- UCAS course code
- B940
- UCAS institution code
- M20
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
BSc Biomedical Sciences
- Typical A-level offer: AAA-AAB including specific subjects
- Typical contextual A-level offer: AAB-ABC including specific subjects
- Refugee/care-experienced offer: ABB-ABC including specific subjects
- Typical International Baccalaureate offer: 36-35 points overall with 6, 6, 6 to 6, 6, 5 at HL, including specific requirements
Course unit details:
Introduction to Virology
Unit code | BIOL21381 |
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Credit rating | 10 |
Unit level | Level 2 |
Teaching period(s) | Semester 1 |
Available as a free choice unit? | No |
Overview
Aims
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students will have an appreciation of:
• Viral structure
• The interaction of virus and host
• The mechanisms of viral replication in host cells
• Viral pathogenesis
• Immune response to viral infections
• Acute, chronic and latent viral infections
• Viral vaccines and anti-viral drugs
• Viral epidemiology
Syllabus
• What is a virus?
• Viral structure
• Viral genomes and replication
• Viral interactions with the host
• Acute viral infections
• Latent and persistent viral infections
• Viruses and immunodeficiency
• Viral vaccines
• Anti-viral therapy
• Viral evolution
• Emerging viral infections
• Zoonotic viral diseases
Teaching and learning methods
e-Learning Activity
This assessment will involve outlining the steps of the intracellular life cycle of a selected virus ranging from adhesion to the host cell to the release of mature virions into the extracellular environment.
Employability skills
- Analytical skills
- The students have to think about Duesberg's comments and analyse what they mean to select the correct facts from the literature to demonstrate that Duesberg's comments about HIV are wrong.
- Research
- The student has to use text books and journals to respond to the points raised in the assignment.
- Written communication
- 1000 word assignment in which the students have to respond to the nine assertions by Duesberg in which he claims that HIV does not cause HIV.
Assessment methods
Method | Weight |
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Other | 30% |
Written exam | 70% |
1.5 hour (closed book), on campus, written examination at the end of the unit.
Exam format – 1 essay from a choice of 5 (70%)
Duesberg E-learning assessment (30%)
Feedback methods
Study hours
Scheduled activity hours | |
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Assessment written exam | 1.3 |
Lectures | 22 |
Independent study hours | |
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Independent study | 76.7 |
Teaching staff
Staff member | Role |
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Nicola High | Unit coordinator |