Registration for new families will open March 1.

The classes offered for the 2010-2011 school year are:

Introduction to Latin: This course is for students 13 years old and older who would like a solid foundation in Latin before starting the high school Latin I course.

Latin 1: The Latin I Tutorial covers most of basic grammar and syntax and includes readings in Latin. 

Prerequisite: This course is for students 14 years old and older.

Latin 2: This course covers the remainder of the grammar in Wheelock's Latin and include readings in classical and medieval Latin, including the Vulgate Bible.

Prerequite: Latin I or equivalent (recent completion of the material covered in chapters 1-25 of Wheelock's Latin).

Latin 3: The emphasis for this course is to enable students to read a wide variety of ancient Roman and medieval authors.

Prerequisite: Latin 1 and 2 or their equivalent (completion of Latin grammar).

Latin 4: This course is for advanced Latin students, ready to delve directly into some of the great authors who wrote in Latin. Readings for this course will be from Augustine's Confessions and Virgil's Aeneid. 

Prerequisite: Latin 3 or equivalent.

Introductory Logic: This course for students 13 and up will teach students the basic principles of logic, both introductory and intermediate. It covers basic logical syllogisms and fallacies, and symbolic logic.

Prerequisite: Students must be 13 years old or older.

Introduction to Great Books: This one year course will prepare students ages 13 and up for the Great Books tutorials. Students will learn the historical and cultural context in which the ancient Greeks and Romans wrote, including the important people, places, authors, battles and stories which influenced the authors and content of the Great Books course.

Prerequisite: Students must be 13 years old or older.

Great Books 2: This course covers Roman literature and history. The authors for this year include Virgil, Cicero, Livy, Tacitus, Suetonius, Eusebius, Athanasius and others.

Prerequisite: Great Books 1 (or by special arrangement).

Great Books 4: This course covers early modern authors (1600-1900). The authors and books for this year include Dickens, Austen, Milton, Bunyan, Calvin, and Dostoevsky.

Prerequisite: Great Books 2 or 3 (or by special arrangement).

Important change: Beginning this year, Artesian Wells is not offering all the years of the Great Books course simultaneously, due to schedule constraints. While this is a significant change, we will be alternating the even and odd numbered classes, so a student that enters the Intro class this year (or Great Books 1 next year) would still be able to proceed through the classes in the planned order.

The format: Artesian Wells uses WebEx, a live conferencing software. The format makes use of chat, audio, and other teaching tools such as a interactive whiteboard.

The tutors:

Aaron Wells was born and raised in Bishop, California. He has a B.A. in Liberal Arts and Culture from New St. Andrews College in Moscow, ID. He was home-schooled through high school, while also taking classes in the Great Books, Latin, and Rhetoric from his father-in-law Wes Callihan of Schola Classical tutorials. For three years, Aaron taught Latin, History, and Literature at Logos Christian Academy in Fallon, Nevada. This will be his fourth year of teaching online. He especially enjoys good literature, history, and baseball.

Emily Wells has studied Latin for over 9 years with her father, Wes Callihan, and successfully completed the intensive Latin and Greek courses led by the classical languages professor at New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho. She has taught Latin for 10 years in homeschool classes, tutorial sessions, and at Veritas Academy (a classical Christian school in Lancaster, PA); this year will be her seventh year of teaching online tutorials.  She has recently cut back on teaching time in order to raise the latest addition to the Wells family, Henry Wesley Wells.

For references, either of the tutors can put you in contact with the following people:

Wesley Callihan
Dr. Peter Leithart
Tim Tucker
Jeff Wells