SOC2710 — Epidemics and Society
This course meets MnTC Goal Areas 5 and 8.This course is intended to be a history of epidemics and their effects on western societies. It is a general education course for students interested in the history of epidemic diseases and concern for our preparedness as a society to meet new threats. The course begins with a brief history of medicine and the various interpretations of disease. It then focuses on plague pandemics and concludes with current epidemics and newly emerging and reemerging diseases. Epidemics and pandemics of focus include: Plague, Smallpox, Yellow Fever, Typhus, Cholera, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Polio, HIV/AIDS and hemorrhagic fevers.