Emerging Infectious Diseases BIOL5432

  • Academic Session: 2024-25
  • School: MVLS College Services
  • Credits: 10
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Semester 2
  • Available to Visiting Students: No
  • Taught Wholly by Distance Learning: Yes
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No

Short Description

This course provides the opportunity to learn about emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases in the context of One Health. Using specific examples, the course aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to apply critical evaluation of the human and veterinary public health threats these diseases pose.

Timetable

Teaching will be delivered over 5 weeks online.

Requirements of Entry

None

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

This course is assessed 100% by written assessment, including:

1. An asynchronous assessed discussion board (70%). The maximum word count for this assignment will not exceed 1500 words. ILOs assessed: 1-3

2. A reflection following the discussion (30%). The maximum word count for this assignment will not exceed 500 words. ILOs assessed 1-3.

Course Aims

This course aims to introduce students to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, including factors and drivers that contribute to emergence/re-emergence and the role of the One Health concept plays in the prevention of emergence and response to novel emergences.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students will be able to:

 

1. By engaging with evidence base and literature, describe and critically assess and discuss ecological, environmental, pathogen, host and social factors that contribute to emergence and/or re-emergence of infectious diseases.

2. Critically analyse factors that led to emergence of contemporary emerging infectious diseases and apply this understanding to newly emerging and/or re-emerging infections.

3. Critically evaluate and discuss the role of the One Health concept in the context emerging/re-emerging infectious diseases, in particular its role in prevention of emergence and response to novel emergences.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.