History of Medicine
AS.140.105 (07)

Course provides an overview of the medical traditions of six ancient cultures; the development of Greek and Islamic traditions in Europe; and the reform and displacement of the Classical traditions during the Scientific Revolution.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

History of Medicine
AS.140.105 (08)

Course provides an overview of the medical traditions of six ancient cultures; the development of Greek and Islamic traditions in Europe; and the reform and displacement of the Classical traditions during the Scientific Revolution.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

History of Medicine
AS.140.105 (03)

Course provides an overview of the medical traditions of six ancient cultures; the development of Greek and Islamic traditions in Europe; and the reform and displacement of the Classical traditions during the Scientific Revolution.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

History of Medicine
AS.140.105 (06)

Course provides an overview of the medical traditions of six ancient cultures; the development of Greek and Islamic traditions in Europe; and the reform and displacement of the Classical traditions during the Scientific Revolution.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

Public Health in East Asia Through Films & Documentaries
AS.140.176 (01)

This course uses contemporary films and documentaries to address issues in public health in East Asia, past & present. Topics covered include medicine in turn-of-the-twentieth century Japan and China, revolutionary medicine, STDS, mental illness, HIV/AIDs in China, industrial pollution, the politics of universal health care insurance, and pandemics in East Asia.

• Credits: 1.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 22/50
• PosTag(s): n/a

History of Medicine
AS.140.105 (04)

Course provides an overview of the medical traditions of six ancient cultures; the development of Greek and Islamic traditions in Europe; and the reform and displacement of the Classical traditions during the Scientific Revolution.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/19
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

History of Medicine
AS.140.105 (02)

Course provides an overview of the medical traditions of six ancient cultures; the development of Greek and Islamic traditions in Europe; and the reform and displacement of the Classical traditions during the Scientific Revolution.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/18
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

History of Public Health in East Asia
AS.140.146 (01)

This course examines the history of disease, epidemics, and public health responses in East Asia from the 17th-20th centuries. This public health history emphasizes the interactions, connections, and comparisons among China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level:
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/20
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST

History of Medicine
AS.140.105 (05)

Course provides an overview of the medical traditions of six ancient cultures; the development of Greek and Islamic traditions in Europe; and the reform and displacement of the Classical traditions during the Scientific Revolution.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/15
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

Ecology, Health, and the Environment
AS.140.311 (01)

Explores diverse problems linking ecological, environmental and public health themes, with focus on Chesapeake region. Students’ research projects can be outside Chesapeake region.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): GECS-SOCSCI

History of Medicine
AS.140.105 (01)

Course provides an overview of the medical traditions of six ancient cultures; the development of Greek and Islamic traditions in Europe; and the reform and displacement of the Classical traditions during the Scientific Revolution.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/18
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

Experimental Bodies: Histories of Human Subjects Research in the 19th and 20th Centuries
AS.140.314 (01)

This course traces the history of human subjects research as a medical and scientific practice. It will focus on the human subjects themselves, and how their experiences intersect with the histories of race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Follow the money: Science, technology, and the ‘knowledge economy,’ c.1800-present
AS.140.322 (01)

This course examines the historical emergence of knowledge-driven economies, paying special attention to the funding, development, and use of science and technology for commercial purposes.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Psychopolitics: Science, Mind, and Society
AS.140.313 (01)

This course explores the history of psychiatry and the mind sciences as social and political institutions in the United States, from the country's founding to the present. Each class meeting will explore a set of "alternative facts" emerging in the setting of a landmark political dispute in US history. Students will read, discuss, and research claims made by competing scientific experts about who should participate in American society and to what extent. Overall, the course is geared toward students interested in making sense of the exchange between scientific knowledge and social politics.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/18
• PosTag(s): BEHB-SOCSCI, MSCH-HUM

Scientific Revolution
AS.140.321 (01)

Explore how the Western understanding of nature changed between 1500 and 1720 through the works of astronomers and astrologers, naturalists and magi, natural philosophers and experimentalists, doctors and alchemists & others.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/18
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

Debating Evolution: From Darwin to Sociobiology
AS.140.326 (01)

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution transformed the field of biology and raised profound moral and spiritual questions. We examine how Darwin’s ideas permeated not only science, but also literature, religion, the social sciences, and politics during the 19th and 20th centuries. We also explore debates about eugenics and sociobiology.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/19
• PosTag(s): BEHB-SOCSCI

Man vs. Machine: Resistance to New Technology since the Industrial Revolution
AS.140.356 (01)

This course analyzes different episodes of “luddism” in the history of science and technology, from the destruction of textile machinery in the early 1800s up to recent controversies about biotechnology and ICT.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): GECS-SOCSCI

Metaphor in Science and Medicine
AS.140.441 (01)

Science and medicine are permeated by metaphors. Generated by every domain of human experience, these metaphors embed scientific and medical thought in historically specific times, places, experiences, issues, attitudes and cultures. We will explore the dynamics of metaphorical thinking and examine such specific examples as “The Great Chain of Being,” Darwin’s “struggle for existence” and “natural selection,” the “reflex” from Descartes to Pavlov to cybernetics, body and mind as clock, factory and computer; illness as imbalance and invasion, and the metaphorical associations of tuberculosis and cancer.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Scientific Revolution
AS.140.321 (02)

Explore how the Western understanding of nature changed between 1500 and 1720 through the works of astronomers and astrologers, naturalists and magi, natural philosophers and experimentalists, doctors and alchemists & others.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/20
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

Directed Reading & Dissertation
AS.140.877 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level:
• Status: Open
• Seats Available:
• PosTag(s): n/a

Scripta Manent: Manuscript Cultures East and West
AS.140.461 (01)

This seminar looks at manuscripts both as physical objects and as cultural products, through an analysis of their ways of production, material features, and uses in different cultures and contexts. Meetings will be devoted to the codicology, paleography, and philology of manuscripts with a particular focus on the Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic traditions. Indian, Chinese and Japanese contexts will complement the focus of the seminar and provide elements of comparison and wider framing. The seminar will also address recently developed digital tools for the study of manuscripts and provide students with a set of skills and tools for approaching and using manuscript material effectively. The seminar will include hands-on sessions, with viewing of original manuscripts from the rich collections of the Sheridan Libraries and the Walters Art Museum.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST

Directed Reading and Dissertation
AS.140.863 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level:
• Status: Open
• Seats Available:
• PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Reading & Dissertation
AS.140.843 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level:
• Status: Open
• Seats Available:
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Research Seminar
AS.140.411 (01)

For majors pursuing independent research.

• Credits: 2.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): n/a