Institutional Racism in Health and Science

Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS BI 126 or CAS BI 206/216 or ENG BE 209, and senior standing, or co nsent of instructor. - Graduate Prerequisites: MSc./PhD. program standing in Bioinformatics, or MSc./PhD. program sta nding in Biology, or MSc./M.A. standing in BU Wheelock, or consent ofi nstructor. - Traces the historical mischaracterization of race as a biological construct and the physiological manifestations of racism. Through the study of primary sources, students learn to discriminate between fact-based conclusions and unsupported pseudoscience and to construct empirical knowledge.