Builds on concepts and principles from the basic sciences. Emphasis on pathological responses to illness and concepts of adaptation and the culturally sensitive analysis of genetic, physiological and behavioral deviations associated with ineffective human adaptive responses in compensatory and/or compromised health states. Prerequisites: general education courses/admission to nursing program. Corequisites: NURS 320, 330, 340. RN-BSN Option: Pre - or Corequisite: NURS 300.