The N120 Series

Emphasis on collaboration and group work

Unlike the traditional lecture format, human biology places a high emphasis on group work and fostering a collaborative environment. Each quarter, you will have the opportunity to rotate to a new group and get to know more of your cohort. Exams will involve analyzing patient case studies and include an individual and group component.

Engaging activities, workshops, & presentations

Lectures are once a week! The rest of the week is dedicated to group activities, presentations, and occasional workshops with guest speakers. Past class presentation formats include mock physician-patient interactions, press and panel conferences on disease outbreaks, and rare case studies.

Evaluate patient symptoms and address global healthcare challenges

Explore the physiology and causes of intrinsic and extrinsic diseases as well as disorders of the brain to reach a diagnosis and provide treatment options. Understand the implications of socio-economic factors ranging from poverty and housing segregation to education and food security in relation to human health.

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N120A Global Intrinsic Diseases

N120B Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases

N120C Neuroscience and Brain Disorders

Following completion of the Human Biology Major, students will be able to…

  • Understand the physiology, causality and treatment options for intrinsic and extrinsic diseases as well as disorders of the brain.
  • Become familiar with concepts of residential segregation, global inequality, absolute & relative poverty as well as upward and downward mobility as they relate to human health.
  • Appreciate and be able to identify healthcare disparities based on perception, prejudice, bias, discrimination and ethnocentrism.
  • Synthesize information about patient demographics and presenting symptoms in order to reach an informed diagnosis.
  • Relate to the ethical considerations and dilemmas that face clinicians, research scientists and drug developers.
  • Evaluate healthcare risks and challenges as they relate to global economies, cultural opinions and environment.
  • Extrapolate information from clinical research publications and relate new findings to accepted knowledge.