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Summer Intensives 2026

Emerson Latin's summer offerings are organized by Register — a designation indicating the degree of devotion each course demands. Students and families are expected to select accordingly and in good faith.

The Registers

Stage I — Latin Language Foundation

No prerequisites. Students with no prior Latin experience are welcome. Select courses are open to those at the intermediate or advanced level. Those who have already mastered Latin grammar should proceed to Stage II.

AP Latin Fast Track

Level: High School Register: III Duration: 8 weeks — June 15 to August 7, 2026 Schedule: Monday–Friday, 2–6 pm KST

The Fast Track exists for the student who arrives at Latin as a complete beginner and intends to sit the AP Latin Exam the following May. The first four weeks complete the whole of Latin grammar; the next four turn immediately to the prose and poetry required for AP. This sequence, offered nowhere else in its combination of speed and comprehensiveness, positions the student to join Emerson Latin's weekend AP Latin program in the fall term with the preparation the exam demands.

The grammar-translation method governs the first half, because it is the most efficient means of equipping a student to read Roman authors in the original. The second half moves into authentic Latin prose and poetry alongside the analytical work the exam expects. No acceleration is possible without genuine sacrifice of time. Those who cannot commit their summer wholly to Latin should consider another course.

Cambridge Latin

Level: Upper Elementary & Middle School Register: I Duration: 8 weeks — June 16 to August 6, 2026 Schedule: Tuesday & Thursday, 9–11 am KST

Cambridge Latin introduces younger students to the Latin language through reading — ancient Roman stories form the primary text, with grammar and syntax treated as tools for understanding rather than ends in themselves. The philological tradition that made Cambridge University's classical faculty formidable for centuries remains the foundation, but the emphasis falls on the pleasure and habit of reading Latin prose.

Two kinds of students find this course well-suited to their purposes: those who wish to arrive ahead of their peers when Latin begins at school in the fall, and those whose schools do not offer Latin at all but who intend to pursue international competitions in Latin and the classical humanities as part of a serious academic profile — for boarding school or university admission. Meetings continue once weekly when the fall term begins.

Oxford Latin 1

Level: Middle & High School Register: II Duration: 2 weeks — August 10–21, 2026 Schedule: Monday–Friday, 2–6 pm KST

Oxford Latin 1 employs a hybrid method, drawing equally on grammar-translation and the nature method. Its particular placement at the end of the summer intensive calendar is deliberate: students whose schedules could not accommodate an earlier start may still complete a full year's beginning Latin before the fall term.

The Oxford tradition — that Latin is not a technical accomplishment but the key to the great ideas of Western civilization — animates every class. Students encounter the philosophical questions that Rome's finest writers posed, not merely as an exercise in declensions, but as the beginning of a genuine intellectual encounter.

Oxford Latin 1 + 2 + 3

Level: Middle & High School Register: II

The three Oxford courses taken in sequence are equivalent to three years of Latin instruction at a boarding or independent school. Oxford 3 introduces authentic Roman poetry; upon its completion, a student is equipped to translate and analyze the Latin prose and verse that appear on the AP Latin Exam.

The program is designed for flexibility. Students may join at any level, complete one or two courses, and extend or conclude their summer studies as circumstances allow. It is intended primarily for students from boarding and independent schools abroad who wish to advance ahead of their classmates or consolidate their grammar before returning in the fall — not for students who will continue with Emerson Latin through the fall term.

Oxford 1

June 15 – July 3, 2026 · Monday–Friday, 6–8 pm KST · 15 classes

The first three declensions of nouns and adjectives in all six cases; present-tense verbs across all four conjugations including the third -io; the principal pronouns.

Oxford 2

July 6 – July 28, 2026 · Monday–Friday, 6–8 pm KST · 17 classes

The fourth and fifth declensions; the remaining verb tenses in active and passive voices; the principal ablative constructions; present and past participles.

Oxford 3

July 29 – August 21, 2026 · Monday–Friday, 6–8 pm KST · 18 classes

The subjunctive mood and its constructions; the ablative absolute; indirect statement; gerunds and gerundives. Authentic Latin literature introduced at the midpoint of the course, translated and analyzed in class.

Oxford 1 + 2 + 3 (Full Sequence)

June 15 – August 21, 2026 · Monday–Friday, 6–8 pm KST · 50 classes

Students may take any number of courses in unbroken sequence across the full summer period. The Oxford program does not carry the preparation demands of Intensive or ASAP Latin; what it requires is consistency and steady application.

ASAP Latin

Level: High School Register: III Duration: 10 weeks — June 15 to August 21, 2026 Schedule: Monday, Wednesday & Friday, 9–11 am KST

ASAP Latin covers the entirety of Latin grammar and syntax — material that consumes three years in a typical boarding school — across thirty class sessions in a single summer. Classes meet every other day, a rhythm that preserves the time needed to work through assignments with the care they demand.

The method is hybrid: half grammar-translation, half the nature method, so that the student develops analytical precision alongside growing ease with Latin as a living medium of thought. The pacing is aggressive; the structure is not. Each concept follows from the last with the logic of a well-ordered argument, so that even advanced grammar, when encountered, arrives with a sense of inevitability rather than difficulty.

Upon completion, students can translate and analyze authentic Latin prose and poetry at the level required by the AP Latin Exam, the IB, and the A-Level. This course is intended for students who wish to finish all of Latin grammar before the fall term — and to arrive at September with the foundations not merely learned, but understood.

Intensive Latin

Level: High School Register: III Duration: 4 weeks — June 15 to July 10, 2026 Schedule: Monday–Friday, 2–6 pm KST

Where ASAP Latin distributes its work across ten weeks, Intensive Latin concentrates the same substance into four — four hours a day, five days a week, for the first month of summer. It is the most compressed course Emerson Latin offers, and the most direct preparation for competitive Latin study.

The distinguishing feature is the immediacy of the encounter with authentic Latin. On the first day of class, students read Cicero, Vergil, and Augustine — in the original. Grammar is not a prerequisite to be satisfied before the real work begins; it is learned in the presence of the greatest writers who used it. This acquaintance with Rome's finest prose and verse, from the very first session, shapes how students understand and retain what they are learning.

Students who complete Intensive Latin may proceed directly to Authentic Latin Prose and Poetry in the following four weeks, positioning themselves to join Emerson Latin's AP Latin program in the fall. The decision may be made at the end of the four weeks, with full information about what has been accomplished.

Natural Latin

Level: Middle & High School Register: I Duration: 10 weeks — June 20 to August 22, 2026 Schedule: Saturday, 2–4 pm KST

Natural Latin proceeds by immersion rather than by paradigm. Students read accessible Latin stories with sustained repetition of grammar forms and sentence patterns, coming to understand the text from within rather than by grammatical analysis alone. It is the method most congenial to students who are natural readers — those who prefer to encounter meaning in context and build their sense of the language through volume and familiarity.

Explicit grammar is not neglected. Emerson Latin attends to it carefully at each stage, because international competitions require precise grammatical knowledge and the nature method alone does not supply it. The workload is genuine: reading is extensive, and the exercises that accompany it require sustained effort. What the course does not demand is the kind of intensive memorization characteristic of Emerson Latin's grammar-translation programs.

Natural Latin continues through the fall, winter and spring terms. Students may subsequently take the summer courses in Authentic Latin Literature and advance toward the AP Latin Exam.

Stage II — Authentic Latin Literature

Prerequisite: Completion of any Emerson Latin language program — Oxford, ASAP, Intensive, or Natural — or demonstrable command of the whole of Latin grammar and syntax. Both courses below are required before entering Stage III.

Pre AP Latin Literature

Pre AP Latin Prose

Level: High School Register: II Duration: 4 weeks — July 13 to August 7, 2026 Schedule: Monday–Friday, 2–4 pm KST

The move from grammar study to authentic Latin prose is a crossing that many students anticipate for months. This course makes it directly. Working from the prose selections required by the College Board, students translate and analyze each passage line by line, attending to every element the AP Latin Exam tests — multiple choice, short answer, translation, short essay, summary, and formal analysis.

Boarding schools that progress to authentic literature typically spend a full academic year on the ground this course covers in four weeks. The pace is demanding; the experience of arriving at genuine Roman prose with the tools to read it carefully is its own reward. This course is taken concurrently with Authentic Latin Poetry.

Pre AP Latin Poetry

Level: High School Register: II Duration: 4 weeks — July 13 to August 7, 2026 Schedule: Monday–Friday, 4–6 pm KST

Roman poetry asks more of the reader than prose — not only translation and analysis but an ear for meter, an eye for poetic device, and a willingness to attend to what a line is doing as well as what it says. This course develops all three. Students work through the poetry selections required by the College Board, mastering scansion, dactylic hexameter, hendecasyllabic verse, and the principal figures of speech — hendiadys, zeugma, chiasmus — that Roman poets employed with precision and purpose.

Every class produces practice with the full range of AP-style questions. The course is taken concurrently with Authentic Latin Prose, so that students complete both in a single four-week period and enter the fall term prepared for AP Latin.

Stage III — AP Latin & College-Level Examinations

Prerequisite: Completion of Emerson Latin's Authentic Latin Prose and Poetry, or equivalent preparation — one academic year of authentic Latin prose and poetry, with a letter grade of A.

AP Latin Prose

Level: High School

Register: II Duration: 8 weeks — June 15 to August 7, 2026 Schedule: Monday, Wednesday & Friday, 11 am–1 pm KST

AP Latin Prose covers every required letter of Pliny — completely, with the analytical depth the exam demands. In addition to the prescribed readings, students work through additional prose authors to prepare for the unseen passage, so that nothing on exam day arrives as a surprise. Each letter of Pliny becomes an occasion to practice the full range of AP questions: multiple choice, short answer, translation, short essay, summary, and formal analysis.

The course also prepares students for the two prose passage projects required by the exam and engages, through Socratic seminar, the major philosophical themes that can appear in the short essay. What a strong boarding school takes an academic year to accomplish, this course completes in eight weeks. It is ordinarily taken alongside AP Latin Poetry.

Year-round Emerson Latin students take AP Latin Prose and Poetry together in the fall term, meeting over the weekend in the months leading to the May examination.

AP Latin Poetry

Level: High School

Register: II

Duration: 8 weeks — June 16 to August 8, 2026 Schedule: Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday, 11 am–1 pm KST

Vergil's Aeneid is among the most formally accomplished poems in the Latin language — and among the most demanding to read well. This course works through every required book of the Aeneid with the attention to detail the AP Latin Exam expects, while also preparing students for the unseen poetry passage with additional poets studied alongside Vergil.

Scansion is mastered. Poetic devices are not merely identified but explained for their contribution to meaning. The course project requires students to produce the kind of extended analysis the exam demands. Socratic seminar explores the great questions the Aeneid raises — duty against happiness, reason against passion, fate against freedom — questions that have occupied serious readers since the poem's first audience. This course is taken concurrently with AP Latin Prose.

Advanced Latin Literature & Elite International Competitions

Prerequisite: A perfect score on the AP Latin Examination. For students who intend to continue in Latin at the highest level and compete in the most distinguished international contests in Latin and the classical humanities.

Ovid

Level: High School

Register: I

Duration: 10 weeks — June 20 to August 22, 2026

Schedule: Saturday, 6–8 pm KST

Ovid is the most surprising of the Roman poets — witty where Vergil is grave, swift where Horace is considered, alive to the comedy of human feeling in a way that has made him irresistible to readers across twenty centuries. The Amores offer love observed with a knowing eye; the Metamorphoses offers transformation as the governing principle of all things. Both reward reading at the level of attention this course demands.

The course is designed to deepen the student's capacity for independent engagement with Latin poetry at the most advanced level, and to prepare for international competitions beginning in the fall term.

Medieval Bible

Level: High School

Register: I

Duration: 10 weeks — June 20 to August 22, 2026

Schedule: Saturday, 9–11 am KST

This is a course in Latin philology and textual history, not Sunday school. Its primary text is the Gospel of Mark as rendered in Jerome's Vulgate — the Latin Bible that served as the authoritative scriptural text of the Western world for more than a millennium. Jerome's prose is accessible and narrative in character; the Gospel of Mark is among the most direct and vivid of the Gospels. The combination makes for a course that reads quickly and rewards careful attention.

Parallel passages from Matthew and Luke are introduced throughout, alongside historical and grammatical analysis that introduces students to the discipline of textual criticism as practiced in serious academic philology. The course proceeds at a pace befitting its place in the curriculum — a final encounter with Latin before university, conducted with the depth and ease that only complete grammatical mastery allows.

Successful completion of Emerson Latin's full language and literature sequence — from Latin Foundation through the Advanced courses — is the equivalent of the classical requirements for a university degree in Classics at a Western institution. It is the kind of formation that an American or European secondary student before the twentieth century would have been expected to accomplish as a matter of course.

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