Passing the study plan

Students must pass all 3 courses.

Students must obtain all 64 credits from the listed mandatory courses. In addition, during the course of their studies students must read selected Latin sources in the original and/or in translation. The ability to understand, read and interpret the original texts is checked in the given courses (individual readings) or during the state examination.
Reading in original (summary of all mandatory colloquia and courses): Vulgate: Genesis, Psalmi 1–41, Isaias 6–12, 56–66, one gospel, Epistula I ad Cor.; general knowledge of the whole text of the Bible, good orientation in the Vulgate and knowledge of the biblical books
Augustinus, De civitate Dei I; II; V, 1–8; VI; VIII; XXII, 30; Confessiones I; VIII; IX (state exam)
Philosophical and theological texts: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae – I,1 – carm.V; III, carm. IX; Seneca, Ad Luc. 1, 16, 47; Peter Lombardus, Super IV Sent. l. 3 d. 34 c. 4; Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae p. 1, q. 1; Roger Bacon, Opus maius, p. VI, De scientia experimentali (c. 1), p. VII, Moralis philosophia (p. 1)
European and Bohemian medieval poetry: Carmina Burana 11, 16, 17, 41, 42, 44, 51, 74, 75, 100, 117, 123, 130, 131a, 136, 138, 143, 191, 196, 211, 219; Carmina Cantabrigiensia 14, 23, 27; Fejfalik V (Recedite, recedite), VII (Fuit una domina), VIII (Si vis ad amasiam), X (Filia, si vox tua); Gualterus de Castellione – Alexandreis I, 1–202
European and Bohemian medieval historiography: Cosmae Pragensis Chronica Bohemorum I; Beda Venerabilis, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum I, 1; II, 9, 12–16; III, 1–3; IV, 17–18, 22; Einhardus, Vita Caroli Magni; Peter of Zittau, Chronicon Aulae regiae I, 94–104, 108–109
European and Bohemian hagiography: Christiani monachi Vita et passio sancti Venceslai et sanctae Ludmilae avae eius; Versus de passione sancti Adalberti; Legenda aurea 22 (De sancto Nicolao), 87 (De Epiphania Domini), 662 (De sancto Francisco)
Medieval exempla: Petrus Alphonsi, Disciplina clericalis (exempla 1-20); Gesta Romanorum (5 selected exempla); Caesarius of Heisterbach, Dialogus miraculorum (10 selected exempla)
Humanistic literature: J. A. Comenius, Schola infantiae, chap. 4, 6-8, 11, 12; Bohuslav Hasištejnský, Carmina 83, 200, 316; Matouš Collinus, De peste; Jan Campanus Vodňanský, De exundatione Vultavae, In ventrem, Anni 1601 descriptio; Alžběta Johanna Westonia, De inundatione Pragae.

Reading in translation:
Seneca, Epistolae morales ad Lucilium (selection); Pliny the Elder, Natural history (selection); Lucan, On the Civil War (book 1. and 6.); Martial, Selected Epigrams; Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory (books 1., 2. and 10.); Statius, Thebais (book 12); Silvae (selection); Marcus Aurelius, Meditations; Macrobius, Saturnalia.
Book of Revelation; Augustine, On Christian Doctrine; Jerome, Selected Letters; Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, The Plays; Thietmar of Merseburg, The Chronicle; Golden Legend (100 pages); Erasmus of Rotterdam, In Praise of Folly; Comenius, Unum necessarium. The One Thing Needed.

Students are obliged to demonstrate their proficiency in Latin language and literature as prescribed by the following colloquia of the BA programme: Cicero: In Catilinam I; Pro Archia poeta; Laelius de amicitia; Tusculanae disputationes I. Vergilius: Aeneis I, II, IV, VI; Bucolica I, IV; Georgica I 1–5, II 458–474. Ovidius: Metamorphoses I 1–415; II 1–328; III; IV 55–166; VI 143–381;VIII 183–235, 616–724; X 1–77; XV 871–887.

Students must obtain 7 credits for selective courses, which they choose according to their interest and profile. Credits obtained above the limit of the mandatory courses may be counted here. Any course from the Faculty of Arts can be chosen as a selective course. It is recommended to choose from courses close to student's specialization or theoretical courses; the following is only an example.