Course Syllabus

Instructor: A. M. Davis (they/them/theirs)

Email: amdavis4@uw.edu

Office Hours: by appointment via Zoom

Required Text:

  • Donald M. Ayers, Bioscientific Terminology: Words from Latin and Greek Stems (The University of Arizona Press)

Syllabus:

 

WEEK ONE

Monday, June 22nd – Introduction and Syllabus

Wednesday, June 24th – Introduction to Word Building

Friday, June 26th

 

WEEK TWO

Monday, June 29th – Greek Suffixes + Greek Prefixes, Pre-Hippocratic Medicine

Wednesday, July 1st – Homer’s Bioscientific Vocabulary

Friday, July 3rd – NO CLASS TODAY (UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY)

 

WEEK THREE

Monday, July 6th

Wednesday, July 8th – Test 1

Friday, July 10th

 

WEEK FOUR

Monday, July 13th – Classical Mythology

Wednesday, July 15th – Greek Plurals

Friday, July 17th – Thucydides’ Plague

 

WEEK FIVE

Monday, July 20th – Dinosaurs

Wednesday, July 22nd – Test 2

Friday, July 24th – Latin Basics and Prefixes

 

WEEK SIX

Monday, July 27th – Latin Suffixes

Wednesday, July 29th – Galen

Friday, July 31st – Latin and Greek Medieval Science

 

WEEK SEVEN

Monday, August 3rd

Wednesday, August 5th – Test 3

Friday, August 7th

 

WEEK EIGHT

Monday, August 10th – Applying Skills: Plants (On Your Own Field Trip)

Wednesday, August 12th – Latin Nouns and Phrases

Friday, August 14th

 

WEEK NINE

Monday, August 17th

Wednesday, August 19th – STUDY DAY

Friday, August 21st – Test 4

  • On Lessons 31–40
  • Due today by 11:59pm PST

 

 

I reserve the right to modify the syllabus at any time; however, notice will be given.

Course Summary:

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