3 credits
Spring 2025 Lecture Lower Division
Ninety to ninety-five percent of scientific technical vocabulary and medical terminology come from Latin and Greek roots and affixes. This course will enable students in scientific and medical disciplines to develop a foundational core of Greek and Latin roots and affixes from which they will be able to decipher and easily commit to memory the core terminology in the various sciences and medicine.
Learning Outcomes1Know the foundational core of Greek and Latin roots and affixes from which medical and scientific terminology has been derived.
2Decipher complex and specialized scientific and medical terms based on the knowledge of their Greek and Latin roots.
3Decipher unfamiliar terminology in their fields by learning how the roots combine dynamically to form words as scientific and medical innovation requires an ever-increasing need for new terms.
4Enable students to absorb information in their fields more easily by demystifying the complexities of their specialized vocabularies used in their disciplines.
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