Biology 100/103 - Concepts in Biology
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Rare Diseases Class Project

Are you willing to be engaged in your community through this class? In support of Rare Disease Day and in alignment with the course learning objectives, this project will allow us to do so.

Project structure and timeline

1.    Class discussion (weekly) for project planning, setting goals, team formation and teamwork

a.    Attendance in class is required for participation

2.    Each student involved in at least one project team, which could include:

a.    Communication/publicity

b.    Scientific content

c.    Fundraising

d.    Community outreach

e.    Event planning

3.    Project should culminate with a specific event where all class members are involved

a.    Target date: early December

4.    Everyone needs to learn the most important things to know about this disease

Project grading

1. Project counts for 100 points

a. 50% final event

- should support a specific cause/group or individual

b. 50% individual assignments

i. quizzes about this disease

ii. attendance during group discussion

iii. personal statement

Research

Research your disease. You may utilize internet sources as well as books, journals, newspaper articles and research papers.
- Science Direct: Online library of scientific journals (very broad database, but not everything is available as full text)
- Google: Probably one of the better search engines, for information as well as for images.
- Google scholar: a search tool that specifically looks for research papers on Google.
Print out one research article (full text) and bring it with you to your meeting with me.

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