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THOMAS BROMAN

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Raw average: 3.80/5 from 20 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Quality 5/5Difficulty 2/5
Broman has been doing this for a while, and he has his lectures fine tuned. His class provides a good overview of medicine from the Hippocratic era to modern time, and it's interesting all the way. If you care to, you can get a whole new perspective and understanding from this class. If you don't, you can sneak through without much work.
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Quality 5/5Difficulty 3/5
Professor Broman is a great lecturer and is worth listening to, but his lectures are really more to supplement the extensive weekly readings. No exams, but a few essays that are focused on general concepts from lecture that require heavy evidence from the readings. Interesting class, good professor, depends on the TA experience.
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Quality 4/5Difficulty 3/5
Professor Broman was super awesome! I loved the 212 lectures, but really hated the discussion/TA experience, which was no fault of Broman's. The class was pretty easy and super interesting. Paying attention in class is pretty important, but the readings are more of what they're looking for in the papers (which is actually super frustrating).
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Quality 4/5Difficulty 2/5
I really enjoyed professor Broman's class. His lectures and most readings were interesting and insightful, however, you don't need to do most of the readings in order to write a good essay. I read most of them and the essays were straightforward. 3 essays, no final. Definitely recommend this class.
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Quality 3/5Difficulty 4/5
Professor was unhelpful in answering questions about essays. Readings assigned every week that are supposed to help in the essays, but I didn't read a single one and still got an A, so do what you will with that info. Interesting topics and lectures. 10/10 would recommend lol.
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Quality 5/5Difficulty 2/5
Professor Broman is definitely one of my favorite professors at UW. His lectures are fascinating and clear. I've gone to office hours just because he's an interesting person to talk to. The essays were graded fairly -- I wrote the first essay in a NyQuil fog and still got an AB (the TAs aren't heartless). Will take more classes with him for sure.
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Classes with THOMAS BROMAN

HISTORY 699 is a directed study course allowing students to conduct independent research under faculty supervision.

No offering record · Fall 2017

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Fall 2016–Fall 2016 · limited sample

This course surveys historical conceptions of the body as a site of sickness from Antiquity to contemporary medicine.

No offering record · Fall 2017

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Spring 2013–Fall 2017

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TermCourseTitle
Fall 2017HISTORY 699Directed Study
Fall 2017HISTSCI/MEDHIST 212Bodies, Diseases, and Healers: an Introduction to the History of Medicine
Spring 2017HISTORY 283Intermediate Honors Seminar-studies in History
Spring 2017HISTSCI 286Honors Seminar: Studies in Science, Technology, Medicine
Spring 2017HISTSCI 699Directed Study
Spring 2017HISTSCI 999Independent Work
Fall 2016HISTSCI 286Honors Seminar: Studies in Science, Technology, Medicine
Fall 2016HISTSCI 699Directed Study
Fall 2016HISTSCI/MEDHIST 212Bodies, Diseases, and Healers: an Introduction to the History of Medicine
Spring 2016HISTSCI 286Honors Seminar: Studies in Science, Technology, Medicine
Spring 2016HISTSCI 699Directed Study
Fall 2015HISTSCI 909History of Biology and Medicine
Fall 2015HISTSCI/MEDHIST 212Bodies, Diseases, and Healers: an Introduction to the History of Medicine
Fall 2014HISTSCI 699Directed Study
Fall 2014HISTSCI 720Proseminar: Historiography and Methods
Fall 2014HISTSCI/MEDHIST 212Bodies, Diseases, and Healers: an Introduction to the History of Medicine
Spring 2014HISTORY 283Intermediate Honors Seminar-studies in History
Spring 2014HISTSCI 286Honors Seminar: Studies in Science, Technology, Medicine
Spring 2014HISTSCI 699Directed Study
Spring 2014HISTSCI/MEDHIST 212Bodies, Diseases, and Healers: an Introduction to the History of Medicine
Fall 2013HISTSCI 699Directed Study
Fall 2013HISTSCI 720Proseminar: Historiography and Methods
Spring 2013HISTSCI 999Independent Work
Spring 2013HISTSCI/MEDHIST 212Bodies, Diseases, and Healers: an Introduction to the History of Medicine
Fall 2012HISTSCI 720Proseminar: Historiography and Methods
Spring 2012HISTSCI/MEDHIST 212Bodies, Diseases, and Healers: an Introduction to the History of Medicine
Fall 2011HISTSCI 720Proseminar: Historiography and Methods
Fall 2011HISTSCI 990Research and Thesis
Spring 2010HISTSCI 921Seminar-special Topics
Spring 2010HISTSCI 999Independent Work
Spring 2010HISTSCI/MEDHIST 212Bodies, Diseases, and Healers: an Introduction to the History of Medicine
Fall 2009HISTSCI 990Research and Thesis
Spring 2009HISTSCI 699Directed Study
Spring 2009HISTSCI/MEDHIST 212Bodies, Diseases, and Healers: an Introduction to the History of Medicine
Fall 2008HISTORY 283Intermediate Honors Seminar-studies in History
Fall 2008HISTSCI 280Honors Seminar: Studies in Science, Technology, Medicine
Fall 2008HISTSCI 999Independent Work
Spring 2008HISTSCI/MEDHIST 212Bodies, Diseases, and Healers: an Introduction to the History of Medicine
Spring 2007HISTSCI 921Seminar-special Topics
Spring 2007HISTSCI/MEDHIST 212Bodies, Diseases, and Healers: an Introduction to the History of Medicine

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