Selected topics in biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, and
biotechnology involved in modern medicine. Includes cloning,
stem cells, endocrinology, human genetics, gene testing, and
human population genetics. Bioethical issues will also be
discussed. Both formal lectures and discussion sessions will be
utilized and students will write short essays on selected topics.
Athena Title
Biology for Medicine
Non-Traditional Format
Will include lectures, discussion groups, and seminars. There
will be ten hours in discussions/seminars per week for three
weeks, accompanying ten lectures per week. This course,
designed for the Maymester, will be taught at the UGA facility
in Cortona, Italy.
Prerequisite
(BIOL 1108 or BIOL 1108E) and CHEM 2211-2211D
Semester Course Offered
Offered summer semester every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will learn the integrated treatment of human biochemistry and covers selected topics on the biochemical bases of disease.
Students will have a fundamental understanding of the biochemical mechanisms operative in the normal function of the human body, and a grounding in the molecular and cellular basis underlying a number of human diseases, including infectious diseases, diabetes, cancer, and disorders of the cardiovascular and circulatory, metabolic, reproductive and early developmental, digestive, immune, neural, and muscular systems.
Students will learn problem solving communicated through writing on examinations, critical thinking, moral and ethical reasoning, and oral and written presentations.
Topical Outline
Basic biochemistry review, introduction of specific diseases and the molecular basis for pathology. For infectious diseases, the course will include a review of the pathogen biology (bacterial, protozoan parasites and viruses), a molecular description of host-parasite interactions, the immune response and how the disease is treated. For noncommunicable diseases like cancer, diabetes, heart disease, etc, the molecular basis of pathology will be discussed.
