Enhancing Verbal, Analytical Reading and Writing Skills for Cancer Research

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Through lectures, group discussions and other active learning strategies, the students will strengthen the essential skills to understand scientific literature related to the topic of cancer and to write scientific essays. Special emphasis will be given to the development of skills, such as: verbal comprehension and discerning if research data and results are reliable. The course will also deal with scientific topics and research editing and writing skills. INTD 7995 - Complementary Practices for Health and Healing. Three to five (3-5) credits. The course gives an overview of various health belief systems in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and examines the current trends in the utilization of some of these practices and its implications. Specific therapeutic practices will be discuss ed. Information resources of natural products will also be reviewed. The paradigms in which biomedical model is based, its strengths and limitations will be discussed, as well as comparison with other healing philosophies and practices.