HIST261

Medicine in an Age of Empires, 1500-1800

An introduction to the broad shifts in European medicine of early modern period, a period that saw the extension of overseas empires and the emergence of medicine as a profession. The course offers a thematic and comparative look at the intertwined experiences of disease, empire, and global commerce that reshaped expectations of what medicine could or should do, for whom, and at what cost.

Fall 2025

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Past Semesters

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During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.76 between 81 students*

HIST261 Grade Distribution+-051015202530354045505560657075808590% of studentsABCDFWother
A-: 35.8%
A: 39.51%
A+: 13.58%
B-: 1.23%
B: 2.47%
B+: 6.17%
W: 1.23%
* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.