This unit will give you a broad and detailed understanding of the immune system and its functions. The curriculum includes both theoretical and practical sessions focusing on the structure and development of the immune system, antigen presentation and recognition, effector mechanisms involved in pathogen clearance, infectious disease and vaccines, immune disorders such as autoimmune disease,...

Bioinformatics is a core skill that is desperately needed by practitioners in the life sciences, from health to pathology and epidemiology to fundamental biological research. It is a discipline that brings together tools from mathematics, statistics, and computer science, to answer challenging questions that arise in the modern life sciences. The unit is aimed at those pursuing research in the...

The BEA471 Macroeconomic unit aims: to introduce students to some of the important recent developments in macroeconomics; to demonstrate how macroeconomists use macroeconomic theory, stylized facts and modelling framework to obtain quantitative answers to some very intriguing questions; and to provide students with some standard tools and models required to deal with the modern macroeconomic...

HMC219 is designed to further develop competence in intermediate spoken and written Chinese (simplified characters). The unit builds on students’ study in HMC101 and HMC102. It introduces new grammar and vocabulary as well as examples of real-world language use to develop their Chinese to an intermediate level. ...

This unit develops competence in advanced spoken and written Chinese (simplified characters). It is a workshop style, participatory language unit. The unit includes 1) discussions regarding grammar and 2) student and teacher-led exercises in speaking and listening, reading and writing. This unit builds on your previous study of Chinese in HMC101, 102, 219 and 220 to advance your competency in...

In this unit, students develop the techniques required for the design of surface vessels. They develop the conceptual and analytical skills necessary at a detailed level of ship design with a particular emphasis on design driver identification and initial parameter estimates and the effects of regulatory, practical and economic constraints on design. Students are also introduced to the concepts...

This unit extends the students' knowledge and experience of programming. It introduces dynamic data structures, foundational collection abstract data types, and computational algorithms and techniques. Programming is undertaken in Python and Java and topics include: references, memory management, self-referential data structures, abstract data types and their implementation, and an introduction...

In this unit you will be introduced to psychological knowledge which supports an understanding of the way individuals function in groups. You will learn about the major psychological models and theories, and methods used to conduct scientific investigations in psychology. You will also study how to conduct empirical research to examine phenomena such as memory, personality, and group behaviour. ...