2010 Latin Immersion Summer Program

One session will be held from July 11-17 costing $895. This program is for rising high school juniors and seniors only.

Have you ever wished that you could speak Latin? understand spoken Latin? read Latin at the same speed you read English?

It used to be (before the advent of the twentieth century) that all students going to college had to be able to understand spoken Latin, speak it well, and write it well, for all teaching and learning was conducted in Latin. For this reason, Latin was taught for more than a thousand years so that non-native speakers of Latin could attain native or near-native fluency. Obviously, anyone attaining such “active” mastery of Latin would be able to read and understand Latin authors much better than those who today have only a passive understanding of Latin.

Christendom College offers two one-week, intensive, active-Latin immersion course for high school aged students designed to introduce aspiring Latinists to the beauty and power of the ancient language of the Church.

All classes will be conducted mostly in Latin, and students should expect to make substantial progress in active Latin, even in one week. Cost of the program, including room and board, is $895.

Dr. Mark Clark, Christendom’s Associate Professor of Classical and Early Christian Studies; Dr. David Morgan of Furman University, whose Morgan Lexicon is well known to all those wishing to achieve fluency in Latin; and Dr. James Dobreff, one of the top Latinists in the world, will be among the magistri.

Because no more than 30 students can be accepted in each session, those wishing to attend should register early.

Reserve your spot today!

One session will be held from July 11-17

Prior knowledge of Latin is preferred, although not required.

Once registered and paid, you may book a plane flight to arrive at IAD (Dulles Airport) the first day of the program, between 10am and 3pm, and to depart the last day of the program between 9am and 5pm. If you would rather fly into Reagan Airport, you must plan on taking the metro to the Vienna metrostop on the orange line, where a Christendom van will pick you up. If you will be DRIVING to the campus, please plan on arriving between 2pm-5pm on the first day.

Rules and Regulations / Items to Bring / Health Form / Arrival Information /
Dress Code / Release Form

Read "Bringing Back Latin" by Dr. Mark Clark, which appeared in the
December 2009 issue of Homiletic and Pastoral Review.

Watch highlights from a lesson:

Watch highlights from a play
written and performed in Latin by Christendom students:

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