Spring 2027

Science, Medicine, and Race: a History

Survey medical and scientific constructions of race, examining racial theories in social, political, slavery, and colonial contexts.

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Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2021: 3.66 GPA, 78.9% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2022: 3.62 GPA, 90.7% A/AB (n=75 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.58 GPA, 85.5% A/AB (n=131 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify and analyze within their social, cultural and economic contexts key historical issues, and their significance, in the history of the idea of race as it relates to scientific and medical developments.

  • Develop an understanding of the mutually shaping interactions between ideas about race and perceptions of social hierarchy, health, illness and medical and anthropological categories.

  • Analyze the role of social factors like gender and class, among others, in shaping cultural realities related to race and body normativity.

  • Identify the role that scientists, physicians, patients, healthcare providers, scientific institutions and the state play in modeling, ideas about race.

  • Discern the impact of programs of global science as they intersect with international politics in the shaping of ideas about human rights, ethnicity, and race.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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Prerequisites

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AFROAMER/HISTSCI 275

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Professors

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2021: 3.66 GPA, 78.9% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2022: 3.62 GPA, 90.7% A/AB (n=75 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.58 GPA, 85.5% A/AB (n=131 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Medical and scientific constructions of racial categories.
  • Racial science in slavery and colonialism.
  • Roles of scientists, physicians, institutions, and the state in modeling ideas about race.
  • Intersection of global science, international politics, human rights, ethnicity, and race.

Skills

  • Analyze historical issues related to race, science, and medicine within social, cultural, and economic contexts.
  • Understand interactions between racial ideas and perceptions of social hierarchy, health, and medical categories.
  • Analyze how social factors such as gender and class shape cultural realities related to race and body normativity.
  • Discern the impact of global science programs intersecting with international politics on ideas of human rights, ethnicity, and race.

Grades

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About this comparison

1292 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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