Perspectives on the Human Body

Catalog description

This course includes additional online modules to support Institutional Priority Learning Outcomes and Career Competencies. The course offers an opportunity for students to apply critical thinking skills to various aspects of the human body and to gain experience in developing and presenting original arguments in oral forms. This course is designed to promote an interest in science through a better understanding of the human body. The organization, maintenance, and control of the body will be examined through the study of specific body systems in health and disease. Discussions will include the scientific process of investigation, cellular activity and cancer, basic concepts of energy and the digestive system, the relationship between structure and functions in the musculoskeletal system, and the role of hormones in regulating body functions. Students will learn how critically to evaluate information and keep current of the rapidly changing scientific world through news media and Internet activities.