Word Etymologies: The Greek and Latin Roots of English One
Section Available to Choose From: |Course Dates||Weeks||Meeting
Times||Status||Instructor(s)||CRN| |July 01, 2013 - July 12,
2013||2||M-F 12:45-3:35P||Waitlisted||Elise Morse-Gagne||10003|
Did you know that from one-third to two-thirds of English words
use Latin or Greek roots? And in fields such as medicine,
science, and technology, that figure jumps even higher!
Familiarity with recurring word elements can help you learn this
vocabulary more readily, and even decipher words you haven’t met
before. This course is designed to increase your grasp of
English vocabulary by focusing on the Latin and Greek roots of
the English language. We'll spend the first week studying
derivatives from Latin and the second week studying derivatives
from Greek. Latin words are rife in medical and legal language,
while a knowledge of Greek words is especially valuable in
philosophical and religious contexts. We’ll practice identifying
and analyzing target vocabulary in ev