Interdisciplinary

Sociology 264: Death and Dying

Term: Fall 2022

Professor: Deborah Gold

This class was about the process of aging and dying. We explored issues of physician assisted suicide, loneliness in old age, hospice care, religiosity and death and what death means. This class was important to me in the issue of engineering new medicines as it is important to think about what it means to prolong life, and at what point the being alive does not necessarily mean one is living. It also made me think about the significant technologies that have changed medicine and is most vital to saving lives, and where medicine will go in the future. 

International Finance 16636 (at University Carlos III Madrid)

Term: Fall 2023

Professor: Maria Urtiaga Guiterrez

I took this class while I was studying abroad in Madrid. This class was about what causes exhchange rates to rise and fall and how monetary policy can control it. I learnt  more about  international relations and how organisations like the EU function, as well as dependencies of poorer countires on the more stable, larger economies of richer countires. This class will enable me to engineer better medicines as finances are key to development of any project. This class had a very global perspective, which will be even more relevant as I hope to engineer better medicines specifically for global development. 

Proposed - ETHICS 287: Religion and Science

This class is about the interaction of science and religion from the middle ages, through the renaissance, to present day. Through taking this class, I hope to learn about the development of science through time and how societal norms and people in power influence scientific progression in order to better understand how society and science interact and what that means for new scientific research today.