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
- Prepare Lessons 1 and 2
Friday, June 26th
- Prepare Lessons 3 and 4
- Homework 1 due today
WEEK TWO
Monday, June 29th – Greek Suffixes + Greek Prefixes, Pre-Hippocratic Medicine
- Prepare Lessons 5 and 6
Wednesday, July 1st – Homer’s Bioscientific Vocabulary
- Prepare Lessons 7 and 8
Friday, July 3rd – NO CLASS TODAY (UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY)
WEEK THREE
Monday, July 6th
- Prepare Lessons 9 and 10
Wednesday, July 8th – Test 1
- On Lessons 1–10
- Due today by 11:59pm PST
Friday, July 10th
- Prepare Lessons 11 and 12
WEEK FOUR
Monday, July 13th – Classical Mythology
- Prepare Lessons 13 and 14
Wednesday, July 15th – Greek Plurals
- Prepare Lessons 15 and 16
Friday, July 17th – Thucydides’ Plague
- Prepare Lessons 17 and 18
- Homework 2 due today
WEEK FIVE
Monday, July 20th – Dinosaurs
- Prepare Lessons 19 and 20
Wednesday, July 22nd – Test 2
- On Lessons 11–20
- Due today by 11:59pm PST
Friday, July 24th – Latin Basics and Prefixes
- Prepare Lessons 21 and 22
WEEK SIX
Monday, July 27th – Latin Suffixes
- Prepare Lessons 23 and 24
Wednesday, July 29th – Galen
- Prepare Lessons 25 and 26
- Homework 3 due today
Friday, July 31st – Latin and Greek Medieval Science
- Prepare Lessons 27 and 28
WEEK SEVEN
Monday, August 3rd
- Prepare Lessons 29 and 30
Wednesday, August 5th – Test 3
- On Lessons 21–30
- Due today by 11:59pm PST
Friday, August 7th
- Prepare Lessons 31 and 32
- Watch Lessons 33 and 34 lecture (I have combined Lessons 31–34 together as 1 lecture)
WEEK EIGHT
Monday, August 10th – Applying Skills: Plants (On Your Own Field Trip)
- Prepare Lessons 33 and 34
Wednesday, August 12th – Latin Nouns and Phrases
- Prepare Lessons 35 and 36
- Homework 4 due today
Friday, August 14th
- Prepare Lessons 37 and 38
WEEK NINE
Monday, August 17th
- Prepare Lessons 39 and 40
- Homework 5 due today
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.