Transfer Student Courses in University Courses These pages are no longer maintained. Consult the new Course Guide at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg_subjectlist/0,2030,8,00.html?show=20&termArray=f_04_1510&cgtype=ug This page was created at 12:38 PM on Wed, May 5, 2004. Fall Academic Term, 2004 (September 7 - December 23) Search Only the Transfer Student LS&A Course Guide (Advanced Search Page) Search the Full LS&A Course Guide (Advanced Search Page) UC 102. The Student in the University. Section 001 — Limited to MICHIGAN COMMUNITY SCHOLARS PROGRAM students. CLASS MEETS EVERY WEEK SEPT 7 - OCT 19 plus poster presentations on NOV 9. Instructor(s): Wendy Ann Woods Prerequisites & Distribution: Michigan Community Scholars Program participant. (1). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. Offered mandatory credit/no credit. Credits: (1). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will provide students with an opportunity to critically review their role in the university and as a Michigan Community Scholars Program participant. It will allow students to consider the expectations of their university experience within a framework of theoretical perspectives. It is hoped that students will develop a broad understanding of what their university experience can include and how they can shape it to realize their academic potential and intellectual development. The course will focus on the transition from high school to college, access to faculty, identity issues, critical thinking, social justice, and community service learning. The issues and challenges of living and working in a multicultural society will be examined. The large group discussions will focus on student perceptions, relevant research, and university resources. The small group discussions will focus on the readings and areas of practical concern. This course is open only to students in the Michigan Community Scholars Program. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. UC 105. Perspectives on Health and Health Care. Section 001. Instructor(s): Michelle H O'Grady (mmidwif@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Restricted to students enrolled in the Health Sciences Scholars Program. (2). (ID). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (2). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Perspectives on Health and Health-Care is the required core course for members of the Health Sciences Scholars Program. UC 105 and 106 together provide a contextual examination of professional roles and disciplines within health science and care, the science informing those roles, and the issues challenging professionals. These issues include the balance of "nature and nurture," health and the environment, technology and ethics, the allocation of resources, the relationship between personal autonomy and health, and the nature of human relationships within the system of health care. Practitioners from many disciplines within the health sciences will present case studies illustrating these themes. This content provides a foundation for professional involvement in health care and science by encouraging an informed consideration of the complexity of health, developing challenges, and the spectrum of health professions. Students will examine the major themes of the course by exploring the following questions: What are the relative contributions to human health and illness from genetics, behavior, and the environment? Should scientists develop, and practitioners utilize, technologic innovations knowing that this research and the use of the technologies will engender ethical dilemmas? At what point does our desire to provide the best possible health care to all persons conflict with the limits of our resources and other needs of society? What are the rights and responsibilities of individuals with regard to maintaining their own health, and how might these clash with the corresponding rights and responsibilities of health care providers and society? How do the norms and values of different health disciplines relate to the need to provide coordinated, collegial, evidence-based health care? How do these issues play out in students' consideration of their future professional lives? Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. UC 163. Biotechnology and Human Values. Section 001 — Meets with ENGR 100.500. Instructor(s): Matthew O'Donnell (odonnel@umich.edu), Miriam E Adam (mimiadam@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: First-year students only. (4). (NS). (BS). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Biotechnology combines the engineering principles of analysis, design, and optimization with the tools of cellular and molecular biology. It impacts nearly every aspect of our daily lives, from the food we eat to the medicine we take. The primary purpose of this course is to teach a basic vocabulary in biotechnology and expose students to the breadth of biotechnology and its impact on our daily lives. Topics will cover a broad range of applications in genetics, molecular diagnostics, molecular imaging, and clinical devices. A key additional component will be to investigate human values issues, such as ethical questions and cost effectiveness, arising from these technologies. Teamwork in the lab and through an independent project is emphasized. Report writing and presentations are required throughout the term, culminating with a final report and public presentation. Welcome! This course brings together students in the life sciences and engineering to explore basic issues facing biotechnologists. In addition to introducing basic sciences, this course will explore some of the dominant trends in biotechnology, not only in terms of their scientific and technological impact, but also in terms of their implications for human values. Our objective is to provide you with the real life challenge of designing a solution for a client and allow you to experience the complex dynamics that govern the design process in the interdisciplinary field of Biotechnology. The Lab Unique to this course are two hands-on labs: DNA analysis and molecular imaging. These labs will allow you to assess the efficacy and feasibility of existing technologies, as well as explore their suitability for a spectrum of social, political, and economic realities. The Project As another unique opportunity of this course, you will conduct an investigative study for a real client, the University of Michigan School of Medicine. Your project will consist of designing a test capable of detecting hereditary disease before the onset of symptoms. You will be assigned to a project team, which, in turn, will be assigned to a client physician. Your team will collaborate with the physician to determine how the prognosis of a target disease could benefit from genetic testing. This will require research into the genetics of the target disease, the disease process, treatments, and evaluation of the potential impact of early detection for the individual patient, health care management, and society at large. Given the needs of the patient and physicians, you will draw on your research and lab experiences to determine the most useful and appropriate methods for pre-symptom testing. This will require a quantitative, as well as qualitative, evaluation of your proposed technology and its effect on disease outcome, health care delivery, and patient quality of life. Course Organization and Resources This course is conducted by a multi-disciplinary team of instructors led by Professor Matthew O'Donnell. Your time in the classroom will be divided into biweekly lectures, a weekly lab and a weekly discussion section. In addition, each team will meet periodically with instructors in scheduled workshops held during evening hours. Deliverables will consist of technical assignments, lab reports, oral presentations, and a final formal oral presentation and report for our clients and other interested parties. In this course, we rely heavily on independent study, instructor-student interaction, and on-line resources. Topics addressed include microbiology, gene sequencing and expression, testing technology, statistics, ethics, legal issues, team management, technical communications, problem-solving strategies, and the design process. We conduct on-line discussions and provide a wealth of resources via our course website. This course is highly challenging and demanding, and our expectations are high. However, students who take the challenge seriously have the opportunity to experience that sense of achievement that comes from meeting and even exceeding their own expectations. For students interested in pursuing a degree in cellular and molecular biology, biotechnology, or biomedical engineering, this course is a must. Join us. We look forward to another high-powered semester. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. UC 201 / AERO 201. U.S. Aviation History & Its Development into Air Power. Instructor(s): Douglas J Goebel Prerequisites & Distribution: (1). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (1). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course traces the development of aviation from the 18th century — a time of balloons and dirigibles — to the present, and examines how technology has affected the growth and development of air power. In addition, this course traces the use and development of air power through World War I and World War II, the Korean and Vietnamese conflicts, employment in relief missions and civic action programs in the late 1960s, and employment in military actions concluding with Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. UC 261 / PSYCH 231. Brain, Learning, and Memory. Section 001. Instructor(s): Stephen Maren (maren@umich.edu), John Jonides (jjonides@umich.edu), Hylan Moises (moises@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Enrollment is restricted to first- and second year students. (4). (NS). (BS). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will survey integrative and cellular aspects of neuroscience with a focus on the neural mechanisms of learning and memory. It will include both a lecture and laboratory component. There are three modules, each to be taught by different faculty. The modules will each integrate knowledge of methodology, basic neuroscience, and the application of these to learning and memory. The modules are clinical neuropathology and neuroimaging, animal models of learning and memory, and synaptic and cellular mechanisms of learning and memory. The intent of each module is to present an integrative picture of the organization and function of learning and memory systems in both simple and complex nervous systems. Specific topics will include nonassociative learning (habituation and sensitization) in invertebrates, associative conditioning of motor and emotional responses in vertebrates, genetics of learning and memory, synaptic plasticity and learning, molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in learning and memory, quantitative and computation models of synaptic plasticity and learning, cognitive neuroimaging of human learning and memory, and clinical neuropathology of learning and memory in humans. The topics of the course will span many levels of biological organization from behavior to genomic regulation. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 UC 312. Community Projects in the Arts and Humanities I. Instructor(s): David Scobey (scobey@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: (3-4). (Excl). (EXPERIENTIAL). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3-4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. UC 312 is a project-based, experiential learning course in the arts, humanities and design in which students work in teams with community partners in Ann Arbor and Southeast Michigan to create history exhibits, community-based drama, websites, curricula, and other cultural resources. UC 312 is designed to be interdisciplinary and to include undergraduates at all levels. No previous expertise is required, only an interest in using the arts and humanities to enrich public life. Students may elect UC 312 for either 3 or 4 credits. While the nature of the work will vary according to the project, they will be expected to commit a total of 3 hours per week (whether in class, in the field, or in homework) for each credit hour offered. Weekly work typically will involve a variety of tasks, including research, meeting with community partners and UM team members, writing up results, and teaching or mentoring K-12 students. Students will be expected to play multiple roles to further the completion of the project. Each team will work under the supervision of a faculty Principal Investigator or a Project Coordinator. UC 312 entails two 90-minute seminar sessions each week, one for project meetings and one for general discussion. Students will study the dynamics of relationship-building with community partners, as well as assess progress and problems in actual projects. Additional readings provide occasions for students to reflect upon the role of public cultural practice in civic and community life, thus broadening their learning beyond involvement in specific community projects. Topics include cultural analysis, the role of the arts and humanities in theories of democratic citizenship, and public art and community-design initiatives such as Detroit's Heidelberg Project and Ann Spirn's West Philadelphia Landscape Project. UC 312 will require a student to do sustained work on a single project, including training and the completion of a final product, all of which will require significant use of research skills, public communication, and writing. In addition to the creation of "public goods" for their projects, students will be asked to write reflectively and analytically on the implications of their community work in terms of the issues raised in the class readings. Course expectations also include regularly attending class, doing the required reading, participating in class discussions, and completing a public presentation of writing assignments for both the project team and class meetings. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. These pages are no longer maintained. Consult the new Course Guide at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg_subjectlist/0,2030,8,00.html?show=20&termArray=f_04_1510&cgtype=ug This page was created at 12:38 PM on Wed, May 5, 2004. University of Michigan | College of LS&A | Student Academic Affairs | LS&A Bulletin Index This page maintained by LS&A Advising Technology (webmaster_saa@umich.edu), G255-E Angell Hall Copyright © 2004 The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA +1 734 764-1817 Trademarks of the University of Michigan may not be electronically or otherwise altered or separated from this document or used for any non-University purpose.