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Title: From Zeus to Zika: Epidem Dis
Course Section Number: CLA-113-01
Department: Classics
Description: CLA-113-01 = GHL-277-01 = HIS-210-01 From Zeus to Zika: A History of Epidemic Disease. Health is a universal concern: everyone gets sick at one time or another and we all seek healers in order to regain or maintain our health. In this way, we are much the same as the ancient Greeks and Romans. Take a journey through time to see what tools and methods the Greeks and Romans used to treat diseases that fell upon large populations (epidemic diseases), what these diseases were, and how the epidemics themselves and medical approaches to them have changed with new discoveries. Along the way, we'll study plagues in Athens and Rome, the Black Death of the Middle Ages, cholera outbreaks in nineteenth-century London, and contemporary epidemics like AIDS and Zika. Students will engage the material through discussion, presentations, short written assignments, and quizzes. This course is required for the Global Health minor.
Credits: 0.50
Start Date: January 14, 2019
End Date: March 2, 2019
Meeting Information:
01/15/2019-02/28/2019 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 02:40PM - 03:55PM, Detchon, Room 209
Faculty: Wickkiser, Bronwen

Course Status & Cross-Listings

Cross-list Group Capacity: 30
Cross-list Group Student Count: 25
Calculated Course Status: WAITLISTED
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