Intermediate Latin I · Classics
Workload: translations due each class (length varies), weekly asynchronous open-note quizzes, open-note midterm, ~500 word final project, open-note final. Emma also offered extra credit on the midterm and final!! And it was super attainable imo
one translation assignment per class, weekly quizzes, two midterms, final
It's really Milnor's workload, nothing too difficult. Pretty easy class, especially if you took Latin in high school.
Quizzes, exams, weekly translation Fair grading
1 large midterm, 1 large final, sporadic in-class quizzes meant only to gauge personal progress
Very, very manageable. We were asked to prepare a translation to go over in class the next day. It was never longer than 20 or 30 lines of poetry or a paragraph of prose. Weekly quizzes and a midterm and a final, which was only on texts covered in the second half of the semester.
I'm sure it's different for every course, but our was 4-6 pages of translation per night - which was do-able because she provided some vocabulary. At one point, when the translation got too heavy, someone commented and she reduced it. Midterm (translation of passages and essay), Final, Paper (5-7 pages). Totally fine.
Translations for each class (not checked but you should do them in case you are called on in class), weekly quizzes (alternating between oral and written), final exam (quite straightforward).
Emma is such a gem!! I absolutely loved my time in her class. She explained grammatical and syntactical concepts well for the most part, and would be welcoming of any translations we students would present. She also wasn't to strict on the way we would translate. She would occasionally incorporate extra readings along with translations, and our class discussions on these readings were really great. First half of the semester we read Cicero's Pro Archia, which was pretty tough to translate and took a lot of time, but was interesting to read and study. After that we transitioned to Catullus' poetry, which was a bit easier to translate and understand because some of the poems were based in Roman/Greek myth, which I was familiar with. It also related to some Lit Hum texts which was fun for all of the freshmen in the class to make connections to (me included). Overall while translating was tough the classes themselves were very laid back and informative. tl:dr Latin is tough as always but Emma made a Friday 10:10 class a good start to the morning
I agree with the previous reviewer about the cough drops and the general quality of the class, but I just wanted to add a little about Professor Jervis' grading. I spent the whole semester trying to figure out the way in which she grades and I still don't know. Particularly on quizzes, my grades seemed to be either given at random or I got the same grade on two quizzes where my performance was radically different. She grades easily, so it's not like it upset me, but I sure would have liked to know the system for distributing points. Anyway, Jervis' class is overall fine. We learned Latin.