Module: 3
Sponsoring Program: Graduate Division

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Course Number: GRAD 219
Course Name: Special Topics
Units: 3
Grading Option: S/U
Course Director: Antoine Johnson (Danne Duncan)

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Other faculty: D’Anne Duncan
Dates: May 10 - May 28
Schedule: 10am-11:30am, MWF
Maximum Class Size: 30

Course Description: This course will explore African Americans’ complicated relationship with American medicine. It seeks to contextualize health inequities from the antebellum period through the twentieth century, including medical experimentation on enslaved Black people to social and environmental factors exposing African Americans to premature death. The course will draw upon primary sources, book chapters, and journal articles on various subjects to be explored. Students will analyze the material and are encouraged to share their perspectives while discussing the material during class.