RACE, AMERICAN MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Civics & Perspectives Ethnic St - Ethnic Studies Breadth - Social Science 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 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify key developments, actors, ideas, and institutions in the broad history of race, medicine and public health in America between 1700 and 2000. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Analyze and write critically about primary and secondary historical sources by examining diverse interpretations of past events and ideas in their historical contexts. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Evaluate the ways in which ideas about race and assumptions about the meaning of racial difference influenced the care patients of color received and how they experienced their illnesses and injuries. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Understand how conceptions of race profoundly influenced the medical and nursing professions, as well as medical institutions (dispensaries, hospitals, and blood donation centers). Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Evaluate the different methodological approaches historians have used to analyze the multiple histories of race, medicine, and public health in the United States in the last two centuries. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify key developments, actors, ideas, and institutions in the broad history of race, medicine and public health in America between 1700 and 2000. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Analyze and write critically about primary and secondary historical sources by examining diverse interpretations of past events and ideas in their historical contexts. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Evaluate the ways in which ideas about race and assumptions about the meaning of racial difference influenced the care patients of color received and how they experienced their illnesses and injuries. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Understand how conceptions of race profoundly influenced the medical and nursing professions, as well as medical institutions (dispensaries, hospitals, and blood donation centers). Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Evaluate the different methodological approaches historians have used to analyze the multiple histories of race, medicine, and public health in the United States in the last two centuries. Audience: Graduate