Physiology 591

Submitted by gsweet on Tue, 2017-10-03 00:13

This course is literature based discussion course that will cover both seminal discoveries in signal transduction as well as recent advances in the field.

Cancer Biology 554

Submitted by gsweet on Sun, 2018-01-07 14:24

This course is an intensive, action participation-based course covering the molecular and cellular biology of cancer (e.g. the 10 hallmarks of cancer). Teaching approaches include faculty lectures, student presentations on key concepts, and student analyses of important research papers. Grades are based on student participation and students ability to independently compose two Nature 'News and Views' type articles on assigned research papers.

Physiology 541

Submitted by gsweet on Thu, 2018-11-15 11:31

An introduction to the mammalian reproductive physiology for PhD, MS and senior undergraduate students who are considering a career in the biomedical sciences. 

*Cross listed with Psychology 532

Learning Health Sciences 610

Submitted by gsweet on Sun, 2022-01-02 12:15

Real health data is complex, often unstructured, at times inaccurate, inconsistent, contains missing values, and is organized for clinical care rather than to meet analytic needs. Learning from health data requires a solid grasp of data operations, data visualization, statistics, and machine learning, as well as an understanding of ethical and legal frameworks guiding health data privacy and security.

MedAdmin 7300

Submitted by gsweet on Tue, 2022-04-12 17:18

This course examines the history of race and racism in medicine and healthcare in the United States and is divided into five generally chronological modules: (1) Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality; (2) Racial Ideologies and the Construction of Race, (3) Racialized Slavery and the Paternalism of Care; (4) Race-based Medical Care and Civil Rights in the 20th Century; and, (5) Health Justice in the 21st Century. Each module will approach the history of race and racism in medicine across time to understand 1) how race and racism were foundational to the development of medicineand its va

Neuroscience 570

Submitted by ecwoods on Wed, 2024-09-11 11:26

This course covers functional neuroanatomy of the human nervous system, essential brain processing as well as neurologic disorders. Organizational principles, subdivisions into specialized regions, how the brain transmits sensory and motor information, and how the brain controls behaviors are emphasized. Each session begins with a learning objective-based lecture and is followed by either an observational laboratory experience (plastinated human brains) or a discussion.