HIS 195-01 & 02 - Introductory Special Topic: Comparative Herbal Medicine

2 credits (Fall Term 1 and Spring)

Comparative Herbal Medicine explores the historical and current use of plant-based healing practices across the globe, highlighting how and why various cultures have incorporated plants into their healing traditions. Multi-disciplinary in both structure and content, students will participate in makers’ labs, write short essays, and create a digital story that narrates either the use of a particular plant or the treatment of a particular condition across herbal cultures in history and the present.

Prerequisite: None.
Note: Fall Term 1 - sections 01 and 02
Instructor: Lewis