VivariumNovumAccademia

Summer Latin schoolVivarii novi Scholae Aestivae

a new method for an ancient language

Costs and enrollment

The cost of enrollment for both courses, totaling eight weeks (fromJune 27th-August 20th), including room and board, textbooks, andexcursions to Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabia, Cumae, Ostia, andHadrianís Villa is 4,980 per person. A private room may be requestedfor an extra 500. Payments must be made in euros (cash, check,Paypal, or bank transfer). Credit cards are not accepted.To participate in only one course, the cost is 2,500 (with an additional

250 for a single room).

The price for both courses includes:-Lodging in a single, double, or triple room at the Academy VivariumNovum campus for the full duration of the course (58 nights from June26th to August 21st), with the possibility of using the pool, gardens, andplaying fields.-Breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day for the entire eight weeks, andbag lunches during the excursions.-312 hours of lessons held in Latin by didactic experts.-Five days in Campania with excursions to Pompeii, Herculaneum,Stabia, Cumae, and Paestum. Bus fare, entrance fees to archaeologicalsites, accomodation and meals.-Excursions in Latium to the excavations of Ostia and Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli.-Books and didactic materials.

It does NOT include:-Private excursions on Sundays.-Travels away from the Academy outside of the planned program.-Snacks in the cafeteria.-Soft drinks, aside from the water and wine which will be served at the table.

Students stay at the Vivarium Novum campus, where they will beserved breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily. Each room is equipped witha bathroom and a shower. Married couples may stay in a doubleroom. Total immersion in an environment where Latin is the onlylanguage allowed implies the need to live on campus.

To request admission one must complete and submit the applicationform. If there are any difficulties in downloading it, please send anemail to: info@vivariumnovum.it.

Available seats are limited. Each group will consist of a maximum of15-20 students, in order to enable individuals a positive learningexperience through active participation in exercises and discussion.To register for courses and reserve a spot, one must send the applicationform, along with a non-refundable deposit of 10% of the total priceno later than April 30th, 2010. Considering that the courses have arisenfrom the growing demand of many people throughout the entireworld, it is advisable to apply as soon as possible.

2011

8 Weeks of Intensive CoursesLearn to fluently read, write, and speak the language ofWestern Civilization.ROME, June 27th -- August 20th, 2011

The courses are open to students of every nationality. Tobe able to read Latin texts fluently is a skill that not onlythose who study classical literature need, but also thosewho study Medieval and Modern history, European literaryhistory, law, philosophy, the history of science, theology,and liturgy.

International summer Latin school

The method of Vivarium Novum: a little history

During the 1980s a group of young classicists in SouthernItaly began to gather around an old teacher and discussthe necessity of renovating the didactics of the classicallanguages. Young people from schools and universitiesfrom all over the world came to join them to spend yearsstudying Latin and Greek--two languages that hardlyanyone today manages to learn completely. From thediscussions held during that time arose the need to analyzethe course of history and the art of teaching Latin: Howdid the Humanists learn this language? How did Politian,Erasmus, Vives, and Comenius teach it? For this research,the students analyzed the most effective methods ofmodern language teaching: How was it possible that aparliamentary interpreter of Finno-Ugric languages couldlearn to perfectly read, write, and speak Hungarian in arelatively short period of time, but a high school student,after four or five years of study, could not comprehendeven the simplest of Latin texts without the aid of lexicaand grammars, and without having to translate itlaboriously into his own language? And yet studentsheard four, even five hours of lessons a week, dedicatingat least as much time to individual study.

The Academy Vivarium Novum has acquired a worldwidefame throughout the last decade for having studied,identified, and introduced methods of teaching Latin andGreek which may pose as a remedy to this situation. Ithas held international conventions concerning the topicfrom 1991 to the present day, with the participation ofthe greatest experts in the world. It has diffused in Italyand revitalized in Europe and the United States thecontextual-inductive method for teaching classicallanguages. It has founded an international school towhich students have poured in from every continent,where they acquire in a very short time a full and totalcommand of the Latin language.

Now the Academy is placing its acquired competencyfrom years of research and teaching at the service ofthose who wish to learn Latin with effective results andneed to do so in a rather short period of time. The courseutilizes specific teaching techniques, from inductionaccording to the natural method to the Total PhysicalResponse, and from "suggestopedia" to storytelling, aswell as the Rassias Method. Through active use of thelanguage--daily conversations and writing exercises--students may experience the method of teachingemployed in the Humanistic schools during theRenaissance. This mixed approach, tested for years bythe experts of the Academy, allows students to attain inonly eight weeks the results that normally require almostthree years of study.

Just imagine being able to read every singlebook written in Latin, from Cicero to the Vulgate,

from St. Augustine to Petrarca.

The classes provide for a totalimmersion in the Latin language. Theyare divided into two fundamentalcourses:

1. Latin I (from the first week to thefourth; 15 ECTS): dedicated to thosewho have no or hardly any previousknowledge of the Latin language.Students will learn morphology, syntax,and vocabulary (1,800 of the mostfrequent words), and will begin readinggenuine Latin texts (the Gospels,Catullus, Martial, Phaedrus, Caesar).Duration: 156 hours.

The courses

2. Latin II (from the fifth weekto the eighth; 15 ECTS):dedicated to those who haveattended the first course, LatinI, or who already possess anactive knowledge of thefundamental notions of Latingrammar and syntax, and whoknow at least the 1,600 wordsindicated in the lexicon ofBesanÁon. The students will betaught to read Latin authorsfluently in the original texts(Cicero, Sallustius, Livy, Horace,Seneca, Petronius, Pliny theYounger, Eutropius, Ambrose,Augustine, Erasmus, and manyothers). Duration: 156 hours.

Via Corrado Barbagallo, 20 00166 ñ ROMA (Italia)Tel. +39 06 66 58 98 33 +39 06 66 89 034Fax +39 06 61 00 72 66info@vivariumnovum.net

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Class times Excursions

For each of the courses, three lessons will be held in themorning from Monday through Saturday, and will last anhour and a half each. In the afternoon, students willdevote their time to studying the material covered in classand to the completion of daily assignments. In theevening, from 7 to 9pm, students will attend a final sessionof the day consisting of play-curricular activities. Eachweek a test will be administered to ensure that studentsare making adequate progress. Credits will not be grantedunless these tests are passed.

The schedule will be the following:8.00-9.00: breakfast9.00-10.30: first session10.30-10.45: break10.45-12.15: second session12.15-12.30: break12.45-14.00: third session14.00: lunch15.00-19.00: individual study19.00-21.00: play-curricular activities (dramatizations, music,linguistic games, use of audiovisual equipment, etc.)21.00: dinner

During the breaks a cafeteria service will be available.

Although students will have the afternoon (from 3 - 7pm)at their disposal, they need to realize from the outset thatthe courses are extremely demanding: they cannot expectthat this will be a little "vacation-study," or to only have todedicate a small part of their time to the amount of workwhich the courses require. They must scrupulously observethe times indicated and homework assigned, if they wantto successfully reach the goal. Sundays are free, andduring breaks it will be possible to take advantage of theplaying fields (basketball, soccer, tennis), as well as thecampus swimming pool.

Students of the Latin I course will spend five days (from July15th-20th) in Campania, during which lessons will be heldand students will visit archaeological sites including Pompeii,Herculaneum, Stabia, Cumae, and Paestum. During theLatin II course, students will take two trips: one to theexcavations in Ostia, the other to Hadrianís Villa in Tivoli.

Textbooks

For Latin I:Hans H. rberg, Lingua Latina per se illustrata: pars I:Familia Romana, Edizioni Accademia Vivarium novum,Roma 2010.P. Coosemans, H. Janssens, P. Maes, R. Vandessel, A.Vangilbergen, Quaderno díesercizi I, Edizioni AccademiaVivarium novum, Roma 2009.P. Coosemans, H. Janssens, P. Maes, R. Vandessel, A.Vangilbergen, Quaderno díesercizi II, Edizioni AccademiaVivarium novum, Roma 2009.Hans H. rberg, Luigi Miraglia e Tommaso F. BÛrri, Latinedisco, Edizioni Accademia Vivarium novum, Roma 2010.

For Latin II:Hans H. rberg, Lingua Latina per se illustrata: pars II:Roma Aeterna + Indices, Edizioni Accademia Vivariumnovum, Roma 2010.Hans H. rberg, Lingua Latina per se illustrata: Exercitia II,Edizioni Accademia Vivarium novum, Roma 2011.Enchiridion (materiale per i corsi estivi), Edizioni AccademiaVivarium novum, Roma 2011.