SEM 1 | T 15:30 - 18:15 | Frank W. Stahnisch | Outline | |||
Notes: All 500-level Fall term and Winter term History courses are restricted to History majors, ANME majors, and History graduate students until August 14. Few historical analyses and interpretations of Western science and medicine have been more politically and ethically charged than those concerning the nature and implications of the periods of German Imperialism ("Kaiserreich") and National Socialism ("Nationalsozialismus"). In this advanced undergraduate seminar, we will consider the development of science and medicine from the formation of the Wilhelminian Empire to Adolf Hitler's (1889-1945) downfall and the end of the National Socialist Period. This course traces the succession of different cultural and political contexts and analyzes changing patterns of academic self-understanding and morality from the Wilhelminian Empire through the Weimar Republic and the "Third Reich". |