HIST 1725 - DISEASE AND HEALTH IN MODERN AFRICA

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the history of health, healing, and disease in modern Africa, focusing on the social, political, economic, and environmental aspects of illness and health. The course also provides an orientation to the changing burdens of disease in Africa in the past 300 years. Seeking to understand change and continuity in Africans’ experiences of health and healing, how have historical processes shaped understandings of disease, misfortune, and illness? Within what contexts should health interventions be understood? How and when did health in Africa become a global issue?
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.

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