Program Description
July 2 - July 13, 2012
The Living High School Latin in Rome program is designed as a miniature version of Living Latin in Rome. It gives high school students from across the country the opportunity to work together using spoken Latin in the memorable settings of Rome. At the same time, it provides American secondary teachers who cannot attend the longer five-week program an opportunity to practice their spoken Latin and introduce it into their pedagogical repertoire. Each morning, students meet together in one class co-taught by our two experienced Latin-speaking instructors, Clem Wood and Bryan Whitchurch. Teachers join the upper-level Living Latin students for the morning classroom reading session. In the afternoon session, Clem and Bryan lead the students to an important monument in Rome, where they are joined by the teachers. Working in small groups of students and teachers, Clem and Bryan facilitate collaborative, spoken-Latin activities that integrate the Latin language and its literature with the monuments of the city.
Accommodation
For students: The Living High School Latin in Rome program is organized in collaboration with the Foyer Unitas' Lay Centre. Accommodation, meals and classroom space are provided by the Lay Center. The Lay Center is housed in one wing of a monastery hidden away in a beautiful park, dotted with ruins of a Roman aqueduct, on the Caelian Hill near the Colosseum.
Each student will have a single room with access to shared bathrooms in the hall. The instructors, and one participating teacher, will also be housed in the Lay Center to supervise.
For teachers: Teachers will be housed in apartments. Course participation includes one night a week assisting the instructors in supervising in the Lay Center as magister incubans.
Tuition and Fees
Students: Tuition, Room, and Board: $2750
Teachers: Tuition and Room: $1500
The price of tuition includes all site visits, transportation on day trips, a welcome and farewell dinner, transportation to and from Rome's Fiumicino airport, and all course materials. Students also receive three meals a day at the Lay Center.
Getting to Rome
All participants will be met at Rome's Fiumicino by Paideia Institute staff. Students traveling independently may make arrangements to travel with Paideia Institute Instructors from New York's JFK airport. The institute will provide transportation for all participants to and from Fiumicino to their accommodation.
Apply
Juniors and seniors with at least two years of high school Latin are encouraged to apply. Sophomores may be admitted by special permission. High School teachers who wish to accompany their students are encouraged to apply. For more information or to request an application e-mail: summerlatin@paideia-institute.org.
