Session 2 Courses

Course Description:

This course will serve as an introduction to organic chemistry and its applications in pharmacology, providing students with a glimpse into the world of drug design and structure-activity relationship. Throughout the course, students will work their way through a set of commonly prescribed drugs, at first describing the atoms that compose them and eventually identifying the moieties that give them their therapeutic properties.

Course Description:

In this course, students will act as researchers solving the following problem: If you were to find a beetle-fungus symbiont pairing, how would you identify them and place them within existing lineages? In answering this question, students will learn topics in entomology, microbiology, and molecular methods. They will also acquire skills such as: how to identify insects, culture fungi, extract DNA, and create phylogenetic trees using molecular barcodes.

Course Description:

Do you want to be healthier? Are you genuinely interested in learning more about the food you consume? Are you aware of positive and negative sides of your food choices? Are you capable of reading food labels correctly? Are you interested in alternative foods proteins, processed or plant-based foods, GMOs, or Food allergies?  As the course description, it will be designed according to the principles of Food Science and Human Nutrition. The students will be aware of the differences between food science and human nutrition and how nutrition and food science are integrated with biological and chemical principles in our daily life. They will learn fundamentals food science touching upon food chemistry, food processing, food safety and food quality and the chance of their chemical and biological characteristics and nutritional value during their journey from field to fork. The students will be aware of nutritious and healthy foods and how they have an influence on our health.

Course Description:

Materials science combines a broad background of basic sciences and applies them through the lens of engineering and design. In this course, students will learn how to classify, design, and improve materials using an understanding of multidisciplinary sciences. They will connect their intuitive understanding of familiar materials – the fragility of ceramics, the conductivity of metal, the pliability of plastic – with scientific phenomena, such as the different types of atomic bonding, crystallinity, and electronic behavior, so that they may better understand the physical world around them. They will then use this knowledge to think critically about the materials they interact with every day – how they have been intentionally selected, designed, and processed for a particular purpose.

Course Description:

In this course, students will experience an in-depth exploration of the fascinating fields of astrobiology (life’s origin and life outside Earth) and space biology (effects of space on living organisms). Students will also acquire a comprehensive understanding of the origins, evolution, and future of life in the universe as well as develop critical thinking skills to investigate scientific questions and design experiments. This course covers a wide breadth of topics between the fundamentals of astrobiology to the practical real-life challenges of sustaining life beyond earth. These topics will be taught through a combination of engaging lectures, interactive activities, team projects, and guest speakers.