Research Seminar in History of Asian Religion & Medicine

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This seminar focuses on the intersection of history, religion, and medicine in Asia. It is an upper-level, writing-intensive course that gives students the opportunity to learn research skills that are central to humanities research. The course will have different focuses in different semesters, depending on the research expertise of the instructing professor. Potential topics might include, for instance, history of yoga, history of Chinese healing practices, history of Buddhist approaches to medicine, etc. Regardless of the topic, the course will involve a series of exercises that teach research skills, building toward a final paper based on independent research.