Instructor: Caden Hanrahan (he/him)
Email: kch1@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
All class materials can be found under Modules.
Textbook: Donald M. Ayers, Bioscientific Terminology: Words from Latin and Greek Stems (The University of Arizona Press)
Quick Dates Reference
| Homework | Test |
| 6/27: Homework 1 Due | 7/11: Test 1 Due |
| 7/4: Homework 2 Due | 7/21: Test 2 Due |
| 7/18: Homework 3 Due | 8/8: Test 3 Due |
| 8/1: Homework 4 Due | 8/22: Test 4 |
| 8/15: Homework 5 Due | There is no final exam |
Full Course Schedule
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Monday |
Wednesday |
Friday |
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Week 1 6/23, 6/25, 6/27 |
Syllabus and Introduction |
Introduction to Word Building Chapters 1 & 2 |
Pre-Hippocratic MedicineChapters 3 & 4 Homework 1 |
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Week 2 6/30, 7/2, 7/4 |
Homer’s Bioscientific Vocabulary Chapters 5 & 6 |
Natural Philosophy Chapters 7 & 8
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NO CLASS 4th of July Homework 2 |
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Week 3 7/7, 7/9, 7/11 |
Hippocratic Medicine Chapters 9 & 10 |
Greek Diminutive Suffixes Test 1 Review Chapter 11 |
Test 1 |
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Week 4 7/14, 7/16, 7/18 |
Herodotus and Thucydides Chapters 12 & 13 |
Classical Mythology Chapter 14 |
Chapters 15 & 16 Unintuitive Meanings and Figurative Etymologies Homework 3 |
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Week 5 7/21, 7/23, 7/25 |
Dinosaurs! Chapters 17 & 18 |
Test 2 Review Chapters 19 & 20 |
Test 2 |
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Week 6 7/28, 7/30, 8/1 |
Introduction to Latin Bioscientific Vocabulary Chapters 21 & 22 |
Language History Chapters 23 & 24 |
Early Roman Medicine Chapters 25 & 26 Homework 4 |
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Week 7 8/4, 8/6, 8/8 |
Galen Chapters 27 & 28 |
Test 3 Review Chapters 29 & 30 |
Test 3 |
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Week 8 8/11, 8/13, 8/15 |
Medieval Science and Medicine Chapters 31 & 32 |
Alchemy Chapters 33 & 34 |
Latin Nouns Chapters 35 & 36 Homework 5 |
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Week 9 8/18, 8/20, 8/22 |
History of Scientific and Medical Naming Chapters 37 & 38 |
Test 4 Review Chapters 39 & 40 |
Test 4 |