We have a couple of upper-division LAH 350 courses with availability.
LAH 350 # 30265 China’s Great Wall/Silk Rd Lit. TTH 2:00-3:30. We will waive the 60 hour pre-requisite so if you have sophomore or even freshman standing, and are interested go ahead and register. This is a new LAH class and we really want it to make!
LAH 350 #30273 Face of Justice TH 3:00-6:00(cross-listed with GOV 357M and WGS 345) has availability. Remember if you are a Government or WGS major or minor, it could count towards you major or minor and apply towards College Honors (aka Liberal Arts Honors).
Plan II also has a course they will allow LAHers to register for:
Plan II has seats available for junior or senior-level LAH students interested in taking a seminar course with Dr. David Oshinsky, an award-winning professor in the History Department. Course details follow. If you are interested in taking the course, please contact Mary Dillman in the Plan II Honors office: mdillman@austin.utexas.edu
T C 357 • History Of American Medicine
43455 • Oshinsky, David M.
Meets M 1200pm-300pm CRD 007A
Description:
The course will focus on the theory and practice of medicine in the United States from the 17th century to the present. Topics include our changing biological environment, the history of public health campaigns, the development of medical research, the role of the physician, and the impact of disease on American history.
Texts/Readings:
Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague
Judith Leavitt, Typhoid Mary
David Oshinsky, Polio: An American Story
Charles Rosenberg, The Cholera Years
Paul Starr, The Transformation of American Medicine.
Assignments:
Students will be required to lead one class discussion, write one book review, and write a term paper, approximately thirty pages in length, based largely on primary sources.
About the Professor:
Professor Oshinsky specializes in 20th Century U.S. political and cultural history. He was the Pulitzer Prize winner in 2006 in the History category for his recently published book, Polio: An American Story.