"Where is the fun and easy intro to BioChem course so that we can entice more people to become doctors?"
You wrote it tongue-in-cheek but I would honestly be interested in such a course. Many (most?) students enter college without a clear course of study in mind, and while the sciences and math require more work and discipline than, say, the much maligned English degree, that doesn't mean that the introductory coursework must be so dry and tedious as to scare away all but the most ardent students. If we want to encourage more people to get technical degrees, some "fun" courses could be a good tool.
I took such a course. It was called Bioterrorism and I took it at RPI while getting my Computer Science and Philosophy degree.
The course was mostly writing and discussions, with a lot of high-level talk about things like the factors (biological, chemical and social) that allow different diseases and ailments move, etc. Stuff like that. Quite fascinating, but not too technical.
It certainly lead me to buy more biology books. In fact, due to that course, two of my favorite books were written by biologists. Had I taken the class earlier, I might have become a biologist.
You wrote it tongue-in-cheek but I would honestly be interested in such a course. Many (most?) students enter college without a clear course of study in mind, and while the sciences and math require more work and discipline than, say, the much maligned English degree, that doesn't mean that the introductory coursework must be so dry and tedious as to scare away all but the most ardent students. If we want to encourage more people to get technical degrees, some "fun" courses could be a good tool.