WOMEN AND HEALTH IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Natural Science & Wellness + Lab Breadth - Biological Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Summarize how and why women's experiences of health and illness have changed over time. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Recognize how and why experiences of health and illness vary among women. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Interrogate how historical, social, cultural, and political forces shape the experience of health and illness. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Determine the varied ways women have shaped the experience of health and illness as patients, activists, advocates, and health care workers. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Integrate historical research skills and learn to craft and develop arguments from primary sources. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Recognize and describe general trends in the history and the historiography of women's health. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Summarize how and why women's experiences of health and illness have changed over time. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Recognize how and why experiences of health and illness vary among women. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Interrogate how historical, social, cultural, and political forces shape the experience of health and illness. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Determine the varied ways women have shaped the experience of health and illness as patients, activists, advocates, and health care workers. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Integrate historical research skills and learn to craft and develop arguments from primary sources. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Recognize and describe general trends in the history and the historiography of women's health. Audience: Graduate