HST 367 - Race, Eugenics, and Genetics in U.S. History

Institution:

University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

Subject:

Education

Description:

Prerequisites: Course not open to Freshmen Explores early twentieth-century social reformers’ efforts to improve American society by influencing human traits and behavior. Based on reformers’ ideas of desirable and undesirable human traits, proponents of eugenics sought to encourage reproduction among particular groups of people while discouraging others through such means as the promotion of birth control, immigration restriction, involuntary sterilization, and institutionalization of the “unfit”. Course examines racial, ethnic, and class biases as they intersected with ideas of biological determinism fueling the eugenics movement.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

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Institution Website:

www.umassd.edu

Phone Number:

(508) 999-8000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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