SOC GEN M71A
Biotechnology and Society
Also listed as CLUSTER M71A: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
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From the registrar's catalog
(Same as Clusters M71A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Course M71A is enforced requisite to M71B, which is enforced requisite to M71CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Exploration of methods, applications, and implications of biotechnology and of ethical, social, and political implications as well as biological underpinnings. P/NP or letter grading.
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