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general course list

The following is a list of courses offered at Northwestern that count toward the SHC adjunct major or minor. But please note that students may count other classes that do not appear here so long as they clear this with the SHC director. Among these courses are appropriate freshman seminars, junior-year tutorials, and professional linkage seminars, as well as myriad other courses offered for credit at Northwestern and in approved study-abroad programs. Two rules of thumb prevail: 1) the class cannot be a science class that offers a narrow, problem-set approach, and 2) the class must treat science, medicine, or technology in context.

• Anthropology 315: Medical Anthropology
• Anthropology 332: Anthropology of Reproduction
• Anthropology 370: Anthropology in Historical Perspective
• Anthropology 390: Topics in Medical Anthropology
• Classics 342: Early European Medicine
• Communications 229: Communication Technology
• Communications 329: Rhetoric of Science and Technology
• Economics 307: Economics of Medical Care
• Economics 318: History of Economic Thought
• Economics 323: Economic History of the U.S.
• Economics 370: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
• English 338: Studies in Renaissance: Literature, Magic, and Religion
• Gender Studies 250: Gender Issues in Science and Health
• Gender Studies 332: Gender, Sexuality, and Health
• Global Health 301-304: Various Global Health Seminars
• History 275-1: History of Early Modern Science and Medicine (17th and 18th centuries)
• History 275-2: History of Modern Science and Medicine (19th and 20th centuries)
• History 300: Law and Science: The History of an Encounter
• History 325: History of American Technology
• History 375-1,2: Technology: History, Society, Economy
• History 376-1: Science and Modern Society: Science and Utopian Thought
• History 376-2: Science and Modern Society: Science and Defining the Human
• History 377: History of American Medicine
• Philosophy 254: Scientific Method in the Natural Sciences
• Philosophy 268: Ethics and the Environment
• Philosophy 269: Bioethics
• Philosophy 325: Philosophy of the Mind
• Philosophy 326: Philosophy of Medicine
• Philosophy 352: Philosophy of Mathematics
• Philosophy 354: Philosophy of Natural Science
• Philosophy 355: Scientific Methods in the Social Sciences
• Political Science 204: Politics and Nature
• Political Science 371: Environmental Politics
• Psychology 340: Psychology and Law
• Religion 373: Religion and Bioethics
• Sociology 205: American Society: Health and Biomedicine as Human Concerns
• Sociology 312: Social Basis of Environmental Change
• Sociology 319: Sociology of Science
• Sociology 355: Medical Sociology
• Sociology 370: Topics: Preserving the Wild