Latin I

Latin I is a first-pass at reading a dead language by building it from the inside out: you learn how Latin encodes meaning through endings rather than word order, so most of the work is internalizing declensions, conjugations, and case logic until short passages start to parse. The semester moves through roughly fifteen Wheelock chapters with steady homework, quizzes, and a midterm, meaning the load is cumulative — miss a week of paradigms and the next chapter stops making sense. For archaeology students it's the gateway to reading inscriptions and Roman sources in the original, and it pairs naturally with a Latin II continuation for anyone heading toward classical or medieval material.