teaching | Allison E. Mann

In this course, we will study the impact of diseases such as plague, smallpox, polio, rabies, and coronaviruses on human society – from their effects on populations to how they have influenced the course of history. We’ll identify social and cultural factors and conditions that influence or impede the rate of spread of contagious diseases. Additionally, we’ll examine several ethical issues that arise concerning the treatment of the sick and policies to halt epidemics, both in the past and today. A final section of the course will discuss the contemporary threat of emerging modern diseases.
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This course is the first in a two-semester sequence and covers an evolutionary approach to cells, cellular activities, genetics, and animal diversity.
Course syllabus.

In this course students learn about the impact of diseases such as rabies, plague, smallpox, polio, measles, and HIV on human society - from their effects on populations to how they have influenced the course of history. In this course we identify social and cultural factors and conditions that influence and impede the rate and spread of contagious diseases as well as ethical issues that arise concerning the treatment of the sick and policies designed to halt epidemics.
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Workshop covers the basics of R syntax, running loops, writing your own simple functions, and data visualization. Skills learned in the workshop are used to explore and summarize a large craniometric dataset (Howells 1996) with associated climatic data.
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Workshop covers basic python syntax, data visualization, data manipulation, and common python packages for biological analyses including BioPython, Pandas, and the interactive python environment IPython
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