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• HIST 100 Food and Public Health: Why the Brits Embraced White Bread 6 credits

  Food, health, medicine, public policy and the built environment… all were transformed as Britain industrialized in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This course explores how cultural, social and economic changes shaped the culture of food consumption during this transitional period. We also explore changing ideas in medical history and public health from the early modern to modern period. We will consider how our historical understanding can inform our views of the present through an academic civic engagement project that will connect students to Northfield communities.

  Held for new first year students

  • Offered: Fall 2024
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: AI/WR1, Argument & Inquiry/WR1 IS, International Studies
  • Prerequisites:

    Student is a member of the First Year First Term class level cohort. Students are only allowed to register for one A&I course at a time. If a student wishes to change the A&I course they are enrolled in they must DROP the enrolled course and then ADD the new course. Please see our Workday guides Drop or 'Late' Drop a Course and Register or Waitlist for a Course Directly from the Course Listing for more information.

  • Tags: ACE Applied CL: 100 level EUST Country Specific HIST Environment and Health HIST Modern HIST Early Modern/Modern Europe

  • HIST  100.06 Fall 2024

  • Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
  • Size:15
  • T, THLeighton 202 1:15pm-3:00pm

• IDSC 258 Consensus or Contentious? Controversies in Science Then and Now 2 credits

  Almost every global challenge confronting humankind requires some level of engagement with science and technology. However, finding solutions to our most pressing problems also requires an understanding of how science operates within its social, political, and cultural context. This course will explore the relationship between science and society by examining a series of controversies in science from both the past and the present. We will investigate topics such as biological and social concepts of race, the use of unethically obtained scientific results, the ethics of genomics research, legislation over vaccination mandates, “parachute” science, and climate change denial. Examining the role of science in society will help us understand issues related to the use of evidence, expertise, and the relationship between science and politics. By wrestling with current and historic scientific controversies, we will examine the ways in which scientific disagreements are often as much about values as they are about research methods.

  • Offered: Fall 2024
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: No Exploration
  • Tags: ACE Applied BIOL Elective CL: 200 level HIST Environment and Health

  • IDSC  258.00 Fall 2024

  • Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤 · Rika Anderson 🏫 👤
  • Size:15
  • WAnderson Hall 323 1:50pm-3:00pm