Course Details

Invisible Killers: Infectious Diseases in Developing Countries

Spring 2009 - MCB 98/198 - Units: 2

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Every year, millions of people in developing countries die from diseases that are rare and easily treated elsewhere. This course will investigate the health concerns prevalent in these imporverished areas with a focus on infectious diseases. We will highlight a variety of bacterial, viral, and parasitic pathogens from a historical, social, and medical perspective. This course will discuss their molecular bases of infection and transmission as well as expore the history of these illness, discuss their underlying causes, and investigate different methods to alleviate these health crises.

This class will be based on lectures and documentaries, and students will be expected to participate in classroom discussion. Discussion will provide students with the opportunity to address their interests and explore novel ideas with their classmates.

By the end of the course, students will be expected to know the basic signs and symptoms, prevent, as well as how socioeconomic factors affect treatment, outcome, and spread of the disease. This course aims to challenge students to think critically about methods that can be used to solve these health issues.

Enrollment Info:

This course will start on 1/21/2009. If you are on the roster, but you do not show up for the first day of class, you will be dropped. If you have any questions, please send us an email!

Course Contact: meganlu AT berkeley.edu, j-tran AT berkeley.edu

Faculty Sponsor: Robert Beatty

 

Section	Facilitators	Size	Location	Time	Starts	Status	CCNs
	Y-Nhy Duong Megan Lu Jennifer Tran	—	160 Dwinelle	W 6-8	1/21	open	—

 

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