HIST 2750 - Disease, Medicine, and Society in Europe to 1800

• Students will be able to describe how cultural values, ideals, and social mores influence the development of medical knowledge and medical practices in the past and today.
• Students will be able to explain the position of historical actors and their ideas within social, economic, political, and religious systems.
• Students will be able to identify and explain the role economics, social structures, and political ideas play in historical explanations of and responses to disease and illness.
• Students will be able to critically evaluate primary sources and identify the influence of social, political, or religious systems on the author’s perspective and position.
• Students will be able to investigate empirical evidence and then compare and contrast individual, communal, and institutional responses to disease and illness in the past.
• Students will be able to define ‘disease,’ ‘health,’ and ‘illness’ in a specific place and time and explain how religious and social systems informed individual, communal, and governmental responses to those concepts.
• Students will be able to evaluate evidence-based claims and communicate rational conclusions to peers and the broader community.
• Students will be able to explain primary terminology, concepts, and findings of the history of medicine in specific times and places.
• Students will be able to identify and describe conceptualizations of human biology and anatomy at different points in Western history.
• Students will able to construct thesis-driven arguments backed by evidence and will understand their arguments as reflecting, in part, their own historical experience.
• Students will be able to describe major events and individuals associated with the history of medicine.