Module manager: Professor Michelle Peckham
Email: m.peckham@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
Satisfactory progression in any Level 1 course within the Faculty of Biological Sciences
This module is not approved as a discovery module
This is a module about human diseases, that combines lectures with in-course presentations by the students.
This module covers a range of human diseases, both inherited and environmentally linked.
On completion of the module students will be able to:
- Have an awareness of current knowledge about the diagnosis, basis, and treatment of human diseases;
- Describe the general principles involved in the study of human diseases;
- Assess web-based database, together with selected papers from the scientific literature;
- summarize the available data on selected human diseases;
- present summarized data clearly and coherently in oral communications and in written summaries;
- Plan time effectively to complete in course assessments;
- Work in a team to generate report and presentations, with internal critique within the group, decisions as to how to manage group task etc.
- Managing Knowledge: Sourcing / selecting / interpreting data; problem solving.
- Technical Competence: Analysing data; IT skills.
- Managing Self-Planning; Time management.
- Managing Interrelationships, Teamwork; Decision taking; Learning from others; Sharing; Receiving critique.
This module covers a range of human diseases, both inherited and environmentally linked.
These include heart and vascular disease, diabetes, neurodegenerative diseases, dermatitis, and diseases linked to diet deficiencies.
The basics of the different diseases will be covered in 10 lectures, and students will be allocated topics for further research and presentation as part of their in-course assessments.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Presentation | 5 | 1.5 | 7.5 |
| Lecture | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Private study hours | 82.5 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 17.5 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 100 | ||
- Lectures delivered online via Collaborate and monitored in line with standard faculty practice.
- Online group presentation and short individual report (per student)
- MCQ online exam.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Presentation | Group presentation* | 30 |
| Report | Each student to produce a short Individual report ( to be submitted in the morning of the group presentation) | 35 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 65 | |
• *As part of the group presentation, students will be asked to peer mark, and this will account for 5% of the total group presentation mark. We expect all groups, except those presenting to be engaged in peer marking. • Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
| Exam type | Exam duration | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Online Time-Limited assessment | 0.0 Hrs 40 Mins | 35 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Exams) | 35 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 12/4/2024
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