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The University of Latium
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The University of Latium is an elite tertiary institution in the surrounds of Alba Longa. Situated on Point Solor, in the former Palace of the Whales, the University of Latium is a highly exclusive postgraduate academy.
Offering a highly rigorous Master's in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE), with a joint component incorporating distance coursework from top universities across the world, the university's admission requirements are the most rigorous in Eras. Requiring a personal statement from a current government minister, or a known and ruling noble family in good standing, just to lodge an application, amongst unyielding academic and extracurricular considerations, the University of Latium takes in merely dozens of students. These students complete the degree over the course of two years full-time. The compulsory third year is spent completing the Latin Diploma of Military Leadership, accrediting them as the equivalent of an August military officer.
Lecturers at the University of Latium are amongst the finest in the world. Students undertaking the coursework of "Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Imperium and the Pax Latina", a subject designed to introduce postgraduate study of the social sciences in the context of the Pax Latina, will find themselves on a semester-long course incorporating live hour-long lectures from each Ordinary Magister, as well as a live lecture from his August Majesty, with commentary lectures from a Divine Servicer of the Augustine Household. Leading into "Pink Conservatism", managed and lectured at distance by the current August Librarian for Caesar Theodora Lysandra Augustus, the two subjects will equip students with an understanding of the underpinnings of Imperium's politics, framed by the people who define its development and preserve its histories.
The social life of the University of Latium is amongst its most important facets. Throughout the degree program, students are expected not just to contribute to student politics at the College, but will play roles in advising student politicians across Imperium, gaining honorary access to August student politics at the national level. Student societies at the University of Latium function not as merely addendums to academic life, but as finishing schools for future world leaders. There is no such thing as a Latin Society of, for example, Theatre - the materials and access for such things are made available as a courtesy. Instead, student societies are to be created as takes the fancy of attending students - they may create such societies for whatever means they require them. If one wishes for a Latin Society of Rhuvish Integration, one may have it. If one wishes for a Latin Society of Floregasquan Currency History, such is welcomed. And, to return to the previous example, a Latin Society of Method Acting would be more than acceptable.
Classes at the University of Latium are in accordance with the August school week, with the days Monday through Thursday being reserved for usual academic activity, and Friday being reserved for extracurricular activities, with any classes offered being optional, or as replacements for required contact hours. Staff are encouraged to have consultation hours available on Friday.
All we ask of our student societies is as follows: be ambitious, and do not fail to be ambitious. Students must be prepared to take risks - and to leave those risks to hang, where appropriate. The University of Latium expects the student body to be critical of and disappointed in those peers who hang to societies that hold no role but to organize peers into labels - we expect our societies to translate into the so-called 'real world'.
Students are required to take up residence at the University of Latium, in the Palace of the Whales. Students are organized into wings at the beginning of the school year, which correspond both to an administrative unit, and to the placement of their personal bedrooms. Bedrooms at the University of Latium are not shared. Wings are mixed-gender, and have a unisex residential space - this space incorporates student cooking, bathing, laundry, and leisure facilities. Note that leisure facilities per wing are intentionally minimalistic, incorporating seating, ethernet connections, and a small library including modern best-sellers. Other such leisure facilities are shared by the College, including the palace library, which includes a variety of books for leisure reading. Student wings are expected to create their own routines regarding meal-times and cleaning, and may request the purchase of equipment and supplies at their leisure.
As a courtesy, Friday meals are provided by the University of Latium - breakfast at 9:00, lunch at 2:00, and dinner at 7:00. These meals are taken outside either in the gardens of the College, or within walking distance on the beach, weather permitting, or else are offered buffet style in the Palace Ballroom. Students are, of course, welcome to forego the courtesy meals, for which menus will be provided at least 24 hours prior, but are still invited to have their meals with the greater student body, if at all possible.