This is the Zoom registration option for this course.

Eugenics is a discredited yet still powerful belief that promotes improving human genetic quality by encouraging reproduction of people with “desirable traits” and/or reducing reproduction of people with “undesirable traits.” It has been at the heart of discriminatory social and immigration policies. Carried to extremes, it has been at the heart of genocide. We will examine the history of this belief, how it grew in global acceptance yet then rejected after WWII, and how we might see its ascendance again as technology is bringing us closer to being able to change and purposefully direct genetic content.

This course will combine lecture with class discussion.