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Sammy
Basu PhD Professor
of History, Humanities & Public
Health c.v |
Office: ETN 310 Hours: TTh
9:00-10:00am (or by appoint) Willamette University 900 State St, Salem OR 97301, USA P: 503.370.6264 |
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IDS
101 |
Ranges from ancient philosophy
to contemporary neuroscience by way of C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters (1942)
and Don Dellilo’s White Noise (1984). Seminar. Short papers. |
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HIST
131W Demanding Democracy |
Reads from mid-17th
c. English political texts on democracy and authority and reflects on
democratic political and media ethics then and now. Seminar. Digital work. Short Papers. |
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Explores
Ancient to Early-Medieval European Intellectual Thought focusing on four
major figures: Plato, Aristotle,
Epicurus, and Augustine. Lecture. Short Papers. Exams. |
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HIST
241 Obey, Force, Share, Essay |
Explores
Late-Medieval to Renaissance European Intellectual Thought focusing on four
major figures: Aquinas, Machiavelli,
More and Montaigne. Lecture. Short Papers. Exams. |
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HIST
242 Fear, Appropriate, Feel, Doubt |
Explores
Early-Modern to Modern European Intellectual Thought focusing on four major
figures: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and
Hume. Lecture. Short Papers. Exams. |
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HIST
305W Dignify,
Resist, Synthesize, Struggle, Laugh |
Explores
Late-Modern European Intellectual Thought, focusing on five major figures:
Kant, Wollstonecraft, Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche. Seminar.
Term Paper. Exams. |
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Assesses
competing explanations for the failure of the Weimar Republic and for the
consolidation of the Nazi Third Reich, and considers insights for current
politics. Seminar.
Term Paper. Exams. |
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Introduction to Public Health |
Covers fundamental public health theories, concepts and
methods, and emphasizes evidence-based decision-making involving both quantitative
data and qualitative narrative. Local Practitioners Visit. Lecture. Projects. Exams. |
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Public Health Ethics |
Focuses on ethics, advocacy, and leadership in public
health theory and practice. Through case-studies students will practice
evidence-based ethical deliberation and advocacy. Seminar. Projects. Exams. |
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Death in America |
Approaches patterns of death as outcomes of
social injustice through case studies, such as the opioid crisis,
employment deaths, health care failure, and police killing. Seminar. Exams. Experiential or research work. |
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A writing-centered capstone course in which
students exercise and demonstrate their abilities to engage independently and
collaboratively in public health theory and practice. |
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