Topics
Special topics or new approaches of current interest to the instructor. This course counts as a 300-level history elective. Students may repeat the course for credit when the topic changes.
Outcomes: Students will gain familiarity with the topic; the ability to make connections between secondary and primary sources; and the capacity to think critically about the ways that historians have approached major issues.
Research Sem Eating Disorders
Special topics or new approaches of current interest to the instructor. This course counts as a 300-level history elective. Students may repeat the course for credit when the topic changes.
Outcomes: Students will gain familiarity with the topic; the ability to make connections between secondary and primary sources; and the capacity to think critically about the ways that historians have approached major issues.
This class satisfies the Engaged Learning requirement in the Undergraduate Research category.
This is an interdisciplinary seminar in the history of psychiatry, focusing on a specific case study: the rise of eating disorders in the late twentieth century. The course will explore how specific diagnoses are developed within the psychiatric community, how they change over time, and how they circulate in the wider population. This is a research-intensive course, meaning that students will all engage in independent primary source research; the class will culminate in an original, analytic research paper as well as a symposium, where the class will present their research results to the public.
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