We encourage first-year students to take courses with us during their freshmen year, including departmental courses, General Education courses, and Freshman Seminars. Some courses to consider during AY 2023-2024:
Fall 2023:
- General Education 1116. Medical Ethics and History
- History of Science 100. Knowing the World: An Introduction to the History of Science
- History of Science 1441. Foreign Bodies: On Health and Migration
- History of Science 1458. Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: A History of Health Disparities in America
- History of Science 1735. Being Human since 1945
- History of Science 1821. Humans in Space: Past, Present, Future (formerly HISTSCI 181)
- History of Science 1833. Engineering East Asia: Technology, Society, and the State (formerly HISTSCI 183)
- History of Science 1894. Technologies of Empire: An American History
- History of Science 1980. Burning Books, Fighting Facts: How Individuals and Institutions Resist, Reject, and Destroy Knowledge
Spring 2024:
- East Asian Studies 170. Medicine and the Self in China and in the West
- General Education 1179. Psychotherapy and the Modern Self
- History of Science 1445. Medicine and Health in America
- History of Science 1829. The World We Made: Technology and Society
- History of Science 1861. From Steam Engines to Silicon Valley: Science and Capitalism in History
- History of Science 1910. Prison Science