LATIN at Cornell University

A suggested order for the 22 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate LATIN coursework.

• LATIN 1202Elementary Latin IIopens 9 courses (4.2 directly)
• LATIN 1205Intermediate Latin Iopens 8 courses (3.2 directly)
• LATIN 5212Elementary Latin IIopens 7 courses (1.5 directly)
• LATIN 2201Latin Proseopens 6 courses (3.7 directly)
• LATIN 5215Intermediate Latin Iopens 6 courses (0.5 directly)
• LATIN 5221Latin Proseopens 5 courses (5 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate LATIN work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 22 LATIN and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 34 more LATIN courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in LATIN. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at LATIN 2210

  1. LATIN 1201Elementary Latin I
  2. LATIN 1202Elementary Latin II
  3. LATIN 1205Intermediate Latin I
  4. LATIN 2201Latin Prose
  5. LATIN 2207Conversational Latin
  6. LATIN 2210Conversational Latin II

• 5 courses deep, ending at LATIN 5223

  1. LATIN 5211Elementary Latin I
  2. LATIN 5212Elementary Latin II
  3. LATIN 5215Intermediate Latin I

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on LATIN sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Charles Brittain
• Courtney Roby
• Eric Rebillard
• Michael Fontaine

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under LATIN yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

LATIN does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Cornell campus feed.