Human Biology and Diseases

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Course ID:	WF-OB-SUJANK2
Erasmus code / ISCED:	07.2 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (unknown)
Course title:	Human Biology and Diseases
Name in Polish:	Human Biology and Diseases
Organizational unit:	Center for Ecology and Ecophilosophy
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Subject level:	elementary
Learning outcome code/codes:	OB2_W02 OB2_W09 OB2_W12 OB2_U01 OB2_U09 OB2_U13 OB2_K07
Short description:	The aim of the course is to gain knowledge on the effects of human heredity, biological evolution factors to human health and disease.
Full description:	Course content: Elements of human genetics (4 hours) Principles of evolutionary medicine (4 hours). Concept of disease in evolutionary perspective (4 hours) Human metabolism, nutrition and evolution (6 hours) Reproduction and evolution (4 hours) Organism defence and evolution (6 hours). Human behavior and biological evolution (2 hours)
Bibliography:	Gluckman, Peter, et al. Principles of Evolutionary Medicine, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2014. Tessa M. Pollard. Western Diseases: An evolutionary perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Efekty kształcenia i opis ECTS:	Learning outcomes: With the use of the knowledge of human biology the student will be able to critically assess the information about the human health and disease, factors affecting human health, perception of health and disease, and will be able to suggest adequate solutions to problems. The student will be able to independently gain knowledge about factors of human health, will be able to find, evaluate and systematize information.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Methods of knowledge verification • Evaluation of semester work (2 short essays on chosen topics) – 40 %; final on-line exam (more extended essay) – 60 %.

This course is not currently offered.

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