SCIENCE, MEDICINE, AND RACE: A HISTORY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Civics & Perspectives Ethnic St - Ethnic Studies Breadth - Humanities or Social Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and analyze within their social, cultural and economic contexts key historical issues, and their significance, in the history of the idea of race as it relates to scientific and medical developments. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Develop an understanding of the mutually shaping interactions between ideas about race and perceptions of social hierarchy, health, illness and medical and anthropological categories. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Analyze the role of social factors like gender and class, among others, in shaping cultural realities related to race and body normativity. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Identify the role that scientists, physicians, patients, healthcare providers, scientific institutions and the state play in modeling, ideas about race. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Discern the impact of programs of global science as they intersect with international politics in the shaping of ideas about human rights, ethnicity, and race. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and analyze within their social, cultural and economic contexts key historical issues, and their significance, in the history of the idea of race as it relates to scientific and medical developments. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Develop an understanding of the mutually shaping interactions between ideas about race and perceptions of social hierarchy, health, illness and medical and anthropological categories. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Analyze the role of social factors like gender and class, among others, in shaping cultural realities related to race and body normativity. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Identify the role that scientists, physicians, patients, healthcare providers, scientific institutions and the state play in modeling, ideas about race. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Discern the impact of programs of global science as they intersect with international politics in the shaping of ideas about human rights, ethnicity, and race. Audience: Undergraduate