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Human Diseases and Drugs (BIOL 1226)
Total Credits:
3
Lecture Credits:
3
Description:
This course uses active-learning and interactive strategies to apply and analyze principles of human diseases and their pharmaceutical treatments and link to ethical, social, and political debates. You will predict how genetics, social determinants of health, and lifestyle factors lead to changes in structures to change functions to cause diseases. You will compare and contrast commonly prescribed drugs. You will debate ethical, social, and political aspects of health. You will practice research-informed study methods for success in this and future courses. You will also follow disciplinary standards and the scientific method including making predictions/forming hypotheses, analyzing data to test predictions/hypotheses, and communicating results. This course includes a laboratory-like experience.
Topical Outline:
1. Genetic, epigenetic, lifestyle, and social determinants of health causes of injury to structures and functions leading to diseases of the digestive, nervous, cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, and reproductive systems
2. Commonly prescribed drugs (from list of 200 most-commonly prescribed) and pharmacogenetics of drug selection
3. Ethical, social and political issues related to diseases and drugs
4. Scientific method: write hypotheses, collect and analyze data to test hypotheses, communicate results, and propose future experiments
5. Active learning and research-informed learning strategies
Learning Outcomes:
1. Apply course concepts to new situations to predict how genetics, social determinants of health, and lifestyle factors lead to changes in structures to change functions to cause diseases
2. Compare and contrast commonly prescribed drugs
3. Follow the scientific method to write hypotheses, collect and analyze data to test hypotheses, communicate results, and propose future experiments
4. Practice research-informed study methods to apply and analyze biological concepts
5. Debate social, ethical, and political topics related to course concepts using multiple sources
6. Use disciplinary standards such as following directions and acting ethically
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