CHEM 198 - Understanding Pandemics

In Understanding Pandemics, students will study the causes of pandemics, how they can be counteracted with vaccines and drugs, and how we can better prepare for them in the future. This course incorporates the study of biochemistry, biomedicine, virology, immunology, and public health. Students will also carry out virtual experiments. This course is open to students with minimal study in the sciences who need to fulfill the NS division requirement. It is also open to students with a substantive background in science.

Credits 4

Notes
From time to time, departments design a new course to be offered either on a one-time basis or an experimental basis before deciding whether to make it a regular part of the curriculum. Last offered Winter 2020.

Area
Natural Science

Division
Natural Science

Compass Attributes
Natural Science