Does anyone know of a university that will be teaching Greek or Latin courses remotely (online) this fall? I am enrolled to take first year Greek this summer from the University of Colorado (Boulder) online, but this fall all their Classics courses are returning to an in-person format. (The fall schedule there shows two Greek courses being offered remotely, but I contacted the professor, and she said that is no longer the case.)
I would like to move to Boulder and spend the rest of my productive retirement years studying the Classics, but right now real estate is moving slowly, so I’m stuck for now in my home in Louisiana. In the meantime, I would love to find a way to continue my studies remotely with a university.
Thanks for much! I will check it out, though I am mainly interested in taking a few courses online while preparing to move to Boulder (or elsewhere) where I can take courses in person.
This is a recorded set of lectures on ancient Greek. I use the course myself to review Greek inflections, especially of the verbs.
It’s possible to work your way through a Greek textbook, on your own. I suggest you spend a little time reading this list to see how others are doing things, and to learn about the various possibilities.
Catholic University of America offers beginning and intermediate Latin and Greek online every summer through their summer classics program. The courses are fully synchronous though and not conducive to a regular life if you have a job. Catholic Distance University and Christendom College also offer Latin and Greek online, the former in most terms and the latter in the summer. These both focus on ecclesiastical/Biblical Latin and Greek however, so if classical is your immediate goal then you may wish to look elsewhere. Rio Salado community college in Arizona offers 4 full semesters of Latin online, and U Mass Boston offers Latin and Biblical Greek online almost every semester. Additionally, UGA has an online classics post-bacc which isn’t terribly expensive, and both Villanova and Kent State have fully online graduate degree in Latin/Classics, so they may be worth checking out.
The Veterum Sapientia Institute also now has very inexpensive Latin and Greek offerings online. They are not technically a college at this point, but do have provisional accreditation through I believe Pontifical Salesian University in Rome. I’m actually very interested in their program, but so far have been unsuccessful in getting them to return an e-mail.
The course I’m doing this summer at U of Colorado sounds much like the Catholic intensive program. It is indeed for people with no other commitments. It’s ongoing instruction beyond that level I’m interested in.
The universities you mentioned with online courses or programs are exactly what I am looking for. I will check each one out. Thanks!
Veterum Sapientia has started an online Diploma in Ecclesiastical Latin in partnership with Salesian Pontifical University of Rome, its about 30 US credit hours and requires Latin speaking and writing.
The university of Georgia also offers a post grad certificate in classics online. I don’t know anything about this other than it being on their website.
I’ve been looking at Greek courses for this fall and have found three options.
UW Milwaukee has online beginner and intermediate classes that are actual online classes, with face-to-face meetings. I’ve emailed the professor teaching the class and he seems like a very enthusiastic teacher.
And the other is through the University of Evansville. I also emailed the professor from this program and you’d work though the both volumes of the Athenaze textbook before moving on to authentic texts in higher-level classes.