Jul 08, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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T3 4180 - Disease, Medicine and Society in Europe to 1800
Interdisciplinary approach to the history of disease and socio-cultural responses to it. Explores the medical history of diseases such as the Black Death, leprosy, syphilis, madness and cholera, from the ancient world to 1800 and the social, political, economic and religious contexts in which such diseases were defined and experienced. Particular focus on individual and institutional response to perceived “public health” threats in premodern world.
Requisites: HIST 1210 or 1220 and Sr only and completion of Tier II
Credit Hours: 3
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Have the ability to acquire increasingly complex intellectual skills.
- Have the ability to effectively present information orally.
- Have the ability to weave many complex strands into a fabric of definable issues, patterns and topics.
- Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
- Student’s work reflects an understanding the roles of race, class, gender, or ethnicity in history.
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