Minor in Latin Teaching
(23–31 hours*)
This minor is designed to prepare students to teach in public schools. A teaching minor may only be received by students graduating with a teaching major. In order to graduate with this minor, students are required to complete Utah State Office of Education licensing requirements. To view these requirements go to http://education.byu.edu/ess/licensing.html or contact Education Student Services, 120 MCKB, (801) 422-3426.
Program Requirements
- Grades below C- in professional education courses or content courses will not be accepted in the teaching major or teaching minor. Teacher candidates must have a cumulative 2.85 GPA in teaching major and teaching minor courses to qualify for student teaching.
- Complete one of the following options:
- Complete the following:
LATIN 201 : Intermediate Latin.
(4:4:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Latin 102, 111, or three years of high school Latin. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Readings from Caesar, with a review and continuation of grammar. |
LATIN 377 : Secondary Teaching Procedures.
(3:3:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring On Demand |
| PREREQUISITE: | SC ED 276R; Latin 401 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Skills mastery, hearing, speaking, reading, writing, and identification of teacher-pupil activities required for conceptual learning. Lectures, demonstrations, and application of linguistic techniques to practical classroom requirements. |
Note: The Latin 302 course is the prerequisite for all 400-level Latin prose courses and the Latin 301 course is the prerequisite for all 400-level Latin poetry courses. Concurrent enrollment will be permitted only in rare and special cases and must have the approval both of the classics section head and of the instructor of the 400-level course concerned.
- Complete six hours from the following:
LATIN 411R : Latin Vulgate and Early Christian Latin Texts.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| PREREQUISITE: | LATIN 302 |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Topics include Latin Vulgate and selections from other early Christian Latin texts. |
LATIN 441 : Medieval Latin.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| PREREQUISITE: | LATIN 301 & LATIN 302 |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Study of particular periods (e.g., Carolingian renaissance, twelfth-century renaissance) or genres (e.g., historiography, epic, autobiography), or survey of medieval Latin. |
Note 1: One course from Cl Cv 246, 307, 340R, 362, or Clscs 430R may be substituted.
Note 2: Latin 411R may be taken only once.
*Hours include courses that may fulfill university core requirements.