HONR299H

Cutting Edge Science: Understanding Current Scientific Issues

UH Shield
Course ID
HONR299H
Instructor
Boualem Hammouda
Semester
Fall 2020

“What is an exoplanet?” “What causes global warming?” “How does gene therapy work?” 

Scientific terms and topics appear all the time in contemporary news coverage, but what do they really mean, and why are they important? This course aims to clarify some of these ideas, and its main objective is to familiarize non-science majors with the most important and cutting-edge scientific issues today.

Time
TuTh 2:00pm3:15pm