Globalizing the science curriculum: an undergraduate course on traditional Chinese medicine as a complementary approach to Western medicine |
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Authors: | Yuan Robert Lin Yuan |
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Institution: | Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. ryuan@umd.edu |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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