Fall 2025 HSTM Graduate Courses
HSCI
HMED
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HSCI 5211: Biology and Culture in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Changing conceptions of life and aims and methods of biology; changing relationships between biology and the physical and social sciences; broader intellectual and cultural dimensions of developments in biology.
Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for:
- HSCI 3211
Instructor: Mark Borrello
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: TTh 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM (75 minutes)
Location: Wulling Hall 240
Units: 3.00
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HSCI 5244: Nature's History: Science, Humans, and the Environment
We examine environmental ideas, sustainability, conservation history; critique of the human impact on nature; empire and power in the Anthropocene; how the science of ecology has developed; and modern environmental movements around the globe. Case studies include repatriation of endangered species; ecology and evolutionary theory; ecology of disease; and climate change.
Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for:
- HSCI 3244
Instructor: Susan Jones
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: TTh 09:45 AM – 11:00 AM (75 minutes)
Location: Bruininks Hall 530
Units: 3.00
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HSCI 8333: FTE: Master's
Prereq: Master's student, adviser and DGS consent
Instructor: None Listed
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: None Listed
Location: No Room Listed
Units: 1.0
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HSCI 8444: FTE: Doctoral
Prereq: Doctoral student, adviser and DGS consent
Instructor: None Listed
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: None Listed
Location: No Room Listed
Units: 1.0
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HSCI 8666: Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits
Prereq: Doctoral student who has not passed prelim oral; no required consent for 1st/2nd registrations, up to 12 combined cr; dept consent for 3rd/4th registrations, up to 24 combined cr; doctoral student admitted before summer 2007 may register up to four times, up to 60 combined cr
Course is repeatable for 2 completions and a maximum of 12.00 credits.
Instructor: None Listed
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: None Listed
Location: No Room Listed
Units: Units: 1.00 – 6.00
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HSCI 8777: Thesis Credits: Master's
prereq: Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 10 cr total required (Plan A only)
Course is repeatable for 10 completions and a maximum of 50.00 credits.
Instructor: None Listed
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: None Listed
Location: No Room Listed
Units: 1.0 - 18.0
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HSCI 8830: Contemporary Topics in Historiography of Science, Medicine, and Technology
About: The seminar explores the emerging scholarship on the history of science, medicine, and technology. We examine how science, technology, and medicine have shaped the premodern and modern world, paying special attention to the influence of culture, gender, and economy. Topics include the revolutions and evolutions in scientific knowledge, circulations and degradation of knowledge, the social construction of knowledge and truth claims, innovation and maintenance, and development of medical institutions in societal contexts. We will read works by Michael Gordin, Donna Haraway, Sujit Sivasundaram, Eden Medina, Nathan Ensmenger, Warwick Anderson, and Ruth Rogaski, among others.
Instructors: Wayne Soon
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: W 03:35 PM – 05:30 PM (115 minutes)
Location: Shepherd Laboratory 576
Units: 3.0
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HSCI 8888: Thesis Credit: Doctoral
Prereq: Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required
Course is repeatable for 10 completions and a maximum of 99.99 credits.
Instructor: None Listed
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: None Listed
Location: No Room Listed
Units: 1.00 – 24.00
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HSCI 8920: Seminar: History of Biological Sciences
For advanced graduate students; topics in development of natural, biological, and medical sciences from Aristotle to the present.
prereq: instr consent
Course is repeatable for 2 completions and a maximum of 6.00 credits.
Instructor: Susan Jones
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: T 03:35 PM – 05:30 PM (115 minutes)
Location: ROOM-TBA
Units: 3.00
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HSCI 8950: Seminar: Science and Technology in Cultural Settings
For advanced graduate students; topics in development of science and technology in or across specific geographic regions or particular cultures.
About: This seminar examines the recent scholarship on the histories of information, data, and computing in a global context. Topics include historical concepts such as digital, simulation, model, and artificial intelligence (AI) and the prevalence of digital computing technologies in recent decades. We will discuss the social, political, and intellectual activities that prompted new ideas, techniques, interpretations, cultures, organizations, and professions relating to computers and computing from the Cold War era to the present. Readings in the course include chapters from Marie Hicks’s Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing, Eden Medina’s Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile, Fred Turner’s From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism, Paul N. Edwards’s A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming, Virginia Eubanks’s Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, and Rongbin Han’s Contesting Cyberspace in China: Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience. No Auditing. Meeting Location: Lind 402
prereq: instr consent
Instructor: Honghong Tinn
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: M 02:35 PM – 04:25 PM (110 minutes)
Location: Lind 402
Units: 3.00
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HSCI 8993: Directed Studies
prereq: instr consent
Course is repeatable for 15 completions and a maximum of 15.00 credits.
Instructors: Honghong Tinn, Jennifer Alexander, Susan Jones, Anna Graber
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: None Listed
Location: No Room Listed
Units: 1.00 – 5.00
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HSCI 8994: Directed Research
Course is repeatable for 15 completions and a maximum of 15.00 credits.
Instructor: None Listed
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: None Listed
Location: No Room Listed
Units: 1.0 - 5.0
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HMED 7500: Historical Research for Medical Students
This course is designed to acquaint third and fourth year medical students with the sources and the methods of historical research in medical topics and to allow them to undertake a short research project on a topic which they help design.
Course is repeatable for 2 completions and a maximum of 8.00 credits.
Instructors: Jennifer Gunn, Jole Shackelford, Dominique Tobbell
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: Independent study
Location: In Person
Units: 4.00
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HMED 8001: Foundations in the History of Early Medicine
History of Western medicine, from professionalization of healing in Greco-Egyptian antiquity to association of postmortem pathology with disease and clinical movement of early 19th-century Paris.
Instructor: Jole Shackelford
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting times: Th 03:35 PM – 05:30 PM (115 minutes)
Location: No room listed.
Units: 3.00
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HMED 8333: FTE: Master's
prereq: Master's student, adviser and DGS consent
Instructor: None Listed
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: None Listed
Location: No Room Listed
Units: 1.0
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HMED 8122: Contemporary Topics in Historiography of Science, Medicine, and Technology
The seminar explores the emerging scholarship on the history of science, medicine, and technology. We examine how science, technology, and medicine have shaped the premodern and modern world, paying special attention to the influence of culture, gender, and economy. Topics include the revolutions and evolutions in scientific knowledge, circulations and degradation of knowledge, the social construction of knowledge and truth claims, innovation and maintenance, and development of medical institutions in societal contexts. We will read works by Michael Gordin, Donna Haraway, Sujit Sivasundaram, Eden Medina, Nathan Ensmenger, Warwick Anderson, and Ruth Rogaski, among others.
Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for:
HSCI 8122
Instructors: Wayne Soon
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: W 03:35 PM – 05:30 PM (115 minutes)
Location: Phillips-Wangensteen Building 2-350
Units: 4.00
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HMED 8444: FTE: Doctoral
prereq: Doctoral student, adviser and DGS consent
Course is repeatable for 2 completions and a maximum of 12.00 credits.
Instructor: None Listed
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: None Listed
Location: No Room Listed
Units: 1.0
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HMED 8631: Directed Study
prereq: instr consent
Course is repeatable for 2 completions and a maximum of 12.00 credits.
Instructor: Jennifer Gunn, Jole Shackelford, Evan Roberts, Wayne Soon, Matthew Reznicek
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: None Listed
Location: No Room Listed
Units: 1.0 - 6.0
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HMED 8666: Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits
prereq: Doctoral student who has not passed prelim oral; no required consent for 1st/2nd registrations, up to 12 combined cr; dept consent for 3rd/4th registrations, up to 24 combined cr; doctoral student admitted before summer 2007 may register up to four times, up to 60 combined cr.
Course is repeatable for 2 completions and a maximum of 12.00 credits.
Instructor: None Listed
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: None Listed
Location: No Room Listed
Units: 1.0 - 6.0
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HMED 8777: Thesis Credits: Master's
prereq: Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 10 cr total required [Plan A only]
Course is repeatable for 10 completions and a maximum of 50.00 credits.
Instructor: None Listed
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: None Listed
Location: No Room Listed
Units: 1.0 - 18.0
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HMED 8830: Topics in Science, Technology, and Medicine
Contemporary Topics in Historiography of Science, Medicine, and
Technology
The seminar explores the emerging scholarship on the history of science, medicine, and technology. We examine how science, technology, and medicine have shaped the premodern and modern world, paying special attention to the influence of culture, gender, and economy. Topics include the revolutions and evolutions in scientific knowledge, circulations and degradation of knowledge, the social construction of knowledge and truth claims, innovation and maintenance, and development of medical institutions in societal contexts. We will read works by Michael Gordin, Donna Haraway, Sujit Sivasundaram, Eden Medina, Nathan Ensmenger, Warwick Anderson, and Ruth Rogaski, among others.
Instructors: Wayne Soon
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: W 03:35 PM – 05:30 PM (115 minutes)
Location: Shepherd Laboratory 576
Units: 3.0
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HMED 8888: Thesis Credit: Doctoral
prereq: PhD student who has passed oral prelims, Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required
Course is repeatable for 10 completions and a maximum of 99.99 credits.
Instructor: None Listed
Dates: Sep 02, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025
Meeting Times: None Listed
Location: No Room Listed
Units: 1.0 - 24.0