Description: Lecture four hours; discussion two hours. Requisites: Life Sciences 7A, 7B. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 70 or Honors Collegium 70A. Provides historical and scientific perspective on field of genetic engineering with emphasis on social, legal, and ethical issues that arise from emerging new genetic technologies. Provides solid scientific foundation for field of genetic engineering, and puts genetic engineering into historic and social perspective so that students can make objective decisions about how this technology should be used in future. Course is highly interactive, team-oriented, problem-based, and teaches students how to think critically about experimental science, societal issues raised by advances in genetic engineering, genomics, and human reproduction. Includes interactive, media-oriented lectures with hands-on experiments and demonstrations, and seminar style discussions focusing on seminal articles in history of genetic engineering. P/NP or letter grading.

Units: 6.0