Exploratory Courses

Spring 2024 Course Offerings

Consider these courses when building your schedule to further explore health and healthcare as a field of study and vocation.

Consult with your Academic Advisor when registering for courses to ensure your progress toward the completion of degree requirements.

T Th 1:15-3:15pm | UW2-211 | SLN: 10831 | MyPlan

This is a great option for any Pre-Health student (pre-pharmacy, pre-med, pre-dental, etc.). As a chemistry course, it will count towards your science GPA for med school and other graduate programs in health.

The course has no prerequisites or restrictions, so anyone can sign up! BCHEM 237 (Organic Chemistry I) and BBIO/BCHEM 364 (Biochemistry I) are helpful to have taken beforehand, but not required.

Topics covered include:

  • Overview of pharmacology as a discipline and career
  • Protein-drug interactions, binding, agonists, bioavailability
  • Pharmacokinetics: how drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and excreted
  • Drug effects on the central nervous, cardiovascular, and reproductive systems, and on other tissues / organ systems
  • Drugs for treating cancers, viral/bacterial infection, pain, depression, etc.
  • Drugs of abuse and toxicity

T 11:00am-1:00pm | Hybrid/UW1-051 | SLN: 11164 | MyPlan

Provides an introduction to the principle of public health with exploration of the frameworks, tools, and evidence base that guides disease prevention and health promotion efforts. Consideration given to ethical and public policy issues important to ensuring the fair distribution of resources.

W 3:30-5:20pm | HST T733 (Seattle campus) | SLN: 18276 | MyPlan

NOTE: Seattle course which requires cross-campus enrollment

Future-oriented overview of important concepts in dental science, contemporary modes of patient treatment, and dental-care delivery systems. Provides exposure to dentistry as a career and prerequisite materials in oral anatomy, epidemiology, and other basic sciences subjects. Open to all second-, third, and fourth-year undergraduate students.