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Mar 14, 2026
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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
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HS 226 Plague Times: Epidemics in History, From the Black Death to Covid-19
(4 Credits)
This course examines the history of epidemic diseases since the arrival of the Black Death in Europe in the 14th century. We focus on a number of key issues: the nature of the particular disease in question; how epidemics were understood and grappled with, in terms of contemporary cultural and medical understandings; which groups within society tended to be impacted by epidemics and why; the development of treatments; who and what were blamed for the outbreak of epidemics; and, ultimately, the accumulating legacies of all this as epidemics continued inexorably to break out over the 750-year period we cover.
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