MCD BIO 167Genetic Engineering: History, Science, and Applications in Medicine, Agriculture, and Law
Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology · 6 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Not open for credit to students with credit for course 70 or Honors Collegium 70A. Provides historical and scientific perspective on field of genetic engineering with emphasis on social, legal, and ethical issues that arise from emerging new genetic technologies. Provides solid scientific foundation for field of genetic engineering, and puts genetic engineering into historic and social perspective so that students can make objective decisions about how this technology should be used in future. Course is highly interactive, team-oriented, problem-based, and teaches students how to think critically about experimental science, societal issues raised by advances in genetic engineering, genomics, and human reproduction. Includes interactive, media-oriented lectures with hands-on experiments and demonstrations, and seminar style discussions focusing on seminal articles in history of genetic engineering.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: Life Sciences 7A, 7B.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MCD BIO 167
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
- LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 3 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.