Globalizing the science curriculum: an undergraduate course on traditional Chinese medicine as a complementary approach to Western medicine.
A course has been created to examine the ways in which China and the West have approached human health and medicine. Though fundamentally different, these two systems are complementary in a number of ways. This course is a model for a global science course in an educational initiative that incorporates Asian themes into science and engineering courses. The course is designed around an active-learning platform that has as major components: team research projects, oral presentations, role play, and peer-review. The students investigate concepts of scientific proof, clinical efficacy, and the functional structure of two very different systems of health and medical care.
Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. ryuan@umd.edu
Robert
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Yuan
Yuan
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Lin
D003479:Curriculum; D008396:Maryland; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D012106:Research; D012586:Science / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching; D014495:Universities