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  • 79 330: Medicine and Society

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course examines the history of American medicine, public health, medical education, disease patterns, and patients' experiences of illness from the colonial period to the present. Students read the voices of historical actors, including physicians, patients, policy makers, and researchers. In analyzing these voices, students will learn what was at stake for different sets of actors as they confronted diseases and struggled to explain and cure them.
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  • 79 331: Body Politics: Women and Health in America

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Women's bodies have been the sites of long-standing, and sometimes deadly, political battles. This course takes a topical approach to the history of American women's health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in order to understand why women's bodies have been such heated sites of struggle. It covers topics such as the history of contraception, abortion, menstruation, sexuality, female anatomy, rape, domestic abuse, menopause, pregnancy, and childbirth. It explores how American culture has constructed these issues over time, while also examining women's organizing around them. This course is open to all students.
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  • 79 332: Medical Anthropology

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course will explore the ways in which different cultures conceptualize the body and its relation to the physical, social, and supernatural environments. We will examine how illness and its causes are understood, investigating not only the beliefs and practices surrounding healing, but also the social position and training of the healers themselves. In order to understand the context of healing in cross-cultural perspective, we will problematize the boundaries between medicine and other arenas of social life: religion, politics, law, economics, etc. We will investigate issues of medical efficacy (what "works"?) by asking who or what is being healed in different kinds of medical practices, and we will consider the ways in which power and social control are exerted through medical discourses of various sorts. Finally, we will examine the history of medical anthropology from its "clinical" origins in international development, through anthropological critiques of clinical perspectives, to attempts to fuse clinical and critical approaches. Throughout the course, Western medical practice will be analyzed as one of many forms of ethnomedicine and ethnopsychology.
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  • 79 336: Environmental History and Politics Since Silent Spring

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course explores the development of the modern environmental movement and its impact on American politics since the publication of Rachel Carson's landmark study, Silent Spring, in 1962. It also examines the role of the state in creating and enforcing meaningful environmental regulations at a time when people were transitioning from a conservation approach to natural resources to a health or environment-based approach. Topics that will receive particular attention include toxic waste cleanup, river and drinking water regulations, water conservation in the west, agriculture, and the distinct interrelationships between urban and rural environments and their constituencies. This course is open to all students.
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  • 79 341: The Cold War in Documents and Film

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course is based on use of historical documents and films to study problems which reshaped the world during and after the Cold War. We will examine how documentary and feature films depicted the most important events of the Cold War, such as the Korean War, the construction of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban missile crisis, and others. In addition to films, sources will include documents, lectures and readings.
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  • 79 343: History of American Urban Life

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course examines the development of urban America during the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores the evolution of urban structure; the development and impact of urban technologies (transportation, water/wastewater, energy and communications); ethnic and racial change and class conflict in the city; and political and policy issues. It discusses alterations in American city structure and form through the walking city, the networked city, and the development of the suburbs.
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  • 79 344: American Consumer Culture

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Are you what you buy? Has shopping replaced working as the pursuit which brings meaning and value to our lives? This course examines how and why Americans came to define the ?good life? through the acquisition of 'stuff,? the pursuit of leisure activities, and the longing for material abundance, from colonial times to the present. Weekly readings, films, discussions, and essay assignments, will focus on the ways in which ordinary people have embraced, shaped, and resisted consumption and consumerism as a core ideal of American culture and life. Along the way, we will consider the following questions: What does it mean to say that the United States is a consumer society? If we are one, how and when did we become one? Does consumption liberate or imprison us? Specific topics include shoplifting, advertising, branding, boycotts, annual model changes, and consumer activism.
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  • 79 350: Early Christianity

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    In this course we examine the origins of Christianity. Although we deal with biblical, as well as other contemporary, materials, the approach is not theological but historical. We want to understand how and why Christianity assumed the form that it did by examining its background in the Jewish community of Palestine, its place in the classical world, its relationship to other mystery religions of the time and certain variant forms (now known as Gnosticism) which it assumed prior to the crystallization of orthodoxy.
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  • 79 351: The Ballet Russe (The Russian Ballet) and its Artists

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    The leading artistic position of the French Avant-Garde in the 1910? and 1920? was partly predicated on the assembly, meeting,collaboration and cross-influence of artists from all over Europe. The visual artists, musicians and performers brought with them specific aspects of their native heritage, therefore contributing to the enrichment of the general cultural scene. Paris with its cultural focal point the Ballets Russe became a melting pot of creativity.
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  • 79 352: Christendom Divided: The Protestant and Catholic Reformation 1450-1650

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    At the dawn of the sixteenth century, western Europeans still shared a common religion and identity as members of the Roman Catholic Church. Within less than two decades, this uniformity began to crumble, and the very fabric of western culture was irrevocably altered. By 1550, Europe was splintered into various conflicting churches, confessions, sects, and factions, each with its own set of truths and its own plan for reforming the church and society at large. This period of rapid and unprecedented change in western history is commonly known as the Reformation. Though this term has traditionally referred to the birth of Protestantism, it also encompasses the simultaneous renewal and reform that occurred within Roman Catholicism. This course will survey the Reformations of the sixteenth century, both Protestant and Catholic, examining the causes of the Reformation, the dynamics of reform, and its significance for western society and culture. In the process, we will analyze such on-going problems as religious persecution and the accommodation of dissent, the relationship between religion and politics, and the interactions between ideology and political, social, and economic factors in the process of historical change.
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