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INFD4108: Infectious Diseases Honours Project F
2023 unit information
Undertaking Honours in Infectious Diseases will enable you to be part of world leading medical research within the School of Medical Sciences. Your Honours year will include a 36cp research project giving you access to the latest biomedical technologies, whilst two 6cp coursework units will aid in the development of fundamental research and communication skills. Research in the field of infectious diseases examines how infectious agents interact with human hosts at the molecular, cellular, individual patient and community levels to cause disease. This includes understanding of the relevance of infectious diseases within the concept of ‘One Health’ in which the multifactorial interrelationships between human, animal and environmental health are critical. The structural and functional cellular and molecular mechanisms that enable establishment and progression of infectious diseases are an important area of study with a particular focus on pathogens: microbial virulence mechanisms; their capacity to evade the human response to injury and infection; their ability to cause tissue damage; their resistance to antimicrobial therapy; the development of new tools to control infectious agents and the epidemiology of outbreaks of infectious diseases within communities. Completion of the project aims to provide training in advanced scientific methodologies, technical skills and critical thinking skills. You will be expected to design and carry out experiments, collect and analyse data and to statistically evaluate your experimental results. The findings you obtain will be interpreted in relation to previous research done in this area and to the general field in which the work is relevant. On successful completion of the honours project you will have developed generic attributes of analytical and critical thinking, communication and laboratory research skills as well as an in-depth advanced knowledge of your chosen research topic.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Department of Medical Sciences
| Code | INFD4108 |
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| Academic unit | Department of Medical Sciences |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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INFD4107 and SCIE4999 |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. To conduct scientific research and write a thesis
- LO2. To conduct scientific research and deliver an oral presentation
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