Biological Systems & Human Health

Catalog description

Designed to introduce the basics of human biology as a basis for understanding contemporary issues in heath and disease. Topics such as human physiology, cellular biology and Mendelian genetics will help students appreciate how the body maintains a healthy balance, and how disturbances of this balance underlie disease. Biomedical approaches to treating disease will be addressed, while discussing modern diseases such as diabetes, obesity, HIV and other infectious diseases, immune system disorders, heart disease and environmental health effects.