Course Description
Medical and Scientific Terminology, HIS 60
Trains students in the principles that will help them make sense of Greco-Latin scientific and technical vocabulary. Introduces Greco-Roman natural philosophy and its general cultural context, and explains the historical relationship of that tradition to the emergence of modern European experimental science and technology.
Key Information
Credit: 5 quarter units /
3.33 semester units credit
UC Santa Cruz, History
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit
UC Davis:
General Education: AH or SS.
UC Irvine:
Course Equivalence: UCI Classics 10
Major Requirement: can be used as Optional Course for Minor in Medical Humanities
UC Los Angeles:
General Education: GE-Historical Analysis, GE-Philosophical and Linguistic Analysis
UC Merced:
Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)
UC Riverside:
General Education: HIS Elective units
UC San Diego:
General Education: Warren - May be counted depending on major/PofC/AS; TMC 1 course toward lower division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major; ERC - Europe Regional Specialization course.; Sixth - 1 NAHR; Muir: 1 course in a Social Sciences theme in "Language and Communication"
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
Major Preparation: Likely major prep application toward lower-division History elective credit after petition
UC Santa Cruz:
General Education: PR-E
Course Fees
No course fees, and no texts to buy; all readings for the course are available for free on our course site.
More About The Course
In this class students will learn principles that will help them to make sense of Greco-Latin scientific and technical vocabulary; as the straightforward meaning of this terminology becomes transparent, they will find it easier to remember definitions, assimilate new vocabulary and construe meanings of new words when they encounter them. The class will also introduce students to Greco-Roman natural philosophy and its general cultural context, and explain the historical relationship of that tradition to the emergence of modern European experimental science and technology and its language. Thus the course aims to provide students with both tools and context to understand the historical roots of modern science and its language.
Course Creators
Charles Hedrick
Charles Hedrick, Ph.D.
Hedrick grew up in Los Angeles. After study in Cairo, Egypt and Athens, Greece, he took his BA in Classics at Pitzer College in 1978. After further study in Athens, he took his PhD in Classics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. He has taught at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, University at Buffalo, Stanford, Princeton and Oberlin College. Since 1990 he has taught at UC Santa Cruz, where he is currently Professor in the History Department. He is author of reviews, articles, chapters and books. His principal publications include The Decrees of the Demotionidai (Scholars' Press, now Oxford UP, 1990); History and Silence: Purge and Rehabilitation of Memory in Late Antiquity (U Texas Press, 2000) and Ancient History: Monuments and Documents (Blackwell, 2006). He is also joint editor of Demokratia: a Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern (Princeton 1996) and of the exhibition catalog, The Birth of Democracy: an Exhibition (Athens 1993).
Charles Hedrick, Ph.D. Hedrick grew up in Los Angeles. After study in Cairo, Egypt and Athens, Greece, he took his BA in Classics at Pitzer College in 1978. After further study in Athens, he took his PhD in Classics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. He has taught at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, University at Buffalo, Stanford, Princeton and Oberlin College. ...Charles Hedrick, Ph.D.
Hedrick grew up in Los Angeles. After study in Cairo, Egypt and Athens, Greece, he took his BA in Classics at Pitzer College in 1978. After further study in Athens, he took his PhD in Classics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. He has taught at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, University at Buffalo, Stanford, Princeton and Oberlin College. Since 1990 he has taught at UC Santa Cruz, where he is currently Professor in the History Department. He is author of reviews, articles, chapters and books. His principal publications include The Decrees of the Demotionidai (Scholars' Press, now Oxford UP, 1990); History and Silence: Purge and Rehabilitation of Memory in Late Antiquity (U Texas Press, 2000) and Ancient History: Monuments and Documents (Blackwell, 2006). He is also joint editor of Demokratia: a Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern (Princeton 1996) and of the exhibition catalog, The Birth of Democracy: an Exhibition (Athens 1993).
