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Why You Are Not Dead: The Immune System and Disease


Course Description

Biomedical interventions that have extended lifespans with emphasis on therapeutics, vaccines, and other interventions. How biomedical research is done and can be critically evaluated. Introduction to the immune system, how it combats infection, and how immune dysfunction causes disease. Discussion of cutting-edge developments in disease and cancer prevention and treatment.


Athena Title

Why You Are Not Dead


Prerequisite

BIOL 1107 or BIOL 1107E or BIOL 2107H or permission of department


Semester Course Offered

Offered fall


Grading System

A - F (Traditional)


Student Learning Outcomes

  • At the completion of this course, students will be able to explain how biomedical research is conducted and translated into interventions.
  • At the completion of this course, students will be able to explain how biomedical research and interventions evolving from that research have extended human and animal lifespans.
  • At the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate a basic understanding of the functions of the immune system in disease prevention and disease causation.
  • At the completion of this course, students will be able to evaluate and interpret data relevant to immune interventions in biomedicine.
  • At the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of how immune interventions work, and how new findings are evaluated and incorporated into clinical care.
  • At the completion of this course, students will be able to communicate the current and future challenges in immune interventions in biomedicine.

Topical Outline

  • Why do you need an immune system and what do you need it to do?
  • How biomedical research is conducted, and its outcomes utilized
  • Cutting the immune system into digestible bites (innate and adaptive, cellular and humoral)
  • The core players in immunity

Syllabus