Thread by @erikadyckhist

Stop us if you have heard this one: In 2019 2 medical historians and a biochemist decided to teach a course together.
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But the joke was on us. We taught a course on the science and history of infectious diseases in the midst of a global pandemic.
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Comedy aside, it was a challenging and exhilarating experience. We plan to do it again, preferably when the pandemic is a historical memory not a scientific crisis.

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Our goals:
- appreciate how science and humanities can work together.
- Understand history and science of disease, and cultural reactions

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Our goals:
- appreciate how science and humanities can work together.
- Understand history and science of disease, and cultural reactions

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to think critically…
ie, how can historical thinking help us understand vax hesitancy
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…and communicate effectively.
Ie. How can science be explained clearly?
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To think globally…
Students learned about scientific racism, colonial medicine, and Indigenous healing practices

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…and engage locally.
We also learned about scientific research in our own backyard and the resilience of local nurses, teachers, and front line workers in the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

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Highlights: Group Presentations that showcased cooperation across disciplines.
Role playing as scientists, historians, Indigenous elders, we worked together to think through a pandemic crisis.
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Highlights: joy and relief as we learned about the Covid Vaccines, and real-time discussions about how this moment will unfold, and be remembered.
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Stay posted for future offerings of HISTORY 237.3 at the University of Saskatchewan!
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