its constituent elements.

Skill Building: Translation, Parsing and Grammar: Assignments

Your performance in the Skill Building Assignments will be assessed according to the following criteria:

1. Your ability to translate from Latin into both idiomatic and more fluent English the texts covered in class;
2. Your ability to parse words from the learning vocabulary in the readings and in questions on the assignment paper;
3. Your ability to recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions;
4. Your ability to translate sentences made up with words from the leaning vocabulary using the grammar and syntax learnt to date into readable, idiomatic English.
5. The depth of thought expressed in reflecting on the feedback you have received and the strategies you believe will help you either to improve or to maintain your current level if you received an excellent mark
6. Your ability to demonstrate that you have begun to develop transferable workplace skills by completing authentic assessment task(s)

To achieve a grade of 7 (High Distinction, 85-100%), your Assignments should demonstrate that you have an exceptional knowledge of vocabulary and an excellent ability to translate seen Latin passages covered in class and unseen sentences and passages made up from the learning vocabulary into readable, idiomatic English, and an excellent ability to parse words and to recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions. Your reflection on your feedback will demonstrate that you have read the feedback very carefully and thought very deeply about how to apply it in the future. Your authentic assessment assignment(s) should demonstrate that you have developed exceptional transferable workplace skills.

To achieve a grade of 6 (Distinction, 75-84%), your Assignments should demonstrate that you have an excellent knowledge of vocabulary and a very good ability to translate seen Latin passages covered in class and unseen sentences and passages made up from the learning vocabulary into readable, idiomatic English, and a very good ability to parse words and to recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions. Your reflection on your feedback will demonstrate that you have read the feedback carefully and thought deeply about how to apply it in the future. Your authentic assessment assignment(s) should demonstrate that you have developed excellent transferable workplace skills.

To achieve a grade of 5 (Credit, 65-74%), your Assignments should demonstrate that you have a proficient knowledge of vocabulary and a proficient ability to translate seen Latin passages covered in class and unseen sentences and passages made up from the learning vocabulary into readable, idiomatic English, and a proficient ability to parse words and to recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions. Your reflection on your feedback will demonstrate that you have read the feedback adequately and thought about how to apply it proficiently in the future. Your authentic assessment assignment(s) should demonstrate that you have developed proficient transferable workplace skills.

To achieve a grade of 4 (Pass, 50-64%), your Assignments should demonstrate that you have a functional knowledge of vocabulary and a functional ability to translate seen Latin passages covered in class and unseen sentences and passages made up from the learning vocabulary into readable, idiomatic English, and a functional ability to parse words and to recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions. Your reflection on your feedback will demonstrate that you have read the feedback and thought adequately about how to apply it in the future. Your authentic assessment assignment(s) should demonstrate that you have developed an functional transferable workplace skills.

To achieve a grade of 3 (Marginal Fail, 45-49%), your Assignments will demonstrate that you have a superficial knowledge of vocabulary and a have made a basic but flawed attempt to translate seen Latin passages covered in class and unseen sentences and passages made up from the learning vocabulary into English. It should also demonstrate that although flawed, you have an emerging ability to parse words and to recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions. To achieve a marginal failing grade, your Assignments must demonstrate that you have done enough work to show that you have an emerging ability to understand and use the vocabulary, grammar and syntax covered in the whole of the course. Your reflection on your feedback will demonstrate that you have read the feedback but not understood how to apply it. Your authentic assessment assignment(s) should demonstrate that you have begun to develop transferable workplace skills, but that you have not been able to demonstrate basic mastery in authentic assessment assignment(s).

To achieve a grade of 2 (Fail, 25-44%), your Assignments will demonstrate that you have a partial, faulty or clearly deficient level of vocabulary, that you have difficulty in translating or have failed to translate seen Latin passages covered in class and/or unseen sentences and passages made up from the learning vocabulary into readable, idiomatic English, and that you are unable to parse words and cannot recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions. Your reflection on your feedback will demonstrate that you have read the feedback but not thought about how to apply it, or that you have not read the feedback and just submitted something without any reflection. Your authentic assessment assignment(s) demonstrate that you have not adequately developed transferable workplace skills.

To achieve a grade of 1 (Low Fail, 0-24%), your Assignments will demonstrate that you have not mastered your vocabulary, that you cannot translate seen Latin passages covered in class and/or unseen sentences and passages made up from the learning vocabulary into readable, idiomatic English, that you are unable to parse words or recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions. Reflection answers are answered with no reflection or no attempt will have been made to offer answers. Your authentic assessment assignment(s) demonstrate that you have failed to develop transferable workplace skills, or failed to offer answers to the questions.

In Person Mid-Semester Exam

Your performance in translation questions will be assessed on the following criteria:

1. Your ability to translate from Latin into idiomatic English texts covered in class;
2. Your ability to parse words from the learning vocabulary in the readings and in questions on the exam paper;
3. Your ability to recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions;
4. Your ability to translate sentences, phrases and passages made up with words from the leaning vocabulary using the grammar and syntax learnt to date into readable, idiomatic English

To achieve a grade of 7 (High Distinction, 85-100%), your Mid-semester Exam should demonstrate that you have an exceptional knowledge of vocabulary and an excellent ability to translate seen Latin passages covered in class and unseen sentences made up from the learning vocabulary into readable, idiomatic English, and an excellent ability to parse words and to recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions.

To achieve a grade of 6 (Distinction, 75-84%), your Mid-semester Exam should demonstrate that you have an excellent knowledge of vocabulary and a very good ability to translate seen Latin passages covered in class and unseen sentences made up from the learning vocabulary into readable, idiomatic English, and a very good ability to parse words and to recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions.

To achieve a grade of 5 (Credit, 65-74%), your Mid-semester Exam should demonstrate that you have a proficient knowledge of vocabulary and a proficient ability to translate seen Latin passages covered in class and unseen sentences made up from the learning vocabulary into readable, idiomatic English, and a proficient ability to parse words and to recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions.

To achieve a grade of 4 (Pass, 50-64%), your Mid-semester Exam should demonstrate that you have a functional knowledge of vocabulary and a functional ability to translate seen Latin passages covered in class and unseen sentences made up from the learning vocabulary into readable, idiomatic English, and a functional ability to parse words and to recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions.

To achieve a grade of 3 (Marginal Fail, 45-49%), your Mid-semester Exam will demonstrate that you have a superficial knowledge of vocabulary and a have made a basic but flawed attempt to translate seen Latin passages covered in class and unseen sentences made up from the learning vocabulary into English. It should also demonstrate that although flawed, you have an emerging ability to parse words and to recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions. To achieve a marginal failing grade, your Mid-semester Exam must demonstrate that you have done enough work to show that you have an emerging ability to understand and use the vocabulary, grammar and syntax covered in the whole of the course.

To achieve a grade of 2 (Fail, 25-44%), your Mid-semester Exam will demonstrate that you have a partial, faulty or clearly deficient level of vocabulary, that you have difficulty in translating or have failed to translate seen Latin passages covered in class and/or unseen sentences made up from the learning vocabulary into readable, idiomatic English, and that you are unable to parse words and cannot recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions.

To achieve a grade of 1 (Low Fail, 0-24%), your Mid-semester Exam will demonstrate that you have not mastered your vocabulary, that you cannot translate seen Latin passages covered in class and/or unseen sentences made up from the learning vocabulary into readable, idiomatic English, that you are unable to parse words or recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions.

In Person Final Exam

Your performance in the Final Exam will be assessed according to the following criteria:

1. Your ability to translate from Latin into idiomatic English texts covered in class;
2. Your ability to parse words from the learning vocabulary in the readings and in questions on the exam paper;
3. Your ability to recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions;
4. Your ability to translate sentences, phrases and passages made up with words from the leaning vocabulary using the grammar and syntax learnt to date into readable, idiomatic English.

To achieve a grade of 7 (High Distinction, 85-100%), your Final Exam should demonstrate that you have an exceptional knowledge of vocabulary and an excellent ability to translate seen Latin passages covered in class and unseen sentences made up from the learning vocabulary into readable, idiomatic English, and an excellent ability to parse words and to recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions.

To achieve a grade of 6 (Distinction, 75-84%), your Final Exam should demonstrate that you have an excellent knowledge of vocabulary and a very good ability to translate seen Latin passages covered in class and unseen sentences made up from the learning vocabulary into readable, idiomatic English, and a very good ability to parse words and to recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions.

To achieve a grade of 5 (Credit, 65-74%), your Final Exam should demonstrate that you have a proficient knowledge of vocabulary and a proficient ability to translate seen Latin passages covered in class and unseen sentences made up from the learning vocabulary into readable, idiomatic English, and a proficient ability to parse words and to recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions.

To achieve a grade of 4 (Pass, 50-64%), your Final Exam should demonstrate that you have a functional knowledge of vocabulary and a functional ability to translate seen Latin passages covered in class and unseen sentences made up from the learning vocabulary into readable, idiomatic English, and a functional ability to parse words and to recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions.

To achieve a grade of 3 (Marginal Fail, 45-49%), your Final Exam will demonstrate that you have a superficial knowledge of vocabulary and a have made a basic but flawed attempt to translate seen Latin passages covered in class and unseen sentences made up from the learning vocabulary into English. It should also demonstrate that although flawed, you have an emerging ability to parse words and to recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions. To achieve a marginal failing grade, your Final Exam must demonstrate that you have done enough work to show that you have an emerging ability to understand and use the vocabulary, grammar and syntax covered in the whole of the course.

To achieve a grade of 2 (Fail, 25-44%), your Final Exam will demonstrate that you have a partial, faulty or clearly deficient level of vocabulary, that you have difficulty in translating or have failed to translate seen Latin passages covered in class and/or unseen sentences made up from the learning vocabulary into readable, idiomatic English, and that you are unable to parse words and cannot recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions.

To achieve a grade of 1 (Low Fail, 0-24%), your Final Exam will demonstrate that you have not mastered your vocabulary, that you cannot translate seen Latin passages covered in class and/or unseen sentences made up from the learning vocabulary into readable, idiomatic English, that you are unable to parse words or recognize and explain grammatical and syntactical Latin constructions.

Supplementary assessment

Supplementary assessment is available for this course.

Additional assessment information

Please note that the supplementary assessment for this course is an exam held in the deferred exam period. The time and date are set by UQ Examinations.

• Failure to submit all major assessment items (those worth 15% and above) will result in a maximum grade of 2 (Fail).
• By submitting work through Turnitin you are deemed to have accepted the following declaration: ‘I certify that this assignment is my own work and has not been submitted, either previously or concurrently, in whole or in part, to this University or any other educational institution, for marking or assessment’.
• All students must ensure that they receive their Turnitin receipt on every submission of assessment items. YOU MUST CHECK THAT THE RECEIPT CONFIRMS THAT SUBMISSION HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL.
• A valid Turnitin receipt will be the only evidence accepted if assessments are missing.

Without evidence, the assessment will receive the standard late penalty, or after 7 calendar days, will receive zero. In the case of a Blackboard outage, please contact the Course Coordinator as soon as possible so that they can confirm the outage with ITS.

• It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that they are submitting assessment items on a device that is capable of the task, and that appropriate internet bandwidth and speed is available. If you cannot be sure that your device or internet will enable you to complete or submit an assessment task, you must come onto campus and use one of the University Computers in the Library or Computer Labs.
• Plagiarism, and asking or paying someone else to do your work is cheating and constitutes academic misconduct. See ECP Section 6.1
• Feedback against the assessment criteria in the form of comments on your script will be provided through Turnitin or on your script directly.
• For information on assessment remarks see: https://my.uq.edu.au/information-and-services/manage-my-program/exams-and-assessment/querying-result

Learning resources

You'll need the following resources to successfully complete the course. We've indicated below if you need a personal copy of the reading materials or your own item.

Library resources

Library resources are available on the UQ Library website.

Additional learning resources information

Unfortunately, uqlatin.com is not available for this course, but a workaround has been provided on UQ Extend. Please contact Dr McWilliam if you do not have access, j.mcwilliam@uq.edu.au.

Learning activities

The learning activities for this course are outlined below. Learn more about the learning outcomes that apply to this course.

Policies and procedures

University policies and procedures apply to all aspects of student life. As a UQ student, you must comply with University-wide and program-specific requirements, including the:

• Student Code of Conduct Policy
• Student Integrity and Misconduct Policy and Procedure
• Assessment Procedure
• Examinations Procedure
• Reasonable Adjustments for Students Policy and Procedure
• AI for Assessment Guide

Learn more about UQ policies on my.UQ and the Policy and Procedure Library.