(Taken from the UC Berkeley Course Guide)
Course will discuss how the immune system resolves, prevents, or causes disease. A general overview of the immune system will be covered in the first five weeks followed by five weeks discussing infectious diseases including anthrax, mad cow, herpes, malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV. In addition, other lectures will focus on current immunology topics including vaccines, autoimmunity, allergy, transplantation, and cancer.
High school chemistry or Chemistry 1A and high school biology or Biology 1A. Biology 1AL is not required
Students will receive no credit for Molecular and Cell Biology 50 after completing Molecular and Cell Biology 102, C100A/Chemistry C130, or Chemistry 135. Spring only
3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week.