Graduate Courses in Environment, Health, Technology, and Science
Graduate students at Ohio State have the opportunity to take seminars from leading experts in their fields working at the cutting edge of environmental history, the history of health, disease, and medicine, the history of technology, and the history of science. Below is a list, description, and frequency of commonly offered graduate seminars in these fields.
History 7700: Graduate Readings in Environmental History. This reading seminar is typically offered every autumn semester and its theme, scope, breadth, and depth will vary depending on the instructor's area of emphasis. Students will leave this course with an understanding of environmental history's key themes and relevant historiography.
History 7705: Graduate Readings in the History of Technology. This reading seminar will familiarize students with the key themes and relevant historiography in the field of history of technology.
History 7710: Graduate Readings in the History of Science. This reading seminar will familiarize students with the key themes and relevant historiography in the field of history of science.
History 8700: Seminar in Environmental History, Technology, and Science. In this course students will spend the semester devoted to producing a work of original research. This varies between students, but could result in a thesis or dissertation chapter, a conference paper or talk, a grant application, or a public history project.