DC 472: Experimental Design

This course serves as the culmination of the Biorisks minor and the Dominican Curriculum. Based on what they have learned in the core courses of the minor, students will develop tools and strategies for ethical and equitable responses to biorisks. Students are encouraged to use this course to focus on their own interests while making use of multiple disciplinary lenses, including at least one value-focused lens. Students will produce a reflective e-portfolio, annotated bibliographies, a persuasive white paper written in such a way that the problem and response are articulated using a multidisciplinary framework, and a classroom lesson to be taught as an interactive case study that also explores how the biorisk and intervention or response might differentially impact diverse peoples and groups. In producing these things, students “close the loop” by which they envision a world in which we take responsibility for these risks and develop and evaluate concrete proposals for doing so.