THE HISTORY OF THE (AMERICAN) BODY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2023 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and summarize categories of embodied difference. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Analyze how embodied differences have shaped axes of power. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Examine how the experience of embodiment has shaped personal experience in the American past and present. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Integrate historical research skills and learn to craft and develop arguments from primary sources. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Apply historical understanding to current events focused on the body. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Recognize and describe general trends in the history and the historiography of the body. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and summarize categories of embodied difference. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Analyze how embodied differences have shaped axes of power. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Examine how the experience of embodiment has shaped personal experience in the American past and present. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Integrate historical research skills and learn to craft and develop arguments from primary sources. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Apply historical understanding to current events focused on the body. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Recognize and describe general trends in the history and the historiography of the body. Audience: Graduate