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Latin Literature Course Requirements
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The AP Program unequivocally supports the principle that each individual school must develop its own curriculum for courses labeled "AP." Rather than mandating any one curriculum for AP courses, the AP Course Audit instead provides each AP teacher with a set of expectations that college and secondary school faculty nationwide have established for college-level courses. AP teachers are encouraged to develop or maintain their own curriculum that either includes or exceeds each of these expectations; such courses will be authorized to use the "AP" designation. Credit for the success of AP courses belongs to the individual schools and teachers that create powerful, locally designed AP curricula.
AP Latin Literature should be designed by your school to provide students with a learning experience equivalent to that of a college course in Latin literature typically taught in the fourth, fifth, or sixth semester of college Latin studies. The basic course objective should be to read, translate, understand, analyze, and interpret Latin in the original, with special emphasis paid to the development of Latin lyric and elegiac poetry as literary genres.
There are no specific curricular prerequisites for students taking AP Latin Literature, but students taking AP Latin are typically in the final stages of their secondary school instruction in Latin.
All students who are willing to accept the challenge of a rigorous academic curriculum should be considered for admission to AP courses. The College Board encourages the elimination of barriers that restrict access to AP courses for students from ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in the AP Program. Schools should make every effort to ensure that their AP classes reflect the diversity of their student population.
High schools offering this exam must provide the exam administration resources described in the AP Coordinator's Manual.
Requirements
To request authorization to label a course "AP," complete the following two steps:
- Complete and submit an AP Course Audit form, on which the teacher and principal attest that their course includes or exceeds the following curricular requirements delineated by college and university faculty.
- Submit an electronic copy of the course syllabus that demonstrates inclusion or improvement on the curricular requirements (see Syllabus Preparation Guidelines). If your course does not include one or more of the curricular requirements but merits designation as a college-level course, see Instructions for Submitting Materials for the process for describing alternate approaches to the course.
 Syllabus Preparation Guidelines
Instructions for Teachers
Instructions on how to submit AP Course Audit materials via the Web will be posted on AP Central and mailed to principals in January 2007.
Curricular Requirements
- The teacher has read the most current AP Latin Course Description, available as a free download on the AP Latin Literature Course Home Page.
AP Latin Literature Course Home Page
- The course is structured to enable students to complete the entire required reading list (as delineated in the AP Latin Course Description).
- The course gives students frequent opportunities to practice reading and translating as literally as possible from Latin into English the required passages from the reading list. All are read in Latin, except when noted in the AP Latin Course Description.
- The course gives students frequent opportunities to practice written analysis and critical interpretation of works by Catullus, and either Cicero, Horace, or Ovid, including appropriate references to the use of stylistic and metrical techniques by these authors.
- The course examines the historical, cultural, and political context of the literature on the reading list.
- The course provides frequent practice in reading Latin at sight.
Resource Requirements
The school ensures that each student has access to his or her own copies of the required works.
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