Health in America pre- and post-contact

Health in America pre- and post-contact is a Natural Science course taught by Pamela Stone.

This course satisfies Division I requirements.

Course Description
This course explores the scientific, archeological and anthropological information, as well as traditional knowledge and oral tradition, on conditions of health for indigenous people in North America prior to colonization and the changing landscape of health and identity through colonization for all post-contact. Topics will include methods used to reconstruct and understand health and diet for past peoples. In addition, a wide range of life cycle events are explored using information from ethnographic, archaeological and historic documentation to assess health and wellbeing. For example, what was it like to give birth in AD 1000 or 1700? What was it like growing up? How long did people live and what was it like to grow old? What changed in health after colonization?

Learning Goals

 * Multi-Cultural
 * Project-based
 * Presenting
 * Quantitative
 * Reading
 * Writing