Query: Courses in Etymology

[Eric Nielsen]

Cecilia A. E. Luschnig used to teach a class called "English Word Origins"
at the Univ. of Idaho. She retired some years ago, and I don't know whether
her successor took over for her.
It is still listed in their course catalog and as an independent study
course.

http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/isi/Syllabi/flen243.pdf

She authored several books on the subject:

http://www.amazon.com/Etyma-C-Luschnig/dp/0819125717/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_4

http://www.amazon.com/Etymidion-Students-Workbook-Vocabulary-Building/dp/0819148385/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_8

http://www.amazon.com/Etymidion-II-C-Luschnig/dp/0819193879/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_5

As well as one of the standard texts for learning ancient Greek:

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Ancient-Greek-Literary-Approach/dp/0872208893/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

I went to the U. of Idaho to study Systematic Botany, Geology, and Forestry
and ended up majoring in Classics and Microbiology. Of all the subjects I
studied, I found Classics to have the best teachers, IMHO. I didn't take a
Linguistics class until I went to the Univ. of Wisc., and then I was
thoroughly hooked: I've been a language dilettante ever since.

Eric

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:

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> At U. Minnesota Anatoly Liberman's Courses Taught list includes
> Honors Course: The Origin of English Words.
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> My course called "Structure and History of English Words" (and its
> predecessor, "Words and Meaning") has a lot of etymology (and etymythology)
> in it, but it's not an etymology course per se.  Other courses with similar
> coverage, such as those taught by Suzanne Kemmer at Rice and (if he's still
> doing it) Will Leben at Stanford are similar in this respect.
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> LH
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> On Oct 29, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:
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> > This is just for curiosity:  Does anyone know of any college courses in
> etymology taught in the U.S.?
> > I know that various scholars are interested in etymology, but does
> anyone actually teach a course
> > in it?
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> > I've been teaching one for some years now but am wondering if there's
> anyone else out there doing likewise.
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> > Gerald Cohen
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