311 Schools and Learning in the Medieval World. (Crosslisted with History, Medieval, Classics) 3 cr. An introduction to the various forms of education in the Middle Ages and their effect in shaping the childhood and adolescent experience of literate medieval men and women. Some attention will also be given to the medieval origins of such modern educational institutions as the public grammar school and the University. P: Jr st or cons inst.
322 Ancient and Medieval Science. (Crosslisted with Medieval) 3 cr. Scientific ideas and institutions from the beginnings of Greek philosophy to the Renaissance. P: Jr st or cons inst. Grads must enroll concurrently in Hist Sci 622.
323 The Scientific Revolution: From Copernicus to Newton. (Crosslisted with History) 3 cr. An introduction to the formative period of modern science, including major ideas and events in the physical and life sciences from Copernicus to Newton. P: Jr st or cons inst. Grads enroll concurrently in Hist Sci 623.
324 Science in the Enlightenment. (Crosslisted with History) 3 cr. Development and triumph of Newton's gravitational law; the conceptual revolution in chemistry; earth history and the move from religious to natural cosmologies. 4th credit requires extra work. P: Jr st.
325 History of Physics: The Classical Period. 3 cr. Major themes in the development of physics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. P: Jr st.
326 History of Physics: The Modern Period. 3 cr. Major themes in the development of physics in the twentieth century. P: Jr st.
331 Science, Medicine and Religion. (Crosslisted with Med Hist, Relig St) 3-4 cr. Science, medicine and religion from antiquity to the present, with emphasis on Western civilization. P: Jr st and cons inst.
333 History of Modern Biology. (Crosslisted with Med Hist) 3 cr. Survey of major developments in biology and related sciences ca. 1700-1950. Topics include morphology and embryology; evolutionary theory, ecology, and genetics; physiology and recent experimental biology. P: Jr st or cons inst.
337 History of Technology. 3 cr. A survey of Western technology within its social and cultural context during the past 1000 years. Topics include technology in European expansion, the industrial revolution, and the rise of the United States as a technological superpower. P: Jr st or cons inst. Grads must enroll concurrently in Hist Sci 637.
339 Technology and Its Critics Since World War II. 3 cr. Examines expert and popular criticism of technology from World War II to the present. Topics include atomic fallout, consumer society, Ralph Nader's critique of auto safety, environmentalism, the movement against nuclear power, critics in the counterculture, and appropriate technology. P: Jr st or cons inst. Grad stdts must enroll concurrently in Hist Sci 639.
343 The Darwinian Revolution. 3 cr. Scientific, social, religious and related dimensions of the evolution hypothesis from predarwinian speculation and Darwin's own work to later support, criticism and continuing investigation. Coverage reaches into the twentieth century. P: Jr st or cons inst.
350 Special Topics in the History of Science. 2-3 cr. P: So honors or Jr st.
353 History of Ecology. (Crosslisted with Envir St) 3 cr. The development of the science of ecology and related scientific issues and social attitudes, with a primary emphasis on developments from the late nineteenth century to the present. P: Jr st or cons inst.
394 Science in America. (Crosslisted with History, Med Hist) 3 cr. From the colonial period to the present; emphasis on the development of scientific institutions and the influence of science on American life. P: Jr st or cons inst.
401 History of Pharmacy. (Crosslisted with S&A PHM) 2 cr. Pharmaceutical field, from antiquity to modern medical care; professional; structuring in principal countries of the West. P: Jr st or cons inst.
411 History of American Technology. (Crosslisted with History) 3-4 cr. Survey of the history of American technology focusing on changing technologies of production and distribution from the colonial period to the near-present. P: So st.
431 Childbirth in the United States. (Crosslisted with Women St, Med Hist) 3 cr. American women's childbirth experiences from the colonial period to the present. Childbirth as a cultural as well as a biological event. Basic physiological information for understanding and evaluating changing approaches to pregnancy and childbirth. P: Women St 103 or 430 or equiv; or cons inst.
444 Health and Social Welfare in Western Society. (Crosslisted with Geog, Med Hist) 3 cr. The rise of public concern for human well-being in the European nations from preliterate society to the twentieth century. Greek individualism and Christian charity, the shift from ecclesiastical to secular responsibility, the sanitary movement and development of a scientific basis for public health, and emergence of contemporary public health issues. P: So st.
473 History of Mathematics. (Crosslisted with Math) 3 cr. An historical survey of the main lines of mathematical development. P: Cons inst.
504 Society and Health Care in American History. (Crosslisted with Med Hist, History) 3 cr. Lecture-seminar. Health care in America since the colonial period; emphasis on social developments. P: Jr st & cons inst.
507 Health, Disease and Healing I. (Crosslisted with Med Hist, History) 3-4 cr. Medicine in Europe from antiquity to the 18th century, investigating changes in medical ideas, institutions, practices, and organization. P: Jr st.
508 Health, Disease and Healing II. (Crosslisted with Med Hist, History) 3-4 cr. Medicine in Europe from the 18th century to mid-20th century, investigating changes in disease and demography, state interest in health care, the medical professions, and both scientific and alternative medical ideas. P: Jr st.
509 The Development of Public Health in America. (Crosslisted with Med Hist) 3 cr Seminar. Health problems in the U.S. from the colonial period to the twentieth century; efforts made toward their solutions. P: Jr st & cons inst.
512 Galileo Galilei: Life, Writings, and Interpretations. 3-4 cr. Galileo's life and writings in political and cultural context. Special attention to the theory of motion, telescopic discoveries, condemnation by the Inquisition (including primary documents), and to contrasting interpretations of his work, motivations, and contributions. P: So honors or Jr st.
513 Environment and Health in Global Perspective. (Crosslisted with Med Hist, Envir St) 3 cr. Explores the historical relationships between environmental change and human health from the 17th through the 20th century. Topics include colonialism and disease, medical geography, urban pollution and reform, workplace hazards, environmental risk, and the anti-toxics and environmental justice movements. P: Jr st.
517 Monsters and Science: A History of Vertebrate Paleontology. (Crosslisted with Geology) 3 cr. This course will explore the history of vertebrate paleontology, concentrating on the 19th through 21st centuries. The shifting and sometimes uncomfortable relations between paleontology and other sciences, the arts and the public will be a major theme of the course. P: Jr st.
523 Race, American Medicine and Public Health. (Crosslisted with Med Hist, Afroamer) 3 cr. The course will provide historical perspectives on current dilemmas facing black patients and health care professionals. P: Jr or Sr st.
524 The Medical History of Sex and Sexuality. (Crosslisted with Med Hist, Women St) 3 cr. Examines the changing place of medicine and scientific authority in public and private sexual lives. Highlights the role of medicine in defining appropriate sexual behavior, understanding the cause of sexual deviance, and treating sexual problems and diseases. P: Prev history (incl med hist & hist sci) crse preferred.
531 Women and Health in American History. (Crosslisted with Med Hist, Women St) 3 cr. Women as patients and as health professionals in America from the colonial period to the present. P: Jr st & cons inst.
532 The History of the (American) Body. (Crosslisted with Women St, Med Hist) 3 cr. This course demonstrates that human bodies have social and cultural histories. It will highlight the social values placed on different bodies, the changing social expectations bodies create, and the role of science and medicine in creating the cultural meanings of bodies. P: Women St 103 or other women's studies crse required; prev hist (incl med hist & hist sci) crse preferred.
534 History and Ideology of Environmentalism. (Crosslisted with Geog, Envir St, History) 3 cr. Historical survey of views of the natural world. Particular focus on the relationship of nature to society and culture, with an attempt to identify the significance and function of environmental ideas within broader intellectual and cultural movements and political ideologies. P: Jr st.
536 The History of the Social Sciences. (Crosslisted with History) 3 cr. Development of the social and behavioral sciences with emphasis on their interrelationships and larger intellectual background. P: Jr st or cons inst. Not open to stdts who have had or are taking Hist of Science 205.
543 Doctors and Delusions: Madness and Medicine in the Modern Era. (Crosslisted with Med Hist, History) 3 cr. Medical approaches to mental illness from 1750 to the present. Emphasis on how tension between biomedical and socio-environmental theories about psychopathology have marked modern psychiatry. Focus on Europe and the United States with global and comparative dimensions. P: Jr st or cons inst.
553 International Health and Global Society. (Crosslisted with Med Hist, Pop Hlth) 3 cr. Major problems in international health from 1750 to the present. Focus on disease epidemiology and ecology; political economy of health; migration; quarantine; race, ethnicity, and health care; international health research; cross-cultural healing; mental and maternal health; growth of international health organizations. P: Jr or Sr st, or cons inst.
555 Undergraduate Seminar in History of Science. 3 cr. Introduction to research in history of science. P: Hist of sci majors only-initial preference to Srs.
561 Greek and Roman Medicine and Pharmacy. (Crosslisted with S&A PHM, Classics, History, Med Hist) 3 cr. Greek and Roman medicine and drug lore from the Pre-Socratics to Oribasius (c. 600 B.C. - A.D. 350), including the backgrounds of ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian medicine. P: Jr or Sr st, or cons inst.
562 Byzantine Medicine and Pharmacy. (Crosslisted with S&A PHM, History, Med Hist, Medieval) 3 cr. Byzantine and Islamic medicine and drug lore from Oribasius to the beginnings of the Italian Renaissance (c. 350 - c. 1400 A.D.). P: Jr or Sr st or cons inst.
575 Clinical Medicine Since 1750. (Crosslisted with Med Hist) 3 cr. Lecture-Seminar. Development of clinical medicine in Europe and America from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. P: Jr st & cons inst. Previous hist of medicine crse desirable.
668 Topics in History of Medicine. (Crosslisted with Med Hist) 3 cr. Upper-level special topics course in the history of medicine. P: Jr st.
698 Directed Study. 1-3 cr Cr/N. P: Jr st. Graded on a Cr/N basis; requires cons inst.
699 Directed Study. 1-3 cr. P: Jr st. Graded on a lettered basis; requires cons inst.
713 Studies in Environment and Health. (Crosslisted with Med Hist, Envir St) 1 cr. Advanced readings in primary and secondary literature of environment and health, with emphasis on current historiographic issues. P: Grad st, or con reg in Hist Med 513 or cons inst.
720 Proseminar: Historiography and Methods. 3 cr. Philosophies, methods, and sources in the history of science, and their relations to the current state of scholarship. P: Grad st.
743 Doctors and Delusions: Madness and Medicine in the Modern Era. (Crosslisted with Med Hist) 1 cr. Advanced readings in primary and secondary literature of the history of psychiatry, with emphasis on historiographical issues. P: Grad st & con reg in Med Hist 543, or cons inst.
902 Seminar-History of Exact Sciences. 3 cr. P: Grad st or cons inst.
903 Seminar: Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century Science. 3 cr. P: Grad st or cons inst.
905 Seminar Modern Physical Science. 3 cr. P: Grad st or cons inst.
907 Seminar: History of Technology. 3 cr. Research and readings on a topic of current interest in history of technology. P: Grad st.
909 History of Biology and Medicine. 3 cr. P: Grad st or cons inst.
911 Seminar-Eighteenth Century Science. 3 cr. P: Grad st or cons inst.
913 Seminar-Social Aspects in the Development of Science. 3 cr. P: Grad st or cons inst.
915 Seminar: Science in America. (Crosslisted with Med Hist) 3 cr. P: Grad st.
919 Graduate Studies in Medical History. (Crosslisted with Med Hist) 3 cr. Three seminars analyzing the scientific and social aspects of the development of modern medicine in Europe and America; one seminar exclusively on public health. P: Grad st and cons inst.
921 Seminar-Special Topics. 3 cr. Offered occasionally. Topics not treated in regular courses. P: Grad st or cons inst.
925 Seminar: Research and Thesis. 1-3 cr. P: Grad st and cons inst.
950 History of Science Colloquium. 0-1 cr. Intended for graduate majors in History of Science and required of graduate majors in History of Science during their first two semesters. P: History of Science major; Grad st.
990 Research and Thesis. 1-3 cr. P: Grad st & cons inst.
999 Independent Work. 1-3 cr. P: Grad st & cons inst.