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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Spring 2024 |
Registration ID | HISTH258B001 |
Course Title | Plagues, Diseases, and Epidemics in History |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | History |
Instructor | Hayton,Darin |
Times and Days | MW 11:30am-12:55pm
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Room Location | HLL106 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2785 COVID joins a long list of epidemics that have terrified people, upended our comfortable existence, and been the source of fundamental disagreements (about cause, treatment, and reality). This course examines the theories and strategies that people developed to explain the advent and spread of individual plagues. Outbreaks of the Black Death, the French Disease (syphilis ?), various fevers, and deadly diseases provide opportunities to examine how societies understand, categorize diseases, and attempt to control.; Enrollment limit: 25 Div: III; Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP); Social Science, B: Analysis of the Social World, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (; Hav: SO, B, A) |
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