This concentration provides students opportunities to examine how inventions and innovations in technology, science, and medicine influence societal developments. Technological, scientific, and medical advancements will be studied alongside the policy and cultural ramifications. The global diffusion of these ideas and decisions offers students chances to make research comparatives. History majors involved in this concentration will consider cultural, political, national and global contexts to understand why technologies, scientific advancements, and medical breakthroughs were accepted, rejected, or ignored by societies.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize the interactions between cultures, economics, and politics with technologies, science, and medicine.
- Explain the interplay between the development of technology, science, and medicine at the nation-state level and global history context.
- Distinguish the similarities and differences between technology, science, and medicine within a historical worldview.
- Analyze primary and secondary sources from multiple research perspectives in order to demonstrate a comparative awareness of the global histories of technology, science, and medicine.
