Human body – an economic history

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Course ID:	3104-WHSNW-MKOP17-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.3 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0222) History and archaeology The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Human body – an economic history
Name in Polish:	Ciało – historia gospodarcza (blok: Świat nowożytny) (K1)
Organizational unit:	Institute of History
Course groups:	General university courses General university courses in the humanities
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	elective courses general courses
Short description:	The lecture will be devoted to relation between human body- especially stature and body mass - and economic development in the past.
Full description:	The lecture will begin with an afterthought devoted to various research perspectives in the history of human body: evolutionary biological and historical. The second part of the lecture will be devoted to biology of prehistoric populations and the role of hugner in human history. The third part will be devoted to the influence of industrial revolution on living standards and heath hazards related to abundance of food.
Bibliography:	Fogel Robert W., Harris Bernard, Sok Chul Hong (2011), The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700, Cambridge 2011 Komlos John, Snowdon Brian (2005), Measures of progress and other tall stories. From income to anthropometrics, “World Economics”, t. 6, s. 87-135
Learning outcomes:	To credit the course one has to: - be able to analyze BMI and social differences in stature; - be aware of health hazards related to contemporary civilization; - be able to explain the relation between economic development and the evolution of human body.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	To credit the course participants are to submit one summary of article devoted to economic history and pass a short final test.

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