Course overview
This course aims to provide basic understanding of the immune system in health and disease. It will allow students to reflect on different aspects of innate immunity, adaptive immunity, and immune tolerance. This course will also cover the fundamental concepts of molecular virology and viral epidemiology.
Course learning outcomes
- Explain virus structure, transmission, and virus-host interaction
- Integrate viral epidemiology with control strategies
- Contextualise the functions and properties of different immune cells and organs that comprise the immune system
- Discuss the roles of innate and adaptive immune responses in health and disease
- Describe central and peripheral immune tolerance and how failure this process can lead to aberrant immune response including hypersensitivity reactions
- Demonstrate effective use of Gen AI to assess a topic of interest, critique the output, and synthesise a poster and presentation discussion of the topic
Degree list
The following degrees include this course