Spring 2027

The Development of Public Health in America

History of U.S. health problems and solutions from the colonial period to the twentieth century, focusing on public health development.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.52 GPA, 73.9% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.54 GPA, 77.8% A/AB (n=45 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.59 GPA, 81.6% A/AB (n=38 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify major historical trends in the history of public health in the United States.

  • Understand the tensions between individual rights and population health as they have played out in the past.

  • Analyze the social, political, and cultural factors that have influenced societal responses to epidemics and pandemics in American history.

  • Develop critical thinking skills by engaging with both primary sources and secondary texts to understand how historians have written the history of public health.

  • Evaluate the ways in which understanding the past history of public health can shape policy making in the present.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.52 GPA, 73.9% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.54 GPA, 77.8% A/AB (n=45 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.59 GPA, 81.6% A/AB (n=38 letter grades).

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Topics

  • U.S. health problems and solutions (colonial to 20th century).
  • Social, political, and cultural factors in epidemic/pandemic responses.
  • Tensions between individual rights and population health.
  • Historical public health insights for present-day policy making.

Skills

  • Identify major historical trends in U.S. public health.
  • Analyze tensions between individual rights and population health.
  • Evaluate social, political, and cultural influences on epidemic responses.
  • Engage with primary and secondary sources to study historiography.
  • Assess how historical public health knowledge shapes current policy.

Grades

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About this comparison

1280 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.

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HISTSCI/MEDHIST 509 · Spring 2027

The Development of Public Health in America

Recorded 2026-10-14
HISTSCI/MEDHIST 509 · Spring 2027

The Development of Public Health in America

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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