HIS 265 - The Black Death and Beyond: How Disease

This course is a global history of medicine and disease, from antiquity to the present. It investigates the manifold ways in which plague, smallpox, typhus, syphilis, typhoid, cholera, tuberculosis, scurvy, malaria, influenza, COVID and other diseases have shaped human history, from the Paleolithic era, to ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the medieval Christian and Islamic worlds, the Age of Exploration, the Industrial Revolution and beyond. It also explores how civilization and human activity (agriculture, urbanization, trade, imperialism, war, migration, medical and technological progress etc.) have, in turn, influenced the origins and course of diseases, and generated history's greatest epidemics and pandemics. Prerequisite: Complete ENG-101

• History
• 3 Credit(s)
• (3) Contact Hour(s)