SOC GEN 105A
Ways of Knowing in Life and Human Sciences
Society and Genetics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Course 105A is not requisite to 105B. Introduction to study of epistemology to train students to recognize different ways of knowing what we know. In life and human sciences, instruments and methods are use to study, measure, and experiment. Exploration of how they are manifest in technologies that cut across disciplines to help students evaluate explanatory models, standards of proof, and qualitative versus quantitative studies. Explorations may include DNA sequencing, tissue cultures, bioinformatics, statistics, photography and cinema, charts, trees, and databases. DNA sequencing is used to study gene functions, evolutionary patterns, and disease and plays role in legal context to reconstruct aspects of human history or to trace identity of people. Databases play role in life sciences in administrative, commercial, and legal contexts. Photography is used in sciences and medicine (e.g., X-ray photography), as well as in art and forensics.
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Enforced requisite: course 5 or M71A or M72A.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
SOC GEN 105A
- SOC GEN 5Integrative Approaches to Human Biology and Society
- SOC GEN M71ABiotechnology and Society
- SOC GEN M72ASex from Biology to Gendered Society
3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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SOC GEN 105A
- SOC GEN 174What's Wrong with Science?
- SOC GEN 191RCapstone Seminar: Human Biology and Society
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.