Birth to Death: Life Course and Family History

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Prereq: 6 credits from HIST at the 1/2000 level; or permission of the Department This course explores the cultural and demographic history of individuals, families, and stages of the life course, from infancy to the experience of death and dying. Life course and family history thus overlaps with gender history, the history of medicine, and legal history. Topics include: sexuality and sexual orientation, education, and old age. It focuses on North America from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, but also draws comparisons to Western European patterns, and is situated in the context of world population history. (Format: Lecture 3 Hours)