To: All Faculty & All Undergrad Students & All Grad Students
           <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "William T. Greenough" <wgreenou@s.psych.uiuc.edu>

Reply-To: jrjenkin@uiuc.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Science & Society: The New Biology Course Sp 2002

The Center for Advanced Study is pleased to announce that graduate and 
undergraduate students may apply to the instructors for admission to this 
course for the spring semester 2002.  This email contains two parts:  Part 
I. Course Description and Part II. Instructors and How to Apply


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I.  Course Description

The Human Genome Project and the knowledge resulting from it stand to 
transform fundamentally our understanding of how the human body and other 
living systems work.  Furthermore, decisions related to this new knowledge 
are likely to influence profoundly the future of humankind and other life 
forms on this planet.  We thus need to think very carefully about how we use 
the knowledge and tools that are becoming available to us.

In this course, taught as a discussion seminar, we seek to identify and 
envision the developments in the life sciences and medicine that promise to 
result from full knowledge of the human genome and other genomic sequences.  
Concomitantly, we will examine how this revolution in our knowledge of our 
genetic makeup is liable to intersect with other knowledge we have about 
ourselves, our institutions, our society, and our world.

Among the topics to be included in the seminar are:
	What's new about the New Biology?
	The New Biology: The view in 2002
	Actors and Interests in the Human Genome Project
	Eugenics: The New Biology of 1900
	Genetically Modified Organisms
	Xenotransplantation; Genetic Therapy; Genomics and Privacy
	Genomics and Race; Genomics and Behavior
	Biological Warfare and Bioterrorism
	The Remaking of Human Nature?

The seminar is open to juniors and seniors (enrolling in the course as 
Campus Honors Program CHP 295&D) and graduate students (enrolling in the 
course as CAS 487A).  Minimum prerequisite: at least one semester of 
college-level study in the life sciences.  Consent of the instructors 
required.  Class will meet on Wednesday from 3-4:50 pm at the Center for 
Advanced Study.
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II.  Instructors and How to Apply.....

Instructors:

Professor Richard Burkhardt--Department of History
Professor Harris Lewin--Department of Animal Sciences	and Director, the W. M. 
Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics

Course requirements include: regular participation in seminar discussions, 
at least one oral presentation, brief written assignments, and a term paper.

Admission to the seminar will be based on applications.  Interested students 
should submit a one-page application providing name, email address, year in 
school, major field of study, and a paragraph or two explaining why they 
want to take the seminar and what they hope to contribute to it and gain 
from it.   For full consideration, applications should be turned in by 12:00 
noon, Monday, November 12, 2001.

Submission of Applications:
	Undergraduate applicants for CHP 295&D are asked to turn in their
	applications at the Campus Honors Program,	1205 W. Oregon, Urbana.

	Graduate applicants for CAS 487 are asked to turn in their 
	applications at the Center for Advanced Study, 912 W. Illinois,Urbana.
This mailing approved by:
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research

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