All upper school students new to Baylor are required to take two years of the same language. These students must complete two years of the same language in those three years.
All courses are one year.
The first two years of these courses are designed to help the students learn the rudiments of accidence and grammar and build a working vocabulary. In the course of their language study, students also learn something about Roman culture. At the end of the second year, students begin to read excerpts from a variety of ancient authors. This course continues to build on the grammar of the first two years and begins to introduce students to matters of style and rhetoric. The course is based upon readings from a variety of Latin prose writers, such as Cicero, Livy, and Erasmus.