| Responsible Department | Department of Basic Animal and Veterinary Sciences | ||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | BSc. 2 year | ||||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||
| Credits | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Level of Course | BSc | ||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination written examination Written Exam in Lecturehall All aids allowed Description of Examination: 4 hours written test Weight: 100% 7-point scale, internal examiner Dates of Exam: 27 January 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | The course will consist of lectures, practicals and journal clubs. | ||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 2 Week Structure: B | ||||||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||||||
| In the course the lectures will be focused on homeostasis, cardiovascular systems, nervous systems, endocrinology, immunology, stem cells and reproduction. The course will relate these physiological systems to animal life cycles, concentrating on the human and mouse. Adaptations to environmental challenges will also be covered in the course. | |||||||||||||||
| Teaching and learning Methods | |||||||||||||||
| The course consists of lectures, theoretical- and practical exercises and journal clubs. | |||||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||||
| The course will combine a broad coverage of animal biology with detailed description of those biological systems and processes that are most relevant to human and animal biotechnology. After completing the course the students will be able to: Knowledge: - understand the basic mammalian life cycle. - understand the concept of homeostasis. Skills: - read and interpret scientific journals and textbooks. - work accurately with biological data. - observe and interpret features in live animals. Competences: - explain adaptation to environmental variation. - explain resistance to diseases. - use biological knowledge to understand biotechnological achievements. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Literature | |||||||||||||||
| Vander's Human Physiology. The mechanisms of body function. Eleventh Edition. Eds. Eric P. Widmaier, Hershel Raff, Kevin T. Strang. McGraw-Hill Higher Education. ISBN 978-0-07-128366-3. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||
| Christopher Harold Knight, chkn@life.ku.dk, Department of Basic Animal and Veterinary Sciences/Physiology & Biochemistry, Phone: 353-32566 | |||||||||||||||
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