Applications
Applications will open in January 2027.
Information Meetings
To learn more about the program, please attend an Information Meeting over zoom
Wednesday, November 18 at 7pm via zoom (https://pdx.zoom.us/j/88465425892)
Thursday, December 3 at 7pm via zoom (https://pdx.zoom.us/j/86174625109)
Classes
HON 407:
One course investigates the role of 19th- and early 20th-century British imperialism in shaping scientific and medical institutions, with attention to how knowledge production was historically aligned with colonial governance and economic extraction. Drawing on resources such as The Guardian’s Cotton Capital investigation, students analyze how slavery and empire contributed to Britain’s scientific and economic development and consider the lasting legacies of these systems in contemporary structures of medicine and science.
HON 407:
The second course extends this analysis into the present, focusing on rhetoric of health, surveillance, and protest in modern London. Students examine how institutions assert authority over bodies and populations, and how communities resist, negotiate, and reinterpret that authority. Across both courses, the central guiding question is how power is communicated through health systems and scientific discourse, and who has the authority to define, regulate, and contest those narratives.
Excursions
Teaching in London provides a critical experiential dimension, with cultural excursions to museums, archives, and historical sites that directly reinforce classroom learning and deepen engagement with the city as a living site of imperial and medical history. As the excursion schedule is finalized, we will post it here.
Program Costs
Program Fee: TBD
All Honors students accepted into the program receive a $2000 scholarship. Students are also encouraged to apply to the Gilman Scholarship.