Molecules to Organisms (BIOM200) 

BIOM 200A/B | Every Fall Quarter | Time: 9:00 -11:00 am  
Day: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
First Day: TBD
Location: CMM East, Room 2047 
Course Directors: Kevin Corbett and Roger Sunahara
Units:  6

The primary goal of this course is to enable incoming students to transition from passive "fact-based" learning to an active, collaborative, and skeptical thinking and learning style necessary for success in graduate school and beyond. Through a series of eleven week-long modules taught by School of Medicine scientists and physicians, students learn to identify important open questions, design experimental strategies, and evaluate results critically.

In most modules, students immerse themselves in a different aspect of basic science and explore the links between research and human disease; in others, students will explore a few important experimental approaches that they may not have been exposed to during undergraduate classwork. During the course, students expand their knowledge of some key questions facing current medical researchers, and develop a framework for conceptual thinking to guide their own research projects.