Courses Handbook 2007 - [ Archived ]

310108 (v.1) Toxicology and Diseases 351


Area:

School of Public Health

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

3.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 

Lecture:

1 x 3 Hours Weekly
 

Syllabus:

A conceptual framework for toxicology and related impacts on human health from environmental and occupational exposures. It will develop knowledge and skills to identify environmental and occupational exposures of concern, reveal mechanisms by which toxicants initiate pathological dysfunction or disease, and identify interventions for the prevention of adverse health effects associated with environmental and occupational exposures. Topics include toxicological terminology, toxicokinetics, toxicodynamics,toxicological testing methods, environmental, occupational, biological monitoring, causes and prevention of adverse consequences to human health that may result from environmental and occupational exposures.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

061301 Occupational Health and Safety

Funding Cluster:

06 - Computing, Built Environment, Health

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Not Categorised
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2007 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y     Y  
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially
Online
Internal
refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully
Online
refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

 
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