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HIST 228 Global History of Pandemics Units: 3.00
Choosing from the case studies of the bubonic plague, smallpox, influenza, cholera, tuberculosis, and AIDS, this course will help us understand how the history of pandemics is crucial to understanding the major turning points in global history, and how diseases can serve as a useful lens to understand the major currents of sociocultural history.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Level 2 or above.
Exclusion HIST 241/3.0 (Topic Title: Global History of Pandemics - Fall 2018, Winter 2020); HIST 402/3.0 (Topic Title: How Pandemics Shaped the World - Summer 2024).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and analyze the major pandemics in global history and describe the economic, social, and political consequences of each outbreak.
- Interpret the role that diseases and epidemics have played in shaping the course of human history and how disruptive forces of diseases have paradoxically contributed to globalization.
- Evaluate the role of pandemics in shaping the discourse of modern health care policies and public health care programs.
- Examine religious, literary, and cultural consequences of global pandemics, and describe how diseases have led to emergence of new genres of art and literature.
- Develop skills in active listening, note-taking, group communications, and critical thinking.
- Employ a diverse range of historical sources to formulate historical arguments and hone written communication skills through a variety of writing assignments.