{"id":28073,"date":"2025-03-05T09:23:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/bio-396-biology-and-society\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T13:23:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:23:46","slug":"bio-396-biology-and-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/bio-396-biology-and-society\/","title":{"rendered":"BIO 396: Biology And Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Instructor:<\/strong> <a href='mailto:sruhren@uri.edu?subject=Questions%20regarding%20Winter%20J%20Term:%20%20-%20'>Ruhren, Scott<\/a><br \/>\nA seminar course dealing with the impact of biological discoveries on societal questions and with the social influences that affect biological discovery. Discussion of original papers, magazines, newspaper articles, and books about various discoveries. (Seminar) Pre: Pre: junior or senior standing majoring in Biological Sciences (BS), Biology (BA) or Marine Biology (BS), or permission of instructor. (D1) (B4)<br \/>\n3 crs.<br \/>\n<strong>Schedule:<\/strong> Online<br \/>\n<strong>Start Date &#8211; End Date:<\/strong> 1\/2-1\/16<br \/>\n<strong>General education outcome:<\/strong> B4,D1<br \/>\n<strong>Course delivery:<\/strong> Kingston<br \/>\n<strong>Inclusive access fee: <\/strong>N\/A<br \/>\n<strong>Additional fees:<\/strong> No additional fees.<\/p>\n<a class=\"cl-button  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1909\/BIO-396-2023.pdf\" title=\"\">Syllabus<\/a>\n<p><a class=\"cl-button prominent\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/register\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn how to register<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A seminar course dealing with the impact of biological discoveries on societal questions and with the social influences that affect biological discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5152,"featured_media":24566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[46,49],"class_list":["post-28073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-undergraduate","tag-b4-information-literacy","tag-d1-integrate-apply"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28073"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29122,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28073\/revisions\/29122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}