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Course Description: Selected topics from the natural sciences and their relation to society. [Satisfies non-laboratory requirement of Study Area IV.]

Section Description: We will investigate the potential impacts future biotechnologies may have on people and societies in the future. These will range from the personal—pharmaceutics, genetics, cloning, human augmentation—to the existential: what is the role of Homo Sapiens in the environment? What does our technology tell us about "human nature?" If people can synthesize biology, what is the meaning of "life"?