HSTM Graduate courses

HSCI courses - Fall 2021

HSCI 5211: Biology and Culture in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Description: 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. More info.
Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for HSCI 3211.
Units: 3.00
Dates: Sep 07, 2021 – Dec 15, 2021
Meeting times: TTh 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM (75 min)
Location: No room listed.
Instructor: Mark Borrello
HSCI 5244: Nature's History: Science, Humans, and the Environment
Description: 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. More info.
Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for HSCI 3244.
Units: 3.00
Section: 27406 001 LEC
Dates: Sep 07, 2021 – Dec 15, 2021
Meeting times: TTh 09:45 AM – 11:00 AM (75 min)
Location: No room listed.
Instructor: Susan Jones

HSCI 5401: Ethics in Science and Technology
Historical issues involving ethics in science. Ethical problems posed by modern science/technology, including nuclear energy, chemical industry, and information technologies. More info.
Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for HSCI 3401.
Units: 3.00
Section: 27991 001 LEC
Dates: Sep 07, 2021 – Dec 15, 2021
Meeting times: TTh 02:30 PM – 03:45 PM (75 min)
Location: No room listed.
Instructor: Honghong Tinn
HSCI 5993: Directed Studies
Description: Guided individual reading or study. More info.
Prereq: instructor consent
Units: 1.00 – 15.00
Dates: Sep 07, 2021 – Dec 15, 2021
Instructors: Sally Kohlstedt, Jennifer Alexander, Mark Borrello
HSCI 5994: Directed Research
Description: TBD More info.
Prereq: instructor consent
Units: 1.00 – 15.00
Dates: Sep 07, 2021 – Dec 15, 2021
Instructors: Anna Graber

HMED courses - Fall 2021

HSCI - Spring 2022

HSCI 5242: Navigating a Darwinian World
Description: In this course we grapple with the impact of Darwin's theory of evolution in the scientific community and beyond. We'll examine and engage the controversies that have surrounded this theory from its inception in the 19th century through its applications in the 21st. What made Darwin a Victorian celebrity, a religious scourge, an economic sage and a scientific hero? We'll look closely at the early intellectual influences on theory development; study the changing and dynamic relationship between science and religion; and critically analyze the application of Darwin's theory to questions of human nature and behavior. More info.
Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for HSCI 3242
Units: 3.00
Dates: Jan 18, 2022 – May 02, 2022
Meeting times: TTh 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM (75 minutes)
Location: No room listed.
Instructors: Mark Borrello
HSCI 5421: Engineering Ethics
Description: Engineering ethics in historical context, including the rise of professional engineering societies; ethical problems in engineering research and engineers' public responsibility; ethical implications of advanced engineering systems such as the production of nuclear weapons; development of codes of ethics in engineering. More info.
Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for HSCI 3421.
Units: 3.00
Dates: Jan 18, 2022 – May 02, 2022
Meeting times: MWF 10:10 AM – 11:00 AM (50 min)
Location: No room listed.
Instructors: Jennifer Alexander
HSCI 5611: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Rise of Modern Science
Description: Understanding the origins of our own culture of Modern Science in the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Newton's ambiguous legacy; science as wonder and spectacle; automata and monsters; early theories of sex and gender; empire and scientific expeditions; reshaping the environment; inventing human sciences; Frankenstein and the limits of science and reason. More info.
Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for HSCI 3611.
Units: 3.00
Dates: Jan 18, 2022 – May 02, 2022
Meeting times: MW 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM (75 minutes)
Location: No room listed.
Instructor: Victor Boantza
HSCI 5993: Directed Studies
Description: Guided individual reading or study. More info.
Prereq: Instructor consent
Units: 1.00 – 15.00
Dates: Jan 18, 2022 – May 02, 2022
Instructor: Mark Borrello
HSCI 5994: Directed Research
Description: TBD More info.
Prereq: Instructor consent
Units: 1.00 – 15.00
Dates: Jan 18, 2022 – May 02, 2022
Instructor: None listed

HMED - Spring 2022

HMED 8113: Research Methods in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Description: Introduction to sources, methods, and problems of research in history of science, technology, and medicine. Preparation of major research paper under faculty supervision. More info.
Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for HSCI 8113.
Units: 3.00
Prereq: Instructor consent
Dates: Jan 18, 2022 – May 02, 2022
Meeting times: Th 02:25 PM – 04:45 PM (140 minutes)
Instructor: Sally Kohlstedt

HMED 8135: Disease and Debility in History
Description: In this graduate seminar we will examine how concepts of disease and health have changed over time and across place. We’ll move from debates over the identity of the Black Death in 14th century Europe to the treatment of infectious diseases in Imperial China and colonial India, and to the contested diagnoses of AIDS and fetal alcohol syndrome in late 20th century United States. Along the way we’ll evaluate the different methodological approaches used by scholars to study the history of disease, and we’ll examine the ways in which social values, cultural assumptions, and political interests have shaped how diseases have been defined, experienced, and treated, and we’ll consider the role that diseases have played in the shaping of health care institutions, policies, and practices. At the same time, we’ll examine the processes of medicalization and demedicalization; colonialism, post-colonialism, and the politics of state-building; the ecological understandings of disease, environmentalism, and the politics of place; and the increasingly visible role of the politicized consumer and patient activist in late 20th century health care politics. More info.
Units: 3.00
Dates: Jan 18, 2022 – May 02, 2022
Meeting times: W 03:35 PM – 05:30 PM (115 minutes)
Instructor: TBD
HMED 8444: FTE: Doctoral
Prereq: Doctoral student, adviser and DGS consent
Requirements: Advanced Doctoral Student
Units: 1.00
HMED 8632: Directed Study
Description: TBD
Prereq: Instructor consent
Units: 1.00 – 6.00
Dates: Jan 18, 2022 – May 02, 2022
Instructors: Jennifer Gunn, Jole Shackelford

HMED 8666: Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits
Description: TBD
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
Requirements: HMed or HSci Doctoral Student
Units: 1.00 – 6.00
HMED 8888: Thesis Credit: Doctoral
Description: TBD
Prereq: Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required
Requirements: PhD student who has passed oral prelims
Units: 1.00 – 24.00