Courses Handbook 2008 - [ Archived ]

310162 (v.1) Vaccine Science 632


Area: School of Biomedical Sciences
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 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: The vaccine paradigm - historical aspects and review of mechanisms of the adaptive immune response; contemporary vaccine use in controlling infectious disease - immunogens and their molecular nature, adjuvants, immunization methods, nature of immune responses elicited, efficacy, and potential hazards; contemporary vaccine production and regulation; new generation vaccines - DNA vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, vaccines against cancer; case studies - specific examples of vaccine development and use to illustrate concepts and principles (eg. HPV, HIV, influenza, smallpox, polio).
** 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: 060100 Medical Studies (Narrow Grouping)
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
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 2 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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