Principles of Indigenous Medicine

3 credits · Undergraduate

A holistic, two-eyed seeing course highlighting indigenous medicine’s principles in ceremony, concepts of health and wellness, biochemistry, ethnopharmacology, practice and discovery. This course introduces indigenous ways of knowing medicine, important natural products, their biosynthesis, the drug discovery process, synthetic biology and indigenous style formulations and medicine practices. PREREQUISITES: Recommend that students have completed the second year requirements of a degree program. Override permitted with instructor permission. CROSSLISTED: BIOL 4004 FORMATS: Lecture | Discussion | Experiential Learning