BIO 490 - Scientific Communication

Credits: 3

Description
A course designed to introduce students to scientific literature, to the health science library, and to scientific writing. This course will educate students on how to do an oral presentation using scientific information. This course will assist in filling the gaps of the traditional classroom (textbook) teaching versus utilizing scientific articles as a training tool. The discussion of a general scientific article will be digested to illustrate the importance of controls in science, to show how scientific questions are approached and addressed, stressing the importance of good writing skills, thus offering a forum for alternative hypothesis.