Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and analyze within their social, cultural and economic contexts key historical issues, and their significance, in the history of healing practices and public health.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Develop an understanding of the mutually shaping interactions between perceptions of health, illness and medical practices and culture and society.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Analyze the role of social factors, race, gender, ethnicity, class, among others, in shaping cultural realities related to body normativity, health, medical practice, public health and medical education.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Identify the role that patients, healthcare providers, institutions and the state play in modeling medical practice, ideas about the body, public health policies, and medical education.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Discern the impact of programs of global health as they intersect with international politics in the shaping of ideas about human rights, race, medical hierarchies and public health policies.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop critical thinking skills about medical history through discussion of readings, written exercises, and research projects.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. read and interpret critically primary and secondary source texts about religion, science, and medicine
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. access and utilize a variety of resources and methods for critical inquiry and research in religious studies, history of science and medicine, and science and religion
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. categorize, analyze, and compare core concepts in religious studies, the history of science and medicine, and science and religion, such as the conflict thesis; knowledge production; creation/evolution; eugenics; race; gender; embodiment; care; health/healing; capitalism; and progress narratives
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. identify, evaluate, and interpret the interrelationships and impact of religious and and scientific worldviews as related to health, bodies and communities
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. perform textual analysis, primary source research and synthesis of scholarly ideas, in persuasive writing, oral communication, active listening, and with critical empathy
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. create conversations about complex topics that seek academic excellence, honesty, and integrity
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. engage with the academic literature on religion, science, and medicine that is pertinent to the student’s specific research area and apply it to facilitate original primary source analysis
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Think critically about arguments.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Interpret complex texts accurately and analyze them logically.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Think critically about ethical issues.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of modern food systems.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of human and environmental harms arising from modern food systems.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the conversation about justice and health care as an enterprise incorporating moral philosophy, bioethics, and evidence-based social science
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Identify and clarify diverse moral norms and principles that underlie diverse convictions about justice and health care
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Subject these norms and principles to dispassionate critical reasoning aimed at evaluating the force of underlying reasons for and against them
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Write clear and concise essays subjecting issues concerning justice and health to dispassionate ethical analysis
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Write a clear and concise 15-page essay arguing for a novel thesis concerning justice and health.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and analyze within their social, cultural and economic contexts key historical issues, and their significance, in the history of healing practices in the West from antiquity to the emergence of biomedicine in the mid-¬eighteenth century.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Develop an understanding of the mutually shaping interactions between perceptions of health, illness and medical practices and culture and society in specific historical scenarios.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Analyze the role of social factors -¬‐race, gender, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation, among other in shaping ancient, medieval and early modern cultural realities related to health, medical practice and education.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Analyze and synthesize information, provide evidence—based interpretations about the past, and develop arguments regarding social and cultural differences related to medical concepts in ancient, medieval and early modern Western societies.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Identify the role patients, healthcare providers, institutions and the state played in modeling medical practice and education from antiquity to ca. 1750.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Analyze cultural assumptions, interpretations, and/or opinions relating to issues of body normativity, health practitioners’ hierarchies, medical education and medical practice in the historical scenarios studied.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Understand the different methodological approaches and research strategies that historians, anthropologists, and other scholars have used to examine the histories of the medicine from antiquity to the present.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize the utility of humanistic methods for the study of medicine and public health
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Develop critical thinking skills through techniques of close reading and written analysis
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Understand essential developments in the evolving relationship between medicine and public health in modern societies.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify major historical trends in the history of public health in the United States.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Understand the tensions between individual rights and population health as they have played out in the past.
Audience: Undergraduate

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

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

5. Evaluate the ways in which understanding the past history of public health can shape policy making in the present.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the conversation about public health ethics as an enterprise incorporating moral philosophy, bioethics, and evidence-based social science.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Identify and clarify diverse moral norms and principles that underlie diverse convictions about public health ethics.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Subject these norms and principles to dispassionate critical reasoning aimed at evaluating the force of underlying reasons for and against them.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Write clear and concise essays subjecting issues of public health ethics to dispassionate ethical analysis.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Write a clear and concise 15-page essay arguing for a novel thesis concerning public health ethics.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Gain knowledge about neurological and neuroscientific technologies and practices.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Gain understanding of major ethical theories and approaches.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Learn to employ philosophical methodology.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Utilize ethical theories and approaches, and philosophical methodologies to critically interrogate the ethical dimensions of the brain sciences.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Develop the skill of writing rigorous, analytical philosophical papers.
Audience: Graduate

6. Expand research beyond material learned in class to incorporate outside scientific and philosophical work.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Know the basic elements of the federal regulations for human subjects research (“The Common Rule”).
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Provide examples of a conflict between the Common Rule and ethical principles guiding human subjects research.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Develop a skeptical attitude about conventional wisdom on ethical and legal issues in human subjects research.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Write a critical analysis of an ethically complex research study.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize the utility of humanistic methods for the study of modern international health
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Develop critical thinking skills through techniques of close reading and written analysis
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Understand essential developments in the evolving relationship between global history, politics, and public health on a global scale.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Gain knowledge about ethical issues in healthcare
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Communicate precisely and concisely in both writing and speech
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Think critically about arguments related to ethical issues in health care with the aim of uncovering the truth
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Practice interpretive charity and intellectual honesty, which includes appropriate attribution to others of their ideas, and recognition and frankness about the limitations of one’s own ideas
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Independently locate and engage with the latest relevant empirical and philosophical research relevant to evaluating ethical issues in health care
Audience: Graduate

6. Exhibit substantial synthetic and analytic abilities in considering the ethical dimensions of ethical issues in health care
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply, analyze, or evaluate advanced theories, concepts, or methods in History of Medicine
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and analyze within their social, cultural and economic contexts key historical issues, and their significance, in the history of healing practices and public health in Latin America from the fifteenth century to the present.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Develop an understanding of the mutually shaping interactions between perceptions of health, illness and medical practices and culture and society in different Latin American historical scenarios.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Analyze the role of social factors -- race, gender, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation, among others -- in shaping cultural realities related to body normativity, health, medical practice, public health and medical education in Latin America.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Analyze and synthesize information, provide evidence-based interpretations about the past, and develop arguments regarding social and cultural differences related to health and body concepts in different Latin American societies.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Identify the role patients, healthcare providers, institutions and the state played in modeling medical practice, ideas about the body, public health policies, and medical education in Latin America.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Discern the impact of international politics, acting through European and American programs of medical research and humanitarianism, in the shaping of ideas about race, medical hierarchies and public health policies in Latin American and Caribbean nations.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Understand the different methodological approaches and research strategies that historians, anthropologists, and other scholars have used to examine the histories of the medicine in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Think critically about arguments.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Communicate precisely and concisely in both writing and speech.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Exchange reasons about controversial matters respectfully and with the aim of uncovering the truth.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Practice interpretive charity and intellectual honesty, which includes appropriate attribute to others of their ideas, and recognition and frankness about the limitations of one’s own ideas.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Independently locate and engage with the latest relevant empirical and philosophical research.
Audience: Graduate

6. Exhibit substantial synthetic and analytic abilities by considering how an application of modern biotechnology ethically compares to the status quo and to other possible alternatives.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Design scholarly research questions based on their knowledge of the existing literature
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Conduct original primary research by identifying, accessing, and interpreting appropriate sources
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Effectively convey the results of their research through writing or other creative media
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Work independently and manage a large project through to completion
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand current and past legal, political and social issues related to regenerative medicine. This includes laws and regulations, but also an understanding of clinical ethics issues, translational research and commercialization, and emerging, novel techniques requiring careful ethical consideration.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Understand more about relations of science, the state, and public, particularly around controversial or novel innovations and will learn how best to address emerging controversies and public concerns ethically in their professional careers.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Learn the guidelines for the responsible conduct of research for stem cell science, where to access regulatory and oversight documents, and how to apply for research protocols with ethics oversight.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Gain analytical skills for addressing policy, legal and social issues through research and writing exercises. Analytical and professional presentation skills will also be learned through classroom interactions and discussion.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply, analyze, or evaluate advanced theories, concepts, or methods in History of Medicine
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply concepts learned in coursework to real life situations
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Read and effectively search scientific literature
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Develop critical, analytical, and independent thinking skills
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Become familiar with major debates in the historiography of modern European medicine and public health
Audience: Graduate

2. Understand how to conduct a review of scholarly literature in a specific field within the modern history of European medicine and public health
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop understanding of the historiography of American medicine and public health.
Audience: Graduate

2. histories of public health in the United States in the last two centuries.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate understanding of foundational methods and principles of bioethics
Audience: Graduate

2. Clarify diverse moral values and principles that create bioethical dilemmas
Audience: Graduate

3. Critically assess these values and principles using analytical tools of bioethics
Audience: Graduate

4. Explicate others’ ethical claims and arguments clearly and concisely
Audience: Graduate

5. Write a clear and concise argumentative paper defending an ethical thesis bearing on a pressing bioethics topic
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze controversies involving ethical issues in the health sciences and related social institutions
Audience: Graduate

2. Engage in interdisciplinary discourse
Audience: Graduate

3. Describe controversial issues from multiple perspectives
Audience: Graduate

4. Construct a clear and concise ethical argument
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply, analyze, or evaluate advanced theories, concepts, or methods in Medical Ethics
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and employ narrative components such as plot, setting, characters, point of view, and tone
Audience: Graduate

2. Use narrative medicine skills in the context of clinical encounters and public health interventions.
Audience: Graduate

3. Express yourself in different modes (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, film, graphicnovels), and use both free writing and sustained writing techniques.
Audience: Graduate

4. Explain the connections between public health and individual experience, and the difference between viewing problems as personal problems vs public issues.
Audience: Graduate

5. Reflect on the meaning of health in the context of people’s everyday lives, especially people who are different from themselves.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate understanding of public health ethics as an enterprise incorporating moral philosophy, bioethics, and evidence-based biological and social science
Audience: Graduate

2. Clarify diverse moral values and principles that create various public health dilemmas
Audience: Graduate

3. Critically assess these values and principles using tools of philosophical analysis
Audience: Graduate

4. Explain others’ ethical claims and arguments clearly, concisely, and accurately
Audience: Graduate

5. Write a clear and concise argumentative paper defending an ethical thesis bearing on the practice of public health
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate understanding of U.S. health care policy and its implementing institutions
Audience: Graduate

2. Clarify diverse moral values and principles that underlie ethical debates about health insurance access, cost, and quality in the U.S. policy context
Audience: Graduate

3. Critically assess relevant ethical values and debates using tools of philosophical analysis
Audience: Graduate

4. Explain others’ ethical claims and arguments clearly, concisely, and accurately
Audience: Graduate

5. Write a clear and concise argumentative paper defending an ethical thesis bearing on an important dimension of U.S. health care policy
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the different humanistic approaches that fall under the umbrella of the medical humanities, and compare and contrast the strengths of these approaches for understanding health and illness.
Audience: Graduate

2. Apply techniques from the medical humanities to analyze literature, film, podcasts, and visual art.
Audience: Graduate

3. Locate one’s own experiences of health and illness in broader societal and historical contexts, and recognize how the meaning and experience of health might differ for people occupying different social positions.
Audience: Graduate

4. Critically examine harms caused by medicine and scientific research in both a historical and contemporary context.
Audience: Graduate

5. Identify the ways in which the experiences of marginalized people may frequently be invalidated by the medical community, and understand how the invalidation of personal experience can constitute both physical and structural violence.
Audience: Graduate

6. Translate the experience of bearing witness into specific actions, taken on an individual or societal level, to help alleviate suffering and promote human flourishing.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate understanding of the interplay between clinical ethics as an applied domain grounded in clinical practice, and public health as the pursuit of health and wellbeing for all members of society
Audience: Graduate

2. Critically assess how the public health principles of trust, interdependence, and distributional justice are affected by clinical ethics principles such as beneficence and autonomy.
Audience: Graduate

3. Clarify diverse moral and cultural values that generate various clinical ethics and public health tensions.
Audience: Graduate

4. Identify the ethically salient features of a clinical case and evaluate their implication on moral decision-making and public health outcomes
Audience: Graduate

5. Clearly and concisely articulate issues related to public health and clinical ethics
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and analyze within their social, cultural and economic contexts key historical issues, and their significance, in the history of the idea of race as it relates to scientific and medical developments.
Audience: Graduate

2. Develop an understanding of the mutually shaping interactions between ideas about race and perceptions of social hierarchy, health, illness and medical and anthropological categories.
Audience: Graduate

3. Understand how conceptions of race have influenced the medical and nursing professions, as well as medical institutions.
Audience: Graduate

4. Analyze the role of social factors like gender and class, among others, in shaping cultural realities related to race and body normativity.
Audience: Graduate

5. Identify the role that scientists, physicians, patients, healthcare providers, scientific institutions and the state play in modeling, ideas about race.
Audience: Graduate

6. Discern the impact of programs of global science as they intersect with international politics in the shaping of ideas about human rights, ethnicity, and race.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze evidence coming from a broad range of disciplines to discuss issues of public health as they relate to epidemics and immigrant populations.
Audience: Graduate

2. Describe clinical relevance of knowledge coming from disciplines such as history, anthropology, economics, sociology, and geography.
Audience: Graduate

3. Describe the cultural, social, and structural circumstances shaping the lives of mobile populations, and how such circumstances should inform clinical encounters with migrant communities.
Audience: Graduate

4. Describe circumstances that have shaped the health of immigrant populations, and governmental responses to epidemic diseases.
Audience: Graduate

5. Engage in policy discussions related to these issues.
Audience: Graduate

6. Demonstrate understanding of the historical links between ideas about race, epidemics, immigration, and public health policy in the United States.
Audience: Graduate

7. Critically engage with “Global Health” projects and how to identify the long history of colonial international medical humanitarianism shapes these initiatives.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Become familiar with major debates in the historiography of modern global medicine and public health.
Audience: Graduate

2. Understand how to conduct a review of scholarly literature in a specific field, or to produce an original research paper, within the modern history of global medicine and public health.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Read and effectively search scientific literature
Audience: Graduate

2. Design research questions based on coursework or literature searches
Audience: Graduate

3. Effectively convey research results through writing or other media
Audience: Graduate

4. Apply concepts learned in coursework to real life situations
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply, analyze, or evaluate advanced theories, concepts, or methods in Medical History
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply concepts learned in coursework to real life situations
Audience: Graduate

2. Read and effectively search scientific literature
Audience: Graduate

3. Develop critical, analytical, and independent thinking skills
Audience: Graduate