The Next Pandemic

Catalog description

Focuses on historic and modern disease outbreaks, in order to hypothesize what the next pandemic will be. We will ask what social, political, biological, and environmental factors led to historic outbreaks, what happened when we faced a new pandemic, and how can we prepare for the next pandemic? This course affords students the ability to critically examine and evaluate the principles of the scientific method, model construction, and use the scientific method to explain natural experiences and phenomena.