Introductory biology (biol 200)
This course provided an introduction to animal physiology and plant biology. This was my favorite course within the biology series! We covered metabolism and energetics, structure and function of biomolecules, cell structure and function, and animal development. I was particularly interested in the animal development labs this quarter!
anthropology of popular culture (anth 360)
This course allowed me to create presentations, conduct ethnographies, and design art projects in a creative way to understand how anthropological theories can be used to analyze popular culture. In this presentation I discuss the commodification of blood in China after the economic reform in the 1990s. I explore how complex political and economic issues are expressed by the people through films and stories. I also create a fun class activity to explain the idea of financialization, commodity fetishism, and neoliberalism.