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Click in the square for
details (Click here for printable
PDF
of our schedule.)
- Book chapter assignments.
- Reference to online readings.
- Due date on projects and final paper.
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Week 1: Introduction Randy Newman, Peopling
America |
Week 2: Population genetics, drift,
bottle neck, Red Queen, Herd
diseases |
Week 3: Emergence of infectious disease and
pathogenicity, methods of injury |
Week 4:
Emergence of infectious disease
and
pathogenicity, methods of injury
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Week 5:
Epidemiology
past & present, methods,
print the first project which is due next week |
Week 6:
European contact,
experience with disease
FIRST PROJECT
and
PAPER TOPIC
due this week |
Week 7:
Native health, unique susceptibilities, herd immunity |
Week 8:
Modified environment, our documentary sources |
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Week 9:
Smallpox and other 'poxes'
print second project which is due next week |
Week 10:
Measles and influenza, complications, 1918
SECOND PROJECT |
Week 11:
Plague and tuberculosis, 'herd' size |
Week 12:
Typhus and malaria |
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Week 13: Thanksgiving break (Yahoo!) |
Week 14:
Yellow fever and the problem of syphilis |
Week 15:
Population collapse, Disease & Colonialism FINAL PAPER DUE |
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