Overview
Description
Topical examination of developments in the practice and ideology of medicine in Europe and the United States from the late 18th century to the present.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed
- at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed
- Junior or Senior standing.
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed; at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed; Junior or Senior standing.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Core
CO9, CO13
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing.
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- explain how medical and scientific ideas and practices interact with social and cultural forces and concepts by describing specific instances.
- describe the connections between etiological concepts in medicine with dominant social and cultural concerns of a particular era and/or culture.
- compose a research project that illustrates the socio-cultural dynamics that influence a society’s response to epidemic disease, showing how new practices and technologies have shaped that response, using historical examples to elucidate a contemporary problem.
- demonstrate mastery of coherent writing in the English language.
- show that they have mastered methods of appropriately locating and evaluating sources for a research project, mastered the ability to frame questions for that project and to make an argument.
- demonstrate that they know how to appropriately document and cite sources.
- integrate the acquired core skills of communication (written and oral), synthesis, critique and analytical questioning, in their own analysis of scholarly works.