Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course explores the role that developmental events (internal and external) play in health and disease, emphasizing their role in programming stress responding and metabolic processes across the lifespan. Students learn about underlying epigenetic mechanisms, environmental/sociocultural influences, disease processes impacted (e.g., stress-related and metabolic-related diseases), societal implications, and prevention/mitigation strategies. PREREQUISITES: NESC 2000.03 or PSYO 2000.03 AND NESC 2470.03 or PSYO 2470.03 CROSSLISTED: NESC 3271.03 FORMATS: Lecture