Spring 2027

A History of Disease

Examines how disease operates politically, socially, culturally, and personally in American history, showing diseases as participants in the body politic rather than mere bodily afflictions.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2021: 3.00 GPA, 35.9% A/AB (n=39 letter grades); Fall 2022: 3.11 GPA, 66.7% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.59 GPA, 81.2% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Recognize how diseases and responses to diseases have shaped elements of American society and analyze the claim that disease is socially constructed

  • Discover and analyze how politics and diseases have intersected in American history

  • Describe and analyze how patients have shaped the medical responses, personal reactions and social meanings of disease

  • Recognize and describe how race, class, and gender have influenced the experience, meaning, and understanding of disease

  • Develop research skills to perform primary source historical research and analyze primary sources to develop a historical argument

  • Recognize and describe general trends in the history and the historiography of disease

  • Write a book review suitable for publication in historical journals

  • Identify and analyze historical arguments in historical monographs

  • Sharpen historical research skills and deepen analysis of primary sources in the service of an argument

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2021: 3.00 GPA, 35.9% A/AB (n=39 letter grades); Fall 2022: 3.11 GPA, 66.7% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.59 GPA, 81.2% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).

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Topics

  • The influence of race, class, and gender on the experience and understanding of illness
  • The shaping of American history by diseases
  • Disease as a tool of liberation or instrument of oppression and the consequences of medical labeling

Skills

  • Performing primary source historical research and developing historical arguments
  • Identifying and analyzing historical arguments in scholarly monographs
  • Writing book reviews suitable for publication in historical journals

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