The Classics Department of Augustana College

CL 111: Greek and Latin for Science

Just one credit.  No suffix.  No fun unless you're sort of compulsive.

Goals

Grades

Schedule

Textbook

Instructor

Goals of the course: To help in reading and remembering vocabulary of the life sciences, and then in reading general collegiate and professional sources.

Grading of the course: Six microquizzes @ 12% each + one megaloquiz @ 28%

The Schedule for Spring Term, 2002-03

We meet on Tuesdays at Period 4 (from 10:30 - 11:20 A.M.) in Old Main 122.

Date

Class Topic

A Quiz on Chapters

March 11

General Orientation
  

March 18

Chapters 1, 2, 3, and concepts of word-formation

March 25

Chapters 4, 5, 6, and concepts of linguistic change

1, 2, 3, and the prefixes of 1, 2. & 3

April 1

Chapters 7. 8, 9, and Greek and Latin plurals

4, 5, 6, and the prefixes of 1, 2, & 3

April 8

Chapters 10, 11, 12, and Declension I

7, 8, 9, and the prefixes of 1, 2, & 3

April 15

 Chapters 13, 14, 15, and Declensions II and III

 10, 11, 12, and the prefixes of 1, 2, & 3

April 22

No class for us...

..because this Tuesday is a post-Easter "Monday" at Augustana.

April 29

Chapters16, 17, 18 and prefixes of 21, 22 and 23 and adjectives

13, 14, 15, and the prefixes of 1, 2, & 3

May 6

Chapters 35, 36, 38, 39, and Practice for the Last Quiz

16, 17, 18, and the prefixes of 1, 2, 3, & 21

May 13

The Farewell Megaloquiz

 Bases in 35, 36, 38, 39 (not 37)
Prefixes in 1, 2, 3, 21, 22, 23
Specified declensions

Textbook:  Donald M. Ayers. Bioscientific Terminology.  University of Arizona.

Connecting:   I'm Thomas Banks, Professor of Classics

Thomas R. Banks
Department of Classics
639 - 38th Street
Augustana College
Rock Island, IL 61201-2296


(Last update of this Classics 111 Page: 13 January 2003)