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3.00 Credits
Medicine is currently a global phenomenon-disease in one part of the world can affect people across the globe in a matter of days. How does society seek to explain and cope with this circumstance One method is by telling stories that transform unpleasant realities into harmless fictions. What messages do these stories deliver about world helath and its consequences In this course, we will be the development of critical reading skills to allow students the opportunity to evaluate scientific and fictional texts and to make determinations about their relative reliability. DeTora
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3.00 Credits
This review of the history of spirits and our subsequent discussion of contemporary problems will help illuminate our cultural sentiment toward the production, distribution, and consumption of alcohol. The goal of this course is to instill a new perspective and attitude toward alcohol that encompasses the positives as well as the negatives as evidenced throughout history. Morton
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3.00 Credits
Nanotechnology has become the popular term to describe manipulation and manufacturing where the characteristic dimensions are less than about 1,000 nanometers, which is about 1/100 the thickness of a human hair. This course will develop the language and introductory scientific basis of nanotechnology and provide the technological foundation for discussions of ethical and societal issues related to its various uses. Wiesner
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3.00 Credits
Members of the scientific community have considered the potential threat of human-induced climate change for decades, yet only recently has this issue emerged in the consciousness of the broader society. This seminar considers the scientific evidence that has climate experts worried about the future, as well as the significant and global nature of economic, societal, and political-issues that human induced climate change raises. For valuable perspective on the fundamental linkage between the climate system and life on Earth, we draw upon the rich archive of information about past interactions between life and climate provided by Earths geologic record. Lawrence
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11.00 Credits
Why are we unable to plan and respond effectively and efficiently to a disaster This course explores the science, technology and psychology of these events. Through work with local municipalities and class work, it examines the organizational structure in place to handle these disasters from the president to local emergency management coordinators, the laws and how they both facilitate and impede a timely response, and the importance of adequate training, communication and a coordinated response. Elliott
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3.00 Credits
Pharmaceuticals provide an interface where science, technology, economics, and ethics interact, affecting our lives intimately. We will analyze complex issued surrounding drug discovery, development, testing, marketing, regulation, access, and distribution. Students will gain comprehensive understanding of guiding principles from initial R&D through to post-market follow-up. We will examine challenges - public skepticism about research, rising budgets, diminishing breakthroughs, escalating side effects, declining affordability and access - by identifying both beneficial and detrimental consequences of pharmaceutical innovation. Waters
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the publics perception of science and scientific research. How are controversies resolved in the scientific communities How are scientific controversies depicted in the media What techniques can partisans use to influence the public debate Gindt
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the critical behavior-research findings relevant to understanding how addictive behavior begins, is maintained and can be successfully resolved. In addition, the course will explore models of addictive behavior that have assisted in developing treatments that actually work. The course will also consider many addictive behaviors that are publically accepted (e.g., caffeine, alcohol, candy, exercise). The underlying neurological changes associated with addictions will also be explored. Finally, the ethics of current drug laws, penalties and treatments will be examined. Allan
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3.00 Credits
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette's syndrome, depression, eating disorders...This seminar introduces students to a wide range of texts (memoirs and first-person narratives, films, paintings, and medical and philosophical treatises) that focus on the experience of living with mental illness. Particular attention will be paid to the style and form of textual representations of psychological disorders, as well as to the cultural and philosophical questions such texts raise about the very category of "mental illness." Cefalu
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3.00 Credits
This seminar will explore the rise of modern America through the study of its major industries. A major focus of the course will be the entrepreneurs who employed new technologies to build the first powerful industrial corporations in the country and in doing so changed the course of world history. Businessmen such as Carnegie, Armour, Rockefeller and Ford will be central to the discussions. The everyday lives of the consumers, workers and immigrants impacted by industrial capitalism and the roles of urbanism, trade unions and socialist political organizations will be closely examined. The course will begin with the transformation in manufacturing brought about by the rise of the "American System" in Lowell, which employed women almost exclusively, continue through the age of steam and steel (with emphasis the central role of the Lehigh Valley region) and conclude with building of a new form of corporate capitalism as the driving force of the American economy. Tiernan
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