There is a wide variation in emphasis ranging from business, social studies, public policy, healthcare and pharmaceutical research.
It is interdisciplinary and policy-oriented and was founded in 1970 by a group of Stanford faculty (Professors Dornbusch, Ehrlich, Hamburg, Hastorf, Kennedy, Kretchmer, Lederberg, and Pittendrigh).
Each chosen subject matter was spread over three-to-five weeks and included lectures, tutorials (discussion sessions) and labs.
It involved in-depth instruction in the chosen fields, reviews of relevant research literature, seminars and term papers.
[17] The Human Biology special degree course involves 3.5 (9½ terms) years of study in the Faculty of Medical Sciences and comprises three Parts.
A degree in Biomedical Sciences (BBiomedSc) at Otago is complementary to traditional discipline-based majors (e.g. Anatomy, Biochemistry, Genetics, Human Nutrition, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Physiology) currently offered within the Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree, but allows a wider diversity of health related papers to be taken.
This degree aims at producing graduates with a sound and comprehensive grounding in the key principles underpinning modern biological and medical research and their potential applications in biotechnology.
Biomedical Sciences is a combination of subject areas that promotes understanding of the scientific basis of health and disease in humans.
British universities are at the forefront of providing a broad-based undergraduate curriculum in all major aspects of human biology; although courses differ widely in their emphasis.