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Instructor: Caden Hanrahan (he/him)

Email: kch1@uw.edu

Mailbox: ������ Dept. Office, Denny 262

Office: Denny Hall 400K

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11am-12pm or by appointment

������ 101 has for many years been a popular 2-credit course option for students throughout UW.  The course is designed to improve and increase English vocabulary through a study of the Latin and Greek elements in English, with emphasis on words in current literary and scientific use.  The Latin and Greek elements learned in this course will help you better understand how many English words have evolved, and prepare you to continue expanding your English vocabulary well after the class is over.  More than that, the course examines the ever-changing relationship between language and ideas in order to better understand the continuing impact of classical Greece and Rome on modern culture.  ������ 101 gives you a sense of the words, ideas, and stories that we have adopted from the ancient Greeks and ������s, and helps you identify classical influence when you encounter it.  Knowledge of Latin or Greek is not required.

The required textbook is Dominik’s Words and Ideas.

This course counts for the following General Education requirement:  A&H

Six sections at different times available, including this one.

Course Schedule: 

Week 1:

Tuesday, March 26^th - Syllabus Overview

• Review the Syllabus

Thursday, March 28^th &�Բ�����;– Introduction to Language History and Word Building

• Read Words and Ideas, Chapter 1: Word Building Basics

Week 2:

Tuesday, April 2^nd &�Բ�����;–Word Building

• Read Words and Ideas, Chapter 2: Word Building Tools: Greek Components

Thursday, April 4^th &�Բ�����;– Mythology

• Hesiod Reading (Canvas)
• Read Words and Ideas, Chapter 4: Mythology (p. 75-90, stop at the Trojan War)

Week 3:

Tuesday, April 9^th – Mythology

• Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Canvas)
• Homework 1 Due

Thursday, April 11^th – Mythology

• Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid Reading (Canvas)
• Read Words and Ideas, Chapter 4: Mythology (p. 90- end) (Trojan War- end)

Week 4:

Tuesday, April 16^th &�Բ�����;– Test 1

Thursday, April 18^th – Greek History

• Read Greek Historians Excerpts (Canvas)
• Read Words and Ideas, Chapter 3: Word Building Tools: Latin Components
• Read Words and Ideas, Chapter 9: History (p. 227-235, stop at Polybius)

Week 5:

Tuesday, April 23^rd &�Բ�����;– ������ History

• Read ������ Historians Excerpts (Canvas)
• Read Words and Ideas, Chapter 9: History (p. 236-end, Polybius- end)

Thursday, April 25^th – Greek Law and Politics

• Read Words and Ideas, Chapter 6: Politics and Law (p.145-151, stop at the ������ Republic)

Week 6:

Tuesday, April 30^th – ������ Law and Politics

• Read Words and Ideas, Chapter 6: Politics and Law (p. 151- end, the ������ Republic- end)
• Homework 2 Due

Thursday, May 2^nd – Commerce and Economics

• Read excerpt from “A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” (Canvas)
• Read “Zoninus Collar” (Canvas)
• Read Words and Ideas, Chapter 7: Commerce and Economics (p.169-187, the whole thing)

Week 7:

Tuesday, May 7^th – Test 2

Thursday, May 9^th &�Բ�����;– Medicine

• Read Words and Ideas, Chapter 5: Medicine (p. 105- 122, stop at Ophthalmology)

Week 8:

Tuesday, May 14^th &�Բ�����;– Medicine

• Reading on the Hippocratic Oath (Canvas)
• Read Words and Ideas, Chapter 5: Medicine (p. 122-end, Ophthalmology- end)
• Supplemental Reading on Silphium

Thursday, May 16^th &�Բ�����;– Philosophy

• Read Words and Ideas, Chapter 8: Philosophy and Psychology (p. 191- 206, Stop at Psyche)

Week 9:

Tuesday, May 21^st &�Բ�����;– Psychology

• Echo and Narcissus Reading (Canvas)
• Read Words and Ideas, Chapter 8: Philosophy and Psychology (p. 206- end, Psyche- end)
• Homework 3 Due

Thursday, May 23^rd &�Բ�����;– Literature: Love Poetry

• Selected Sappho and Catullus Poems (Canvas)

Week 10:

Tuesday, March 5^th – Test 3

Thursday, March 7^th – Final Exam Review

FINAL EXAM

Section F: Wednesday, June 5 10:30 AM – 12:20 PM SMI 307

*I reserve the right to modify the syllabus at any time*