圣麦克大学

Your early Latin courses give you facility to read in the original timeless literature that challenges, expands and pleases your mind and soul. Other courses immerse you in Roman culture and civilization, sometimes through literature in translation. Many of these classes also help fulfill the college’s liberal arts requirements.

All Latin majors take a full year of Latin, and then must take four additional reading courses. You also have a choice of related courses in translation, whether from the Classics, Humanities, and History, Religious Studies or Philosophy departments. Our students also have read Saint Augustine in Latin with John Kenney, an internationally prominent Augustine scholar.

Your senior experience is a seminar, with the goal that you’ll be able to pick up and read and understand Latin literature on sight, without the help of the commentaries and dictionaries upon which you might rely in earlier courses.

Careers

Some Latin graduates go into law or medicine. One worked at a bindery for ancient Buddhist texts in California prior to attending a top library grad school. A graduate who ended up at dental school gratefully shared how he uses logical processes learned in Latin class to diagnose and analyze problems in his field. On the scholastic side, another recent graduate is specializing in Minoan civilization at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland; another is pursuing a graduate degree at Boston Colleges; still another recently completed a post-baccalaureate year at University of Pennsylvania (history graduate work in medieval studies).

The common theme is the solid foundation Latin helped them build.

However, some Latin graduates with an interest in teaching go on to get a master of arts in teaching either at Saint Michael’s or elsewhere. One program in Rhode Island enables you to live after graduation in community with others hoping to teach specifically in Catholic schools. We’ve trained future high school classics and Latin teachers, well-rounded businessmen and graduate students in classical languages, romance languages, ancient history, medieval history, philosophy and theology.